Job Title: Maintenance/Engineering tech
Location: Boulder, CO 80301
Duration: 6+ Months (Possibility of extension depending upon business requirements and performance)
Schedule: M- F, occasional weekends
 
Top skills per mgr:

• Facilities maintenance experience in commercial facility
• HVAC or ELEC preferred
• Self starter

 
Purpose:

• The Sr. Maintenance Technician is responsible for ensuring all site facilities, Utilities and equipment are maintained in an operational and calibrated state.
• This includes ensuring all necessary documentation is tracked and organized, on-time execution of required maintenance, timely response to repairs in order to maintain both production and development processes within the site.

 
Essential Functions:

• Hands on- ability to troubleshoot and repair electrical, HVAC and general maintenance
• Lead maintenance activities for equipment in use at the site; coordinate, plan and deliver to schedule, ensuring compliance with local procedures and adherence to corporate policies.
• Facilitate and organize maintenance work for onsite equipment to ensure performance of equipment and instrumentation to be used in GMP operations.
• Create, track, and organize documentation for maintenance activities.
• Coordinate and interact with suppliers/vendors for work and materials as it pertains to support activities within the facility.
• Work with management team in establishing internal maintenance programs.
• Track, update, and support continuous monitoring system (manage sensor replacements for maintenance, and repair activities).
• Review supplier documentation to ensure it meets organization quality standards and conforms to local guidance.
• Installation, setup and support for qualification activities as-needed for new equipment and scale-up/build-out of the plant.
• Perform periodic inspections of facilities and systems (Assist with periodic review and reporting of facility systems as-needed).
• Organize and maintain utilities for the site.
• Provide input and recommendations on cost-saving opportunities.
• Perform projects individually or as part of a team.
• Support activities in other departments as requested.

 
Physical requirements:

• Physical Requirements 20-30% overnight travel required
• Ability to work flexible hours and overtime.

 
Qualifications:

• Minimum HS Diploma required, Associate degree or technical certification preferred.
• Advanced degree may be substituted for experience as appropriate.
• Licensure (electrical, HVAC, Jorneyman) is a plus.
• 5+ years of experience in a regulated cGMP environment highly preferred.
• Prior experience working in a life science company as a facilities engineering technician or engineering technician highly preferred
• 3+ years of experience in organizing, maintaining, and documenting maintenance programs is required.
• 3+ years of experience with equipment maintenance and systems is required.
• HVAC experience is a plus
• Inventory management
• Experience using a BMS and/or CMMS in a life science company
• Experience maintaining diagnosing and repairing industrial equipment and lab equipment, such as changing seals, pumps, valves, fittings, pressure regulators, and hoses.
• Understanding standard lab equipment is strongly preferred (incubators, centrifuges, HPLC, Mass Spec).
• Experience overseeing, calling, and managing site vendors such as HVAC vendors, process equipment vendors (Cytiva, Agilent), electrical vendors, and plumbing vendors.
• Experience interacting with R&D, quality, validation, manufacturing.
• Able to communicate well across all levels to explain the support provided with various projects.
• Experience with GDP (especially for calibration and maintenance) is highly preferred.
• Strong organizational, troubleshooting, communication and interpersonal skills are essential.
• Ability to work on fast-paced, collaborative teams and demonstrate flexibility in response to changing priorities is a must.
• Ability and desire to support the team with additional tasks as needed.

 

 


At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $40.00/hr.