Senior Equipment & Systems Specialist, Princeton/US

Pleased to meet you, we are Galapagos, a dynamic growing Biotech company with offices across Europe and in the US, headquartered in Mechelen, Belgium.

We’re in the business of changing lives. In our quest to discover and develop life-improving medicines we go where no one has ever gone before. In every challenge we face, we see new opportunities. We pioneer for patients. We need thought leaders and rapid thinkers, entrepreneurs in spirit and status quo-fighters. Collaborative innovators and perseverant idealists. We need the best-in-class. In other words, we need you: The ‘make-it-happener’.

For the Galapagos organization in the US, we are looking for a highly motivated Senior Equipment & Systems Specialist to join our team in a 12-month contractor role (with option for contract-to-hire conversion)

Scope of the job

The Senior Equipment & System Specialist will be responsible for initiating and maintaining the overall lifecycle of equipment located at Galapagos in its multiple decentralized facilities throughout the US.

Your role

• Carry out the deployment of new instruments within our Decentralized Manufacturing network
• Oversee and coordinate the qualification and maintenance of manufacturing and QC instruments
• Contribute to the qualification and maintenance of instruments by self perform
• Ensure data integrity and proper user management
• Review and assess technical documentation such as vendor IOQs and PQs
• Write equipment lifecycle related documentation such as Qs, OQs and PQs
• Support root-cause investigations for deviations, determine corrective actions and support implementation of change controls