At Vitalant, the impact you make doing work that is purposeful, meaningful, and worthwhile is vital. As a member of our non-profit organization, you can be impact-inspired to provide vital clinical services to communities nationwide, vital products to those in need of a donor's generosity, or vital scientific research that advances blood safety worldwide.

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Blood Bank Equipment Specialist — Manufacturing Lab

Location: Mather Lab
Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Pay Range: $22.89–$29.63 per hour, depending on experience

Make Your Work Matter at Vitalant

At Vitalant, the work you do behind the scenes helps make lifesaving care possible. As an Equipment Specialist in our Manufacturing Lab, you’ll play a critical role in keeping the equipment, systems, and processes that support our operations safe, reliable, compliant, and ready when needed.

This is more than an equipment maintenance role. It’s an opportunity to bring your technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail to a mission-driven organization where your work directly supports patients, donors, and the communities we serve.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

Purpose-driven work. Your expertise helps ensure the equipment used in our operations performs reliably and meets the quality and regulatory standards essential to our mission.

A schedule you can count on. Enjoy a consistent Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m. schedule.

Be the equipment expert. Serve as a subject matter expert for our computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), equipment validation, maintenance, calibration, and asset management processes.

Make an impact through improvement. Your ideas and technical knowledge will help strengthen processes, solve problems, improve efficiency, and support departmental goals.

Work with a collaborative team. We value communication, respect, diverse perspectives, and teamwork. You’ll have opportunities to partner with colleagues, management, vendors, and other internal customers.

Build expertise that matters. Gain hands-on experience with equipment qualification, validation, preventative maintenance, calibration, documentation, compliance, and audit readiness in a highly regulated environment.

What You’ll Do

As an Equipment Specialist, you’ll help ensure Lab Equipment is properly managed throughout its lifecycle. You will:

• Coordinate equipment ordering, installation, validation, qualification, maintenance, repair, and return to service.
• Schedule and perform quality control (QC) and preventative maintenance (PM) on Lab and Blood Manufacturing equipment.
• Maintain accurate equipment records in the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
• Serve as a subject matter expert for the asset management system and help ensure work orders are released, completed, documented, and closed on time.
• Perform installation, validation, and qualification procedures for newly acquired equipment and equipment returning from repair or maintenance.
• Maintain and calibrate temperature logging equipment.
• Track equipment status and maintain accurate equipment files, location logs, spreadsheets, and documentation.
• Coordinate equipment repairs, order replacement parts, maintain parts inventory, and document repairs and returns to operations.
• Maintain vendor manuals and equipment documentation, including appropriate archiving.
• Support internal and external audits by gathering equipment records and answering equipment-related questions.
• Partner with management on process improvements, compliance concerns, budgeting discussions, and timely follow-up.
• Assist with the development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) related to equipment validation.
• Communicate equipment status changes and other relevant information to appropriate departments.
• Identify and escalate compliance issues to management.
• Perform all responsibilities in accordance with Vitalant SOPs, applicable regulations, and equipment manufacturer requirements.

What You Bring

Required

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Ability to read, write, and speak English effectively and follow oral and written instructions.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently.
• Ability to communicate clearly and provide excellent service to internal and external customers.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Ability to create and maintain a safe, effective work environment.
• Skills in equipment testing, calibration, maintenance, and process improvement.

Preferred

• Two- or four-year technical degree.
• Three years of relevant experience in a laboratory or manufacturing environment.
• Three years of equipment validation and maintenance experience.
• Experience training or instructing others.

The Person We’re Looking For

• You’re someone who enjoys figuring out how things work—and making sure they continue to work the way they should. You are organized, technically curious, dependable, and comfortable working with detailed procedures and documentation.
• You take pride in doing things right, but you also look for ways to make processes better. You know when to work independently and when to bring others into the conversation. Most importantly, you understand that behind every piece of equipment, work order, calibration record, and compliance requirement is a larger purpose: helping Vitalant deliver on its lifesaving mission.

Your Work Makes a Difference

At Vitalant, every employee contributes to a shared mission. Whether you are working directly with donors or ensuring the equipment behind the scenes is safe, qualified, maintained, and ready for use, your contribution matters.

Join a team where your technical skills have a purpose beyond the equipment itself—and where the work you do helps support the availability of lifesaving blood and blood products for patients in need.

Bring your expertise. Improve what’s possible. Support a mission that saves lives.

Physical Requirements

This position requires frequent sitting and reaching from the waist to shoulder, as well as regular standing, walking, bending, squatting, kneeling, reaching, handling, and finger dexterity. The role may require lifting and carrying/moving items up to 40 pounds and pushing/pulling up to 10 pounds of force. Driving may also be required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

The above description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed in this position. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, or qualifications.

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If you are impact-inspired to help others, and making a difference is vital for you, you'll experience a career built on purpose, a company created to care, and a team committed to lead - together.