Facilities Maintenance Technician

About the role

OPW is a global leader in fluid-handling solutions, dedicated to providing innovative solutions for the safe handling, transport, and storage of cryogenic liquids and gases. The Facilities Maintenance Technician plays a crucial role in maintaining, repairing, and ensuring the continuous operation of all building infrastructure, utilities, and grounds.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a safe, clean, and regulatory-compliant building environment.
• Ensure restrooms, offices, and common areas meet cleanliness standards.
• Support daily operations to ensure continuous facility uptime.
• Engage with building infrastructure projects and utility tasks.
• Source, evaluate, and secure vendor contracts for groundskeeping and landscaping.
• Manage third-party contractors for lawn care, snow removal, and exterior upkeep.
• Monitor vendor performance against service level agreements (SLAs).
• Coordinate on-site visits for external maintenance and facility service providers.
• Perform preventative maintenance on building infrastructure assets.
• Service HVAC systems, air compressors, and air dryers.
• Repair facility lighting, automatic doors, and roofing systems.
• Manage office areas, restrooms, and lab structures.
• Execute general plumbing, carpentry, and structural repairs.
• Use hand tools, precision instruments, and multi-meters.
• Troubleshoot facility high-voltage and low-voltage electrical distribution.
• Read building layout plans, facility blueprints, and structural sketches.
• Interpret operating manuals, electrical schematics, and plumbing diagrams.
• Ensure strict adherence to critical facility work rules.
• Utilize proper Arc Flash PPE for building electrical systems work.
• Maintain facility adherence to local building and safety codes.
• Maintain the highest ethical standards as well as absolute personal and intellectual integrity, mature judgement and have the ability to communicate to all levels within the organization.

Requirements

• Electrical experience - 480VAC-120VAC, 120VAC-24VDC.
• Demonstrated experience in maintaining building infrastructure assets - HVAC, Air Compressors/Driers, Fans, Lighting, Doors, Roofing, Offices, Restrooms, Lab Structures.
• Ability to communicate effectively, in oral and written form with Operators, Team Leads, Managers, Engineers, Vendors, and Contractors on workmanship, manufacturability and process design issues is key.
• Interface and pass down information between cross functional team members of incoming and outgoing shifts as needed.
• Demonstrated proficiency in English comprehension and expression both verbal and written.
• Basic math skills (i.e. Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Fractions, and Decimals) as well as basic reading, writing and computational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with a high degree of quality and reliability so that production and office staff can maintain a high level of productivity.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED and 2-years completion of Technical or Community College in the fields of HVAC repair, electrical systems, plumbing and/or carpentry.
• A minimum of 5 years of industrial maintenance experience.
• Ability to work 8-hour shifts and overtime as required.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, ability to use personal computer hardware, business software, email, and CMMS-Computerized Maintenance Management Software.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and facilitation skills.
• Must be able to lift a minimum of 50 pounds.
• Must be able to stand, bend, push, pull, and climb.
• Must be able to work in weather extremes.
• Must be able to wear all required PPE.

Skills

• Electrical experience - 480VAC-120VAC, 120VAC-24VDC.
• Experience in maintaining building infrastructure assets - HVAC, Air Compressors/Driers, Fans, Lighting, Doors, Roofing, Offices, Restrooms, Lab Structures.
• Effective communication skills.
• Proficiency in English.
• Basic math skills.
• Independent work ethic.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Problem-solving and facilitation skills.
• Physical stamina and dexterity.
• Personal protective equipment (PPE) compliance.

Benefits

Our total rewards package for eligible team members also includes: a 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions; medical, dental and vision insurance; wellness programs; health savings account, health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts; company paid short-term disability and long-term disability; company paid employee basic life and AD&D insurance; supplemental employee and dependent life insurance; optional accident, hospital indemnity and critical illness insurance; adoption, surrogacy, and fertility benefits and assistance; commuter benefits; parental, military, jury duty, and bereavement leaves of absence; paid time off, business travel services; employee discounts; and an employee assistance program that includes company paid counseling sessions and legal services.