Facilities & Maintenance Technician

Ready to be the person who keeps the whole place running?
Nothing we do works if the water, power and freezers don't.
Changing the world—one fruit fly at a time.
We've developed a novel insect-based expression platform to enable bio-products across humanity's most critical verticals.
We're unleashing the next biorevolution.
At Future Fields, we are continually learning and evolving. We know we don't have all the answers, but we try to ask all the questions. We believe in "failing forward" and leveraging our mistakes to help us grow. We never want our team to feel constrained by the status quo and we don't judge ideas based on where they come from.

We actively work to foster a culture of collaboration, innovation and psychological safety through transparency, structure, and open communication. We know it sounds cliché, but every employee really is a valued and equal member of the Future Fields team.
Come find your purpose with Future Fields.
We are a rapidly growing venture-backed startup (with support from awesome investors including Bee Partners, Y Combinator, BDC Climate Tech, R7 Partners, Toyota Ventures and Amplify Capital). We've even had a shoutout from Ironman himself! Joining our team now means you'll have the opportunity to shape our culture and products, to lead others, and to influence the direction of our company.

Perhaps most importantly, you'll be joining a team that is genuinely energized by this work and the meaningful potential of biotech to change the world.
About the role   This is a broad, important job, and it is hands-on from day one. You'll be receiving liquid nitrogen, changing filters, running the preventive maintenance schedule, keeping consumables stocked, chasing the contractor who said it will be done by Tuesday, and writing down what you did so the next person doesn't have to work it out from scratch. Some of it is skilled.

Some of it is a wrench and a Thursday afternoon.
We need someone who is good at both and above neither.
Our operations span two adjacent downtown Edmonton properties on a single lot: a 1950s brick warehouse housing our offices and upper-floor lab, and Instar, a repurposed 1980s facility transformed via a $3M buildout into an insect-rearing space and cleanroom. Together, these buildings feature complex infrastructure, including cleanroom-dedicated HVAC, an RO water purification setup, humidification systems, compressed air lines,
-80°C cold storage, a basement currently in development, and an expanding suite of industrial equipment. With daily demands across these systems currently addressed on an ad hoc basis by whoever is available, dedicated oversight is required to keep everything running smoothly.
You’ll report to Abbas, our Lab Operations Lead, and elevate technical problems to Brian, our Senior Engineer. You won't have direct reports, but you will direct contractors and service vendors, and within a year you should be the person the whole company goes to when something in the building isn’t right.
You don't need a ticket, a diploma, or any biotech experience to do this job well.  We’ll go into that below, because we mean it.
This role will own    Receiving and materials handling
Own receiving end-to-end across both buildings: inspect what arrives, check it against the packing slip and paperwork, and flag damage or discrepancies before anything moves.
Log every incoming lot in Benchling—lot number, expiry, certificate of analysis—so what's on the shelf and what's in the system agree.
Hold material until it's been checked against its specification and released, then get it into the right storage: ambient, cold, flammables, acids. Keep expired stock out of circulation before someone reaches for it.
Catch temperature-sensitive shipments before…