Staff Technologist, Chemistry Laboratory

Innovation starts from the heart. Edwards Lifesciences is the leading global structural heart innovation company, driven by a passion to improve patient lives. With millions of patients served in over 100 countries, each team makes a meaningful contribution by improving patient outcomes and discovering lasting solutions for unmet patient needs. Our Staff Technologist, Chemistry Laboratory position is a unique career opportunity that could be your next step towards an exciting future.    Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Our Global Operations & Quality team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with cardiovascular disease. You’ll partner cross-functionally with manufacturing operations and sales teams, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while developing your knowledge of the medical device industry. Whether your work includes strategic inventory planning, labeling, warehouse management, material handling, or any of our other supply chain opportunities, you will be making a meaningful contribution to our team and to patients all over the world.  How you'll make an impact:  Provide advanced technical and function-specific expertise to support routine and non-routine analytical chemistry testing in a regulated laboratory environment. Serve as a technical leader for laboratory test methods, instrumentation, investigations, method validation, and continuous improvement, supporting manufacturing, quality investigations, product development, and other cross-functional business needs. Apply in-depth knowledge and demonstrated proficiency across applicable chemistry testing, including raw materials, process solutions, purified water, sterilant solutions, chemical residuals, material identification, and other routine and non-routine analyses. Perform and provide technical oversight for analytical testing using established procedures and instrumentation such as titrators, UV-Visible spectrophotometers, FTIR, TOC analyzers, GC, HPLC, microplate readers, and other applicable laboratory systems. Identify technical risks, testing issues, and process improvement opportunities, and recommend scientifically sound solutions that maintain compliance with approved procedures, specifications, and regulatory requirements. Perform non-routine testing, technical evaluations, and special studies using approved procedures, protocols, work instructions, or documented study plans. Prepare technical summaries, analyses, trend reports, and laboratory study reports, and recommend improvements to templates, reporting tools, and documentation. Support execution of validation and qualification plans, protocols, and reports for analytical test methods, laboratory equipment, computerized systems, and other critical laboratory processes. Support the full analytical method lifecycle: development, feasibility assessment, validation, verification, transfer, implementation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement. Lead value and test method improvement projects that reduce testing time, labor, material usage, or operating cost while maintaining scientific validity and compliance with quality, regulatory, environmental, and safety requirements. Lead staff training and build laboratory technical capability by coaching and guiding technicians and less-experienced personnel on analytical methods, instrumentation, documentation practices, and troubleshooting. Assess analyst work techniques, provide professional feedback, and support qualification and certification activities for applicable methods. Coordinate daily testing activities, routine analyses, non-routine studies, and key deliverables with laboratory management, and support workload prioritization to meet manufacturing, investigation, and project timelines. Troubleshoot analytical methods, equipment, and software systems, determine when vendor or manufacturer support is required, and coordinate