Calibration Manager

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? We're Hiring: Calibration Manager

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior

Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a globally focused organization committed to maintaining accurate, reliable, traceable, and compliant measurement systems across industrial, manufacturing, laboratory, engineering, quality, and operational environments.

Our teams collaborate across Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing, Maintenance, Laboratory, Production, Safety, Metrology, Procurement, Operations, IT, and external calibration laboratories to ensure measurement equipment remains fit for purpose and supports product quality, process control, regulatory compliance, and operational reliability.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Calibration Manager to lead calibration strategy, metrology operations, measurement-system management, calibration scheduling, equipment qualification, measurement traceability, uncertainty management, laboratory coordination, compliance, and continuous improvement.

The successful candidate will establish and maintain a robust calibration program covering measuring instruments, test equipment, laboratory equipment, production measurement systems, inspection equipment, sensors, monitoring devices, and other measurement assets.

Key ResponsibilitiesCalibration Strategy

- Develop and implement a comprehensive calibration strategy aligned with quality, manufacturing, engineering, laboratory, regulatory, and business requirements.
- Establish calibration policies, standards, procedures, governance, and technical requirements.
- Develop risk-based calibration strategies for critical measurement equipment.
- Define calibration priorities based on equipment criticality, measurement risk, historical performance, usage, and regulatory requirements.

Calibration Program Management
- Manage the end-to-end calibration program across relevant facilities, departments, equipment, and measurement systems.
- Establish calibration schedules, frequencies, methods, acceptance criteria, and documentation requirements.
- Ensure calibration activities are completed within defined intervals.
- Monitor overdue calibration and establish escalation procedures.

Calibration Planning
- Develop annual, quarterly, monthly, and weekly calibration plans.
- Coordinate calibration activities with Production, Maintenance, Engineering, Laboratory, Quality, and Operations.
- Minimize disruption to operational activities while maintaining measurement integrity.

Calibration Scheduling
- Schedule internal and external calibration activities.
- Coordinate equipment availability, technicians, laboratories, vendors, and operational requirements.
- Ensure calibration resources are available when required.

Calibration Execution
- Oversee calibration activities for:
- Pressure Instruments
- Temperature Instruments
- Flow Instruments
- Dimensional Instruments
- Electrical Instruments
- Torque Equipment
- Mass and Weight Standards
- Force Measurement Equipment
- Humidity Instruments
- Time and Frequency Equipment
- Laboratory Instruments
- Process Sensors
- Test and Measurement Systems

Measurement Equipment Management
- Establish and maintain a controlled inventory of measurement and test equipment.
- Maintain accurate records covering:
- Equipment Identification
- Serial Numbers
- Location
- Owner
- Calibration Status
- Calibration Interval
- Calibration History
- Due Date
- Results
- Measurement Range
- Accuracy Requirements

Equipment Identification




- Establish unique identification and status-labeling requirements for calibration-controlled equipment.
- Ensure calibration status can be readily determined.
- Prevent unauthorized use of equipment with expired or invalid calibration status.

Calibration Status Control
- Establish controls for:
- Calibrated
- Due for Calibration
- Overdue
- Failed Calibration
- Out of Service
- Under Repair
- Reference Standard
- Retired
- equipment.

Metrology Management
- Establish metrology standards and practices for measurement systems.
- Ensure measurement results are accurate, repeatable, reproducible, and traceable.
- Support development of measurement capability across the organization.

Measurement Traceability
- Ensure calibration results are traceable to recognized national or international measurement standards where applicable.
- Maintain traceability documentation.
- Verify that reference standards remain appropriately controlled.

Reference Standards
- Manage reference standards used for calibration.
- Establish appropriate:
- Storage
- Handling
- Environmental Controls
- Calibration Frequencies
- Protection
- Traceability
- Prevent deterioration or unauthorized use.

