Facility Technician

About the role

The Manufacturing Facility Technician is responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing facility infrastructure, utility systems, and cleanroom support equipment to ensure safe, reliable, and compliant plant operations. This role supports manufacturing by performing preventive maintenance, responding to equipment and facility issues, maintaining cleanroom environments, and ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and quality standards.

Key responsibilities

• Perform routine inspection, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of plant facilities, utilities, and building systems.
• Maintain and support cleanroom operations, ensuring facility systems consistently meet required environmental classifications and operating parameters.
• Operate and maintain HVAC systems, including HEPA filtration, air handling units (AHUs), chilled water, exhaust, and environmental control systems supporting cleanroom operations.
• Monitor cleanroom environmental conditions, including temperature, humidity, differential pressure, airflow, and airborne particulate levels.
• Support environmental monitoring activities and assist with investigations of environmental excursions or facility-related deviations.
• Perform preventive and predictive maintenance on facility and utility equipment according to established maintenance schedules.
• Troubleshoot and repair facility utility systems, including compressed air, vacuum, purified water, process gases, plumbing, lighting, electrical distribution, and building automation systems.
• Respond promptly to facility alarms, utility failures, and emergency maintenance requests to minimize operational downtime.
• Coordinate maintenance activities with production, quality, engineering, validation, and external contractors to minimize disruption to manufacturing operations.
• Ensure maintenance work in cleanroom areas complies with contamination control procedures, gowning requirements, and established standard operating procedures (SOPs).

About you

• Minimum 2–5 years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Higher Nitec / Nitec in mechanical, electrical, or Facility management, or a related technical discipline preferred.
• Experience supporting cleanroom facilities in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, semiconductor, electronics, or other controlled manufacturing environments is preferred.
• Experience with facility utilities, HVAC systems, and environmental controls is highly desirable.
• Strong knowledge of mechanical, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, and facility utility systems.
• Understanding of cleanroom operations, contamination control, and controlled environment requirements.
• Familiarity with HEPA filtration systems, differential pressure control, air balancing, and environmental monitoring.
• Ability to troubleshoot facility equipment using electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, and technical documentation.
• Knowledge of preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance practices.
• Familiarity with lockout/tagout (LOTO), confined space entry, hot work, and other industrial safety procedures.