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Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Metrology Technician
Location: Alewife -BIO OPS, Massachusetts (On-Site)

About the role:

As a Senior Metrology Technician, you will support the safe, compliant, and reliable operation of measurement and test equipment used across GMP manufacturing, laboratories, utilities, and quality operations. You will execute calibration, maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, and diagnostic activities to ensure measurement systems remain accurate, traceable, within tolerance, and fit for intended use. As a senior technical resource, you will help maintain site metrology programs, support regulatory compliance and audit readiness, resolve complex technical issues, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve equipment reliability and protect product quality and data integrity.

How you will contribute:

• Execute calibration, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, and diagnostic activities for instrumentation, measurement, and control systems, ensuring equipment remains safe, reliable, and fit for intended use.
• Support and sustain site metrology programs in accordance with approved procedures, quality systems, and regulatory requirements, maintaining measurement accuracy, traceability, and calibration compliance.
• Respond to alarms, abnormal conditions, and non-routine equipment or utility events; assess priorities, communicate potential impacts, coordinate resources, and escalate issues promptly to minimize operational disruption.
• Monitor, maintain, and support instrumentation, control systems, process equipment, and critical utilities to ensure reliable performance, continuous plant readiness, and timely resolution of deviations.
• Perform all work in compliance with site safety requirements, current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) standards, and regulatory expectations, including hazard assessments, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE), and approved procedures.
• Maintain accurate, complete, and timely calibration records, work orders, logbooks, maintenance documentation, alarm and event reports, investigations, and other GMP records to support data integrity, product quality, and audit readiness.
• Evaluate calibration results, troubleshoot measurement issues, and determine whether equipment meets established requirements and is suitable for its intended use.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Validation, contractors, vendors, and equipment manufacturers to resolve technical issues, improve system reliability, and support commissioning and qualification activities.
• Oversee contractor activities within assigned areas, ensuring work is performed safely, compliantly, and in accordance with site procedures and quality expectations.

What you bring to Takeda:

• High school diploma or equivalent with 4–8 years of relevant metrology experience; a technical certification, associate degree, or equivalent technical education is preferred with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• ISA certification, PMEL training, or an equivalent metrology certification is preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of calibration and metrology principles, including accuracy, precision, uncertainty, traceability, and measurement system performance.
• Hands-on experience calibrating temperature, pressure, conductivity, pH, flow, mass, balances/scales, and other process measurement devices commonly used in GMP environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills, including the ability to independently resolve complex metrology issues and assess calibration results to determine equipment suitability for use.
• Working knowledge of cGMP requirements, data integrity principles, compliant documentation practices, and calibration or maintenance management systems such as Maximo or an equivalent computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
• Strong organizational, communication, time-management, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to guide peers and contractors, take ownership of calibration compliance, and learn digital business systems supporting maintenance, procurement, safety, and quality. Ability to meet physical requirements, including wearing required PPE, working in biotechnology and pharmaceutical manufacturing environments, lifting up to 50 pounds, climbing ladders, standing for extended periods, supporting activities across Massachusetts Bio Ops facilities, and providing on-call support with a flexible schedule as needed.

Important Considerations

At Takeda, our patients rely on us to deliver quality products. As a result, we must follow strict rules in our manufacturing facilities to ensure we are not endangering the quality of the product. In this role, you may:

• Work in a controlled environment requiring special gowning and wear protective clothing over the head, face, hands, feet and body. This may include additional hearing protection for loud areas.
• Need to remove all make-up, jewelry, contact lenses, nail polish and/or artificial fingernails while in the manufacturing environment.
• Work in a cold, wet environment.
• Work multiple shifts, including weekends, or be asked to work supplemental hours, as necessary.
• Work around chemicals such as alcohol, acids, buffers and Celite that may require respiratory protection.

This is an on-site role in Alewife, Massachusetts, supporting GMP manufacturing operations, calibration activities, and site readiness. On-call support and schedule flexibility may be required.

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

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Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary

For Location:

USA - MA - Alewife - BIO OPS

U.S. Hourly Wage Range:

$30.43 - $47.81

The estimated hourly wage range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual hourly wage offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. The actual hourly wage offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location. 

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EEO Statement

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Locations

USA - MA - Alewife - BIO OPS

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

No

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