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Instrumentation Technician

Montreal
Mid Level
Full-Time

Top Benefits

Full-time permanent position, 40 hrs/week
Competitive compensation
Group insurance

About the role

Cambridge Isotope Laboratories Canada, Inc. is seeking a skilled and motivated Instrumentation Technician to join our team in Montreal, QC. In this role, you will support a variety of laboratory operations by maintaining, troubleshooting, and optimizing instrumentation across multiple departments, including chemistry, photobioreactor production, and other related laboratory areas. You’ll work closely with scientists, and production staff to ensure equipment reliability, operational efficiency, and compliance with laboratory standards.

As the leading company in a niche scientific market, CIL Canada, a subsidiary of Cambridge Isotope Laboratories (CIL) in Massachusetts, the world’s leading producer of stable isotopes and stable isotope-labeled compounds work with cutting edge researchers in clinical diagnostics, metabolic research, proteomics, environmental testing, protein discovery, drug development, metabolomics, and indust rial research. CIL and CIL Canada’s growing customer base spans academia, pharmaceutical and industry, enabling collaborations with Nobel laureates, industry-leading scientists, and chemists. CIL collaborates with leading instrument manufacturers as well pioneering research groups that have expertise in product development and drive market growth. CIL is a subsidiary of the Otsuka Pharmaceutical Group and has had consistent growth for 40 years.

Responsibilities

  • Inspect, maintain and calibrate laboratory instruments (balances, microscopes, freeze dryers, pH meters, demineralized water systems, rotary evaporators, autoclaves, centrifuges, chemical fume hoods, biological fume hoods, etc.)
  • Perform maintenance and repair of equipment used in the bioprocess department (pumps, electronic controls, Swagelok connections, gas analyzers, etc.)
  • General laboratory maintenance
  • Ensure the follow-up of calibrations
  • Management of laboratory equipment information in an IT system
  • Participate in the implementation of innovation projects
  • Related tasks may also be assigned (health, safety, hazardous materials, shipping and receiving goods, etc.). We are a small team and we are involved in the smooth running of the laboratory in general

Poste de technicien en instrumentation

Au sein de notre équipe de laboratoire, le technicien en instrumentation sera amené à travailler dans les différents départements du laboratoire, tels que la chimie, la production en photobioréacteur et autres départements connexes.

Vos responsabilités

  • Faire l’inspection, l’entretien et la calibration d’instruments de laboratoire (balance, microscope, lyophilisateur, pH-mètre, système d’eau déminéralisée, évaporateur rotatif, autoclave, centrifugeuse, hotte chimique, hotte biologique, etc.)
  • Faire l’entretien et la réparation d’appareils utilisées dans le département de bioprocédés (pompes, commandes électroniques, connexions de type Swagelok, analyseurs de gaz, etc.)
  • Entretien d’ordre général en laboratoire
  • Assurer le suivi des calibrations
  • Gestion des informations relatives aux équipements de laboratoire dans un système informatique
  • Participer à la mise en place de projet d’innovation
  • Des tâches connexes peuvent aussi être attribuées (santé sécurité, matières dangereuses, expédition et réception de marchandises etc.). Nous sommes une petite équipe et nous sommes amenés à participer au bon fonctionnement du laboratoire en général

Requirements

  • Hold a diploma that allows you to work as an instrumentation technician (DEP, DEC, BAC or AEC)

  • 2 years of relevant experience

  • Asset: Experience in the maintenance of HPLC, GC/MS and Karl Fisher equipment, with bioreactor maintenance and knowledge of electromechanics

  • Knowledge of English an asset

  • Be able to handle chemical gases such as nitrogen, carbon dioxide, helium etc.

  • Love teamwork

  • Have initiative

  • Have a sense of resourcefulness

  • Be able to lift loads of approximately 50 lbs and work in standing, sitting and squatting positions

Votre parcours

  • Détenir un diplôme qui permet d’exercer le métier de technicien en instrumentation (DEP, DEC, BAC ou AEC).
  • 2 ans d’expérience pertinente
  • Atout : avoir de l’expérience dans l’entretien de HPLC, GC/MS et appareil Karl Fisher, avec l’entretien de bioréacteur et avoir des connaissances en électromécanique
  • Connaissance de l’anglais un atout
  • Être capable de manipuler les gazes chimiques tels que l’azote, le dioxyde de carbone, l’hélium etc.
  • Aimer le travail d’équipe
  • Avoir de l’initiative
  • Avoir le sens de la débrouillardise
  • Être en mesure de soulever des charges de l’ordre de 50 lbs environ et de travailler dans des positions debout, assises et accroupies

Fin de l’affichage du poste: 17 avril

Date d’embauche : dès que possible

Benefits

What we offer

  • Regular full-time permanent position, 40 hours/week, Monday to Friday
  • Competitive compensation
  • Group insurance
  • Group RRSP with employer contribution
  • Annual salary bonus

Ce que nous offrons

  • Poste régulier permanant à temps plein, 40h/semaine, du lundi au vendredi
  • Rémunération concurrentielle
  • Assurances collectives
  • REER collectif avec contribution de l’employeur
  • Bonus salarial annuel

About Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Inc

Chemical Manufacturing
501-1000

Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Inc. (CIL) is the world leader in the separation and manufacture of stable isotopes and stable isotope-labeled compounds. With approximately 700 employees and laboratories in five countries, CIL specializes in the process of labeling biochemical and organic compounds with highly enriched, stable (non-radioactive) isotopes of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen.

Our chemists substitute a common atom for a rare, highly valued isotopic component so that the final product can be readily measured or traced using mass spectrometry (mass spec) or nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). CIL¹s products are utilized in laboratories, medical, government and academic research centers and health care facilities worldwide.

We are proud that CIL products have contributed to medical advancements in cancer research, new drug development, environmental analysis, genomics and proteomics and medical diagnostic research.

CIL¹s vision began when it was founded in 1981 by Dr. Joel Bradley, an organic chemist from MIT. We now produce more than 15,000 products and have ISO 13485 quality systems, as well as cGMP production capabilities. The CIL group is comprised of six companies: Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Inc. (CIL), CIL Isotope Separations (CIS), CIL Canada, Inc. in Montreal, Canada; Euriso-Top in Saclay, France; ABX GmbH in Dresden, Germany and CIL China.

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