Facility Maintenance Specialist - Nelson Laboratories Holdings, LLC

The Facilities Maintenance Specialist is to provide technical expertise in all aspects of laboratory equipment and facilities, building, and supporting systems. The Facilities Maintenance Specialist is responsible for following all regulatory requirements, maintenance and calibration procedures, common safe mechanical guidelines, and coordinating maintenance activities for equipment and facility systems. The Facilities Maintenance Specialist will give technical advice, recommendations, and support to other departments/sections as support for projects, issues, and/or questions.

Education and experience

• High School Diploma or GED required, associates preferred
• 5+ years applicable maintenance experience/training preferred

Competencies of this position

• High integrity
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to follow written and verbal instructions.
• Legible handwriting.
• Project management skills.
• Time management - must be able to respond to voicemails, emails, and other communications in a timely manner.
• Self-motivated and ability to work independently.
• Strong team collaboration.
• Good customer service skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication ability.
• Computer experience, Microsoft Office suite.
• Good record-keeping and filing skills.
• General knowledge of basic tools.

Essential job functions:

Equipment & Calibration

• Maintain, troubleshoot, and repair all laboratory equipment.
• Perform equipment validations.
• Perform equipment and procedure validations.
• Recommend new equipment to meet laboratory needs.
• Determine maintenance and calibration requirements and write necessary procedures.
• Maintain maintenance and calibration procedure files.
• Maintain and operate calibration and maintenance recall system.
• Perform scheduled calibrations as needed.
• Interface with SLC to harmonize best practices and procedures related to the maintenance and calibration of processes and equipment.
• Manage the procedures and schedules related to calibration and maintenance of equipment.
• Partner with other staff members to accomplish necessary equipment installation, validation, calibration, and maintenance activities.
• Write SOPs and WI for equipment and facilities.

Facility

• Maintain in-house vacuum, air supply, and emergency power systems.
• Monitor in-house (RO/DI) water systems including standalone units.
• Monitor and record temperature/relative humidity systems, including standalone units.
• Perform facility maintenance functions.
• Manages the operation, maintenance, and repair of plant utility systems, including boilers, compressed air pumping systems, HVAC units, hot water systems, clean steam generators, autoclave sterilizers, vacuum systems, emergency power systems, incubators, freezers, components parts waters, etc.
• Supervises general facility repairs (lighting, doors, card readers, security systems, fire systems, etc.)
• Maintain and repair the facility walls, ceilings, floors, and other architectural features.
• Assist in HVAC equipment maintenance and contractor management.
• Manage outside facilities contractors working anywhere on the company's property.
• Maintain BSL-3 Laboratory and equipment.
• Manage Pest Control policy/procedures.
• Keep sidewalks free from snow and ice.
• Monitor and coordinate parking lot snow removal for the facility.

General

• Provides technical support, advice, and recommendations for laboratory equipment, laboratory purchases, uses, and care of equipment and support systems for equipment and buildings.
• Manages contractors, vendors, and OEM techs as needed to ensure work performed complies with Nelson Labs guidelines and quotes and invoices match based on work performed and cost.
• Understands and executes demonstrated aseptic behaviors and techniques.
• Is available for 24-hour on-call when needed.
• Participate in CAPAs and audit findings, as it applies to equipment and facilities.

Physical requirements:

• Must be able to lift 50 pounds on a regular basis and assist in moving heavy equipment, etc.
• More than 75% of time spent walking, lifting, or working on equipment.
• Wear personal protective equipment such as hoods, lab coats, safety glasses, goggles, gloves, facemasks, shoe coverings, and respiratory equipment as applicable.
• Climb up onto and down from equipment.
• Climb up and down a ladder.
• Able to manipulate small hand tools.

The name Sotera Health was inspired by Soteria, the Greek goddess of safety, and reflects the Company's unwavering commitment to its mission, Safeguarding Global Health®. Sotera Health Company is a leading global provider of mission-critical sterilization and lab testing and advisory services for the healthcare industry. With a combined tenure across our businesses of nearly 200 years and our industry recognized scientific and technological expertise, we help to ensure the safety of millions of patients and healthcare practitioners around the world every year. Across our 64 facilities worldwide, we have over 3,000 employees who are dedicated to safety and quality. We are a trusted partner to more than 5,800 customers in over 50 countries, including more than 40 of the top 50 medical device companies and 8 of the top 10 global pharmaceutical companies.

Sotera Health goes to market through its three best-in-class businesses - Sterigenics®, Nordion® and Nelson Labs®. Sterigenics is a leading global provider of outsourced terminal sterilization and irradiation services for the medical device, pharmaceutical, food safety and advanced applications markets. Nordion is the leading global provider of Co-60 and gamma irradiators, which are key components to the gamma sterilization process. Nelson Labs is a global leader in outsourced microbiological and analytical chemistry testing and advisory services for the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. Learn more about Sotera Health at soterahealth.com.