Document and Equipment Specialist - Fort Dodge, IA

Pace Life Sciences

Pace makes the world a safer, healthier place. We advance the science of our pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical customers through the drug development process, from early-phase R&D through clinical trials and GMP commercial product support. For customers with in-house manufacturing and labs, Pace provides professional services to support their operations.

Note: This position is expected to last 6-9 months

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Job Overview: This position provides document management and equipment management support to the R&D department and supporting functions. Primary responsibilities include document management as well as serving as assisting in equipment management. In addition to those responsibilities, this role will support assignments as directed by the R&D lead team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Equipment Management Support:
• Assist Equipment Management Lead in ensuring inventory of current equipment is maintained, updating inventory to reflect additional equipment, ensuring frequencies of maintenance/calibration are accurate, and additional tasks as assigned.
• Perform physical inventory in laboratory to reconcile current equipment list
• Communicate any discrepancies on sheet to the Equipment Management Lead.
• Ensure discrepancies are updated in Equipment Management Systems.
  Document Management:
• Work in the Quality System to ensure verbiage in Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) reflect changes outlined in current CAPA's and Quality initiatives, maintaining compliance with internal procedures and regulatory standards.
• Perform editing, collaborate with teams to reconcile annotations, and ensure documents are completed and effective according to timelines.
• Ensure all equipment has appropriate documentation, the documentation has the appropriate maintenance and calibration/verification listed, as well as any additional action items associated with gap assessments.
• Collaborate with Lead Team to perform any additional document updates required to support Quality Initiatives.

Required Background/Experience:

• High School Diploma and 5 years of relevant document management experience required or Bachelor's or Associate degree with 2 years of document management experience preferred
• Scientific background
• Familiar with lab equipment such as Microplate Readers (e.g., Molecular Devices), Plate Washers (e.g., Biotek), Centrifuges - including both standard and high-speed models, Biosafety Cabinets, CO Incubators, Vi-CELL Cell Viability Analyzer, Sartorius Bioreactors, pH Meters, Glucose, Monitoring Systems, Cedex Bio HT Analyzer, AKTA Avant 150 Chromatography System, HPLC Systems, Refrigerators & Freezers (standard and ultra-low temperature), Octet Systems (for label-free biomolecular interaction analysis)
  Additional Preferences:
  * Ability to document procedures that are clear and easy to understand.
  * Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  * Strong organizational and planning skills; able to control the flow of documents and all processes efficiently.
  * Self-motivated and ability to work independently. Be an integral part of a cooperative team effort.