Facilities Engineer

About the role

The Facilities Engineer will play an important role in ensuring safe, reliable, compliant, and efficient facility operations through effective technical support, problem solving, and collaboration with internal stakeholders and external vendors. This role supports day-to-day facility needs while contributing to the management of facility maintenance and the planning, coordination, and execution of facility improvement projects and related maintenance activities across a multi-site campus that includes biomanufacturing, research, administrative, and warehouse environments.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute small- to medium-sized facility projects involving site infrastructure, utilities, building systems, and supporting equipment through the full project lifecycle, including scope management, scheduling, budgeting, and coordination of activities with internal stakeholders and contractors.
• Manage the work order lifecycle, including creation, planning, coordination, execution, documentation of completed activities, and closeout in the CMMS system (Maximo) in accordance with company procedures.
• Host vendors and contractors on site, support coordination of work, and ensure adherence to site standards and expectations.
• Conduct site walks, field assessments, surveys, and investigations to define scope, identify issues, and verify field conditions. Develop remediation plans based on findings and manage execution through work orders and internal and external vendors.
• Assist in troubleshooting facility and utility-related issues and coordinate corrective actions with internal teams and external vendors. Provide prompt response to reported facility issues and demonstrate the ability to think clearly under pressure in a cGMP environment.
• Review drawings, sketches, specifications, and redlines to support maintenance, project, and repair activities.
• Ensure all work is performed in accordance with applicable policies, procedures, safety expectations, and compliance requirements.
• Possess a working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices, and procedures. Ability to work on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors. Demonstrates judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.

Requirements

• A Bachelors Degree in Engineering, science or closely related discipline is desired, or equivalent technical experience plus demonstrated competence, with a desired 2+ years of significant engineering and/or operational experience. Additional post-graduate education may contribute towards the desired years of experience.

Qualifications

• Has demonstrated competency within a discipline.
• Possesses a working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices, and procedures. Ability to work on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors. Demonstrates judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Interacts well with diverse groups within engineering and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.
• Listens to and understands others' points of view and articulates tactfully and respectfully one's own perspective orally, in writing, and in presentations.
• Works well with other engineers in a collaborative, fast-paced goal-driven environment.
• Possesses interpersonal skills to negotiate and reconcile differences.
• Has a technical background in health care, medical devices, pharmaceutical, biologics, or similar industries (preferred).