Responsibilities

• To be the first line of support for the scientific community; reporting any concerns and ensuring these are closed out in a timely fashion, i.e., acting as a single point of contact and helping ensure minimal disruption.
• Meet regularly with laboratory service providers to ensure open lines of communication and identify, review, and resolve issues in a timely manner and/or escalate as necessary.
• Be the point of contact for equipment maintenance in liaison with team and customer lab staff, facilitating scheduling and hosting of engineering visits for maintenance and/or repair.
• Support decommissioning of old instruments and related documentation
• Assist in the onboarding of new instruments, coordinating with applicable parties to ensure timely installation
• Be involved in improvement work linked to the assignment.
• Execution of regular inventory activities utilizing asset management tracking tools

Support your Team

• To work with Customer and PerkinElmer staff to ensure quality and compliance within the laboratory.
• Maintain lab documentation and coordinate archiving.
• To provide timely communication to lab users on impact of any site service work.
• May be required to cross-train and back-up other lab support areas.

Basic Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED
• 0-2 years of experience in a customer service focused role

Preferred Qualifications:

• Associates Degree preferred and pharma or chemical industry experience.
• Working understanding of GLP/GxP (desirable).
• Understanding of 5S principles (desirable).
• Experience within the pharmaceutical industry is desirable but not required.
• Understanding of chemicals and safe handling (desirable).
• A valid US driver’s license.

Other Requirements

• Ability to improve processes and drive continuous improvement.
• Strong verbal communication skills.
• Self-motivated and ability to work under pressure to balance conflicting deadlines.
• Aptitude for technical and practical matters.
• Experience working in a compliance driven environment.
• Service-orientated attitude combined with innovative thinking.
• Strong team player with experience in a high-quality customer service operation.
• Able to complete relevant paperwork according to principles of Good Documentation Practice.

Physical Demands

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position more than 25% of the time.
• The person needs to occasionally move between labs, corridors, adjoining rooms, and buildings onsite.
• Frequently use objects, tools or controls, which will require regularly bending, squatting, stretching and reaching in order to perform in a service function.
• Occasionally move or lift up to 25 pounds (potential for occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds).
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include without limitation, the ability to observe details at close range (within a few feet of the instrument/equipment), distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus in order to perform the essential service functions of this position.
• Occasionally operates a computer and other office machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
• Use of personal protective equipment (e.g., lab coat, safety glasses, etc.) in laboratory.

Working Environment

• Must be able to work in a laboratory, controlled environments requiring personal protective equipment (e.g., lab coat, safety glasses, etc.) in laboratory.
• Job pace may be fast and job completion demands may be high.
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position more than 25% of the time
• The person needs to occasionally move between labs, corridors, adjoining rooms, and buildings onsite Frequently operate on instruments, objects, tools or controls, which will require regularly bending, squatting, stretching and reaching in order to perform in a service function.
• Occasionally move or lift up to 25 pounds (potential for occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds).
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include without limitation, the ability to observe details at close range distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus in order to perform the essential service functions of this position.
• Occasionally operates a computer and other office machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
• Employee may be required to handle hazardous waste according to local, state, and federal regulations. Duties may include identifying, handling, generating, accumulating, storing and labeling hazardous waste.
• Potential risk to lab-based hazards including but not limited to extreme temperature, biological materials, and hazardous chemicals.
• May be required to complete Medical Clearance, Respiratory Protection Training, and Fit Testing to wear a respirator as protection against hazards present in the laboratory environment.

The annual compensation range for this full-time position is $48,360.00 to $72,280.00. The final base pay offered to the successful candidate will be determined by factors including internal equity, work location, as well as individual qualifications, such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.