Facilities Engineer

Our client is a leading, clinical-stage gene therapy company founded in 2001 with a focus on neuromuscular, central nervous system, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases with clinical trials underway for Pompe disease, Parkinson's disease, and congestive heart failure.

The Facilities Engineer will assist in the day-to-day operation and maintenance of the facilities across multiple sites within the RTP Hub.

Responsibilities :

• Work with Facilities & Engineering team to manage and maintain proper building functionality inside and outside of laboratories including but not limited to, emergency and non-emergency power systems, HVAC units, cold storage, RODI water systems, air compressors, vacuum pumps, and other major utilities systems
• Perform daily site walk through and verify functional check on all major systems and utilities that are critical to our daily operations
• Assist with monitoring the building management system (BMS) as needed, investigate the issue(s), and follow procedures for the appropriate solution according to the issue(s)
• Troubleshoot and diagnose equipment or utilities problems, document findings and report back to the Facilities & Engineering team to work through a solution. Execute facilitating the solution if the task has been assigned to you to carry out
• Attend weekly Facilities & Engineering stand-up team meetings and update team on status of individual action items
• Participate in key project planning meetings with capital projects along with the facilities team, raising concerns and pursuing resolutions during project planning meetings, implementation, and delivery of assigned projects
• Support project delivery and monitor progress through assigned project deliverables, providing updates and recommendations to the internal engineering team
• Manage and maintain timely completion of service ticket requests from all internal users
• Coordinate with the internal customer on status updates of complex issues that develop into projects from work orders
• Collaborate across departments such as EH&S, QA, Lab Operations and Capital Projects to achieve group success in a number of stakeholder and vendor facing challenges
• Work to comply with safety initiatives set forth by EH&S to ensure departmental and organizational compliance
• Assist lab operations and department requests for equipment setup within various labs across the organization

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