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Lab Support Specialist

PerkinElmer
Cambridge, MA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/20/2025 CLOSED ON 4/18/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lab Support Specialist position at PerkinElmer?

Responsibilities

Location Cambridge, MassachusettsUS Job ID REQ-054335

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.
  • Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of the job.

    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).
  • 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.
  • Job pace may be fast and job completion demands may be high.
  • Employee maybe required to manage hazardous wastes in compliance with company procedures & State / Federal / Local hazardous waste regulations. Duties may include : Identifying, handling, generating, accumulating, storing, labeling.
  • Ensure safety, security, and the environment in all aspect of the daily activities, and any potential safety hazards are addressed and corrected immediately.
  • Understand ergonomic relationship between people, equipment and working environment.
  • The annualcompensation 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.

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    Salary : $48,360 - $72,280

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