Senior Laboratory Instrumentation Specialist

🏗 We're Hiring: Senior Laboratory Instrumentation Specialist

📍 Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time

💼 Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior

🌐 Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a construction-focused organization committed to delivering complex projects through disciplined contract management, operational excellence, risk control, and collaborative project delivery. Our distributed teams collaborate across Project Management, Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Commercial, Legal, Finance, Human Resources, Design, Quality, HSE, Consultants, Contractors, Suppliers, Logistics, Administration, Information Technology, Laboratory Services, Life Sciences, and Executive Leadership to maintain reliable technical operations, strengthen quality controls, and support efficient service delivery.

We value technical expertise, precision, accountability, safety, and continuous improvement. Our teams work together to maintain dependable equipment, implement effective maintenance strategies, safeguard critical data, and ensure that specialized technical activities meet applicable quality, safety, regulatory, and organizational requirements.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Laboratory Instrumentation Specialist to oversee the installation, qualification, calibration, maintenance, troubleshooting, performance verification, and lifecycle management of laboratory instruments and analytical equipment. The successful candidate will help ensure that laboratory instrumentation operates accurately, reliably, safely, and in accordance with approved procedures and applicable quality standards.

This role requires strong technical knowledge of laboratory equipment, analytical instrumentation, calibration practices, preventive maintenance, equipment qualification, troubleshooting, and laboratory quality systems. The ideal candidate will work closely with laboratory scientists, engineers, quality assurance teams, vendors, procurement personnel, and technical support teams to maintain equipment performance, minimize downtime, support laboratory operations, and ensure accurate and reproducible results.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the operational readiness, reliability, and performance of laboratory instruments and analytical equipment.
• Coordinate the installation, commissioning, qualification, maintenance, calibration, and lifecycle management of laboratory instrumentation.
• Maintain an accurate inventory of laboratory instruments, equipment identifiers, locations, configurations, ownership, and operational status.
• Ensure that instruments are suitable for their intended use and comply with approved technical and operational requirements.
• Develop and maintain equipment management procedures, maintenance schedules, calibration plans, and performance monitoring protocols.
• Conduct or coordinate equipment inspections, functional checks, and performance verification activities.
• Ensure that laboratory instruments are operated in accordance with manufacturer instructions, approved procedures, and applicable safety requirements.
• Review equipment specifications and assess their suitability for laboratory applications and analytical requirements.
• Support the selection and implementation of analytical instruments based on accuracy, precision, capacity, sensitivity, reliability, and operational needs.
• Evaluate equipment capabilities against laboratory testing requirements, method specifications, and quality expectations.
• Prepare technical requirements for new equipment purchases, replacements, upgrades, and laboratory expansion projects.
• Coordinate with Procurement and approved suppliers to obtain equipment quotations, technical documentation, service agreements, and spare parts.
• Participate in technical evaluations of vendors, manufacturers, service providers, and equipment maintenance contractors.
• Review supplier proposals for technical suitability, service coverage, calibration capabilities, spare-parts availability, and warranty conditions.
• Coordinate equipment delivery, installation planning, site readiness, commissioning, and acceptance testing.
• Verify that equipment installation meets environmental, electrical, utility, ventilation, connectivity, and other applicable requirements.
• Coordinate with Facilities, Engineering, Information Technology, and laboratory personnel to resolve installation-related issues.
• Maintain complete installation and commissioning records, including equipment specifications, certificates, acceptance results, and associated approvals.
• Develop and implement preventive maintenance schedules based on manufacturer recommendations, equipment criticality, usage, and historical performance.
• Coordinate routine maintenance activities to minimize disruption to laboratory operations.
• Perform authorized first-line troubleshooting of laboratory instruments and associated accessories.
• Diagnose instrument faults involving mechanical components, electrical systems, sensors, detectors, pumps, valves, control modules, software, and communication interfaces.
• Investigate recurring equipment failures and identify underlying technical or operational causes.
• Coordinate corrective maintenance with qualified internal technicians, manufacturers, and authorized service providers.
• Monitor equipment downtime, maintenance response times, repair completion, and recurring failure patterns.
• Maintain detailed maintenance records, including service dates, fault descriptions, repairs, replaced components, test results, and release approvals.
• Verify that repaired instruments meet applicable performance requirements before returning them to routine use.
• Escalate equipment faults that may affect result accuracy, laboratory safety, operational continuity, or regulatory compliance.
• Develop equipment reliability improvement plans based on maintenance history, failure analysis, operational feedback, and risk assessments.
• Coordinate calibration activities for instruments and measurement devices requiring controlled accuracy and traceability.
• Establish calibration intervals according to equipment requirements, intended use, historical performance, and applicable quality procedures.
• Ensure that calibration activities are performed by qualified personnel or appropriately accredited service providers where required.
• Review calibration certificates, measurement results, traceability information, uncertainty statements, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain accurate calibration schedules and monitor upcoming, overdue, and failed calibration activities.
• Ensure that instruments requiring calibration are clearly identified and controlled according to established procedures.
• Investigate calibration failures, out-of-tolerance conditions, and unexplained measurement deviations.
• Coordinate impact assessments to determine whether calibration failures may have affected previous measurements, test results, or reported data.
• Ensure that affected equipment is appropriately restricted from use until required corrective actions and release approvals are completed.
• Document calibration deviations, investigations, corrective actions, and verification results.
• Support the qualification of laboratory instruments and associated systems according to their intended use and applicable quality requirements.
• Prepare or review equipment qualification protocols, acceptance criteria, test scripts, and supporting documentation.
• Coordinate installation qualification, operational qualification, and performance qualification activities where applicable.
• Verify that equipment functions within defined operating parameters and meets approved performance requirements.
• Ensure that qualification activities are documented, reviewed, approved, and maintained in controlled records.
• Support requalification following major repairs, relocations, upgrades, software changes, or other events requiring reassessment.
• Maintain equipment qualification status registers and identify instruments with incomplete or expired qualification activities.
• Coordinate with Quality Assurance to resolve qualification deficiencies and maintain compliance with applicable procedures.
• Support the validation of laboratory instruments used in regulated testing, clinical diagnostics, pharmaceutical analysis, or research environments.
• Review equipment-related validation evidence and ensure that identified deviations are investigated appropriately.
• Coordinate performance testing for analytical instruments to verify accuracy, precision, reproducibility, sensitivity, and other relevant characteristics.
• Assist laboratory scientists with instrument suitability checks and performance verification before testing activities.
• Ensure that instrument performance checks are conducted at appropriate intervals and recorded accurately.
• Investigate unexpected instrument readings, inconsistent measurements, abnormal baseline behavior, and other performance anomalies.
• Support root cause investigations involving instrument-related testing failures, out-of-specification results, and unexpected analytical trends.