Maintenance Engineering Technician II

Lila Sciences
Cambridge
Full timeFunction: Field Service, Maintenance & Skilled TradesExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Documentation discipline","Independent troubleshooting","Precision","Vendor coordination"]

Maintain high-uptime, precision operations for commissioned instruments and integrated workcells. Execute scheduled preventive maintenance, perform first-response troubleshooting, and keep calibration/qualification (including IQ/OQ/PQ) and CMMS records accurate. Respond to alarms and out-of-tolerance issues, coordinate vendor visits and service history, and track MTBF/downtime trends. Collaborate across Lab Operations, Research Operations, Hardware & Controls Engineering, and help develop ME SOPs and work instructions.

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Maintenance Engineering Technician II

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Job Summary

Maintain high-uptime, precision operations for commissioned instruments and integrated workcells. Execute scheduled preventive maintenance, perform first-response troubleshooting, and keep calibration/qualification (including IQ/OQ/PQ) and CMMS records accurate. Respond to alarms and out-of-tolerance issues, coordinate vendor visits and service history, and track MTBF/downtime trends. Collaborate across Lab Operations, Research Operations, Hardware & Controls Engineering, and help develop ME SOPs and work instructions.
Location: Cambridge
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Field Service, Maintenance & Skilled Trades

Key Responsibilities

  • •Execute scheduled preventive maintenance across the commissioned instrument fleet.
  • •Maintain accurate PM, repair, and service records in the CMMS.
  • •Perform instrument calibration and support IQ/OQ/PQ execution.
  • •Respond to instrument alarms, failures, and performance anomalies during shift; execute in-scope repairs and escalate engineering-level issues.
  • •Coordinate vendor visits, track service records, maintain spare parts inventory, and document incidents and out-of-tolerance conditions in the CMMS.

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years of hands-on instrument maintenance experience in a research, clinical, or production lab.
  • •Experience maintaining biological research or analytical instruments.
  • •Working knowledge of pipetting system calibration, fluidics troubleshooting, and optical systems.
  • •Experience with cell culture equipment preventive maintenance.
  • •Strong documentation discipline and comfort working in a CMMS.
Experience:3+ yearsResearch labsClinical labsProduction labsBiological researchAnalytical instruments
Skills:Documentation disciplineIndependent troubleshootingPrecisionVendor coordination
Languages:English
Tech Stack:CMMSMaximoEMaintMaintainXFiix

Company Brief

Lila Sciences
Develops AI-driven platforms to accelerate drug discovery and biological research by integrating machine learning with chemical and biological data to predict molecular properties, streamline candidate selection, and enable faster therapeutic development.
Industry: Biotech
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Funding: Seed
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