Facilities Maintenance Technician

Facilities Maintenance Technician | Frederick, Maryland, United States

Shift: 1st shift, 6am-2:30pm Monday - Friday

Reports To:

Facility Manager

Position Location:

Frederick, MD

Position Summary:

To provide facilities related mechanical, utility, and mission-critical infrastructure services for a complex biotech manufacturing, distribution, R&D, and data center site including equipment and facility installation, repair, troubleshooting, and preventative maintenance. The Senior Facilities Maintenance Technician executes skilled and advanced maintenance work on building, utility, and mission-critical IT support systems, contributes to GMP documentation, responds to critical alarms, and supports the Lead Facilities Maintenance Technician with technical execution and mentorship of lower-level personnel.

Key Objectives of the role:

• Develop and maintain a complete working knowledge of all infrastructure systems and operations at the facility.

• Respond to site infrastructure, utility, and IT mission-critical equipment alarms and execute repair and mitigation activities.

• Ensure that the critical environment is restored to its original maintenance condition following repairs or interventions.

• Support site customer infrastructure facility needs to ensure continuous operations.

• Perform advanced troubleshooting on HVAC, boilers, pure steam generators, autoclaves, glassware washers, lab washers, RODI, refrigeration, electrical, plumbing, and pneumatic systems.

• Operate and support mission-critical IT data center infrastructure including Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) units, Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS), battery strings; escalate complex events to the Lead Facilities Maintenance Technician.

• Complete preventative maintenance on equipment and building systems as established in department procedures.

• Available for emergency on-call rotation.

• Provide guidance, training, and on-the-job coaching to lower-level personnel.

• Author and revise Preventive Maintenance procedures, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), job plans, and work instructions.

• Contribute to GMP quality records including Change Controls, Deviations or Problem Reports, CAPAs, and Methods of Procedure (MOPs); author independently when assigned.

• Complete work order documentation in accordance with Good Documentation Practice (GDP) and ALCOA+ data integrity principles.

• Maintain accurate records of building operations, repairs, parts, equipment condition, and PM activities within the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).

• Use the site Building Management System (BMS) to monitor alarms, review trends, and support troubleshooting.

• Monitor critical plant systems through rounds, meter readings, BMS trend reviews, and field inspections.

• Perform and record daily meter readings and identify adverse trends for escalation.

• Coordinate planned work in data center and server room spaces with site IT and adhere to mission-critical change control procedures.

• Support commissioning and qualification (IQ, OQ, PQ) of new and modified utility and facility systems as assigned.

• Support internal and external audits and regulatory inspections by producing requested records and answering subject matter questions within scope.

• Comply with all site EH&S requirements, including Lockout/Tagout, confined space, hot work, electrical safety, fall protection, refrigerant handling, and chemical safety.

• Identify recurring failures and reliability opportunities; recommend improvements to the Lead Facilities Maintenance Technician and Facility Manager.

• Ensure continuous operations of the site HVAC, utility, and mission-critical IT support systems.

• May perform other related duties as required and/or assigned.

Minimum Qualifications (must have):
Experience/Requirements:

• Must have at least 6-8 years of related facilities or utilities maintenance experience, including a minimum of 3 years in a GMP-regulated biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or life sciences manufacturing site.

• Must have a proven working knowledge of electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and refrigeration equipment and systems.

• Must have a working knowledge of IT data center and…