Key Performance Indicators Performance may be measured through:
- Calibration compliance rate
- On-time calibration rate
- Overdue calibration rate
- Calibration backlog
- Out-of-tolerance rate
- Calibration failure rate
- Repeat calibration failure rate
- Equipment drift rate
- Measurement-system capability
- Gauge R&R; performance
- Measurement uncertainty performance
- Calibration turnaround time
- Internal calibration utilization
- External calibration utilization
- Calibration cost per asset
- Calibration cost per department
- Calibration cost per measurement type
- Calibration vendor performance
- Calibration certificate acceptance rate
- Calibration certificate error rate
- Traceability compliance
- Reference-standard compliance
- Equipment identification accuracy
- Calibration-record completeness
- CMMS/calibration-system data accuracy
- Equipment availability
- Critical-equipment calibration compliance
- Product-impact assessment completion
- Out-of-tolerance investigation completion
- Corrective-action completion
- Corrective-action effectiveness
- Calibration interval optimization
- Emergency calibration rate
- Equipment replacement rate
- Obsolete-equipment reduction
- Calibration inventory utilization
- Calibration workload efficiency
- Technician productivity
- Training completion
- Technician competency
- Audit findings
- Audit corrective-action closure
- Measurement-risk reduction
- Calibration cost savings
- Downtime reduction
- Digitalization adoption
- Predictive-calibration effectiveness
- Continuous-improvement savings

Ideal Candidate The successful candidate should have experience in Calibration, Metrology, Measurement Systems, Quality Engineering, Instrumentation, Test & Measurement, Laboratory Operations, or related fields .

The candidate should demonstrate

- Proven experience managing calibration or metrology programs in industrial, manufacturing, laboratory, engineering, pharmaceutical, energy, aerospace, automotive, electronics, or other measurement-intensive environments.




- Strong understanding of calibration principles, measurement traceability, measurement uncertainty, standards, calibration methods, and measurement-system performance.
- Experience managing calibration programs covering electrical, dimensional, pressure, temperature, flow, force, torque, mass, humidity, instrumentation, laboratory, and test equipment.
- Strong understanding of risk-based calibration and calibration-interval optimization.
- Experience managing calibration laboratories, internal calibration teams, external laboratories, or metrology service providers.
- Strong knowledge of ISO/IEC 17025, ISO 10012, ISO 9001, and other relevant quality or metrology requirements.
- Experience with Measurement System Analysis, Gauge R&R;, bias, linearity, stability, repeatability, and reproducibility.
- Strong understanding of out-of-tolerance investigations and product/process impact assessments.
- Experience reviewing calibration certificates, traceability documentation, uncertainty statements, and technical records.
- Experience managing CMMS, EAM, Laboratory Information Management Systems, calibration-management systems, or other asset-management platforms.
- Strong analytical capabilities with experience using calibration history and measurement data to identify trends and optimize calibration strategies.
- Experience managing calibration budgets, service contracts, suppliers, laboratories, and technical resources.
- Experience with digital calibration management, electronic certificates, mobile calibration, automated data capture, or connected measurement systems is advantageous.
- Experience with predictive analytics, AI, condition monitoring, or automated calibration technologies is advantageous.
- Strong understanding of measurement-equipment lifecycle management, equipment obsolescence, procurement, replacement, repair, and asset tracking.
- Strong knowledge of calibration safety requirements, environmental controls, equipment handling, and laboratory practices.
- Experience leading calibration engineers, metrology specialists, technicians, coordinators, or technical service teams.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, technical, organizational, and project-management capabilities.
- Knowledge of UAE and GCC industrial, manufacturing, laboratory, quality, and regulatory environments is advantageous.
- Relevant degree in Metrology, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering, Measurement Science, Physics, Industrial Engineering, Quality Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Professional certifications in metrology, calibration, quality, laboratory management, Lean Six Sigma, or related disciplines are advantageous.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills; additional languages are advantageous.
- Excellent technical leadership, planning, stakeholder-management, analytical, and communication skills.
- Ability to translate measurement risks into practical calibration, engineering, quality, and operational controls.
- Ability to balance measurement accuracy, compliance, equipment availability, calibration cost, operational continuity, and business risk.
- Ability to manage complex calibration programs, technical investigations, external laboratories, vendors, budgets, and competing priorities.
- Ability to work independently in a fully remote and internationally distributed environment.
- Strong metrology-focused, measurement-driven, quality-conscious, technically rigorous, traceability-oriented, data-driven, risk-aware, analytical, compliance-focused, proactive, collaborative, and results-driven mindset.

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