Description
**Please note that this is a full time (40 hour/week), onsite, contractor position.
Your Impact
Our tight-knit, agile and customer focused facility team is looking for a Facility Engineering Technician with a strong work ethic and wants to be a part of a collaborative team. In this role, you will have a direct impact across multiple departments in helping the team towards achieving their pursuit of life saving therapies. This individual will support facility, utility and equipment needs in multiple buildings and teams. You will have an opportunity to learn and advance in your career as this group is forward-thinking and fully supportive of development. We understand the meaning of team and are looking for an individual that wants to be a part of something bigger and a driving force in changing the lives of cancer patients.
Position Summary
The Facilities Engineering Technician will work across teams and be responsible for the facility and capital equipment required to operate the site in a manner appropriate for GXP industry standards. The position will provide troubleshooting, reliability and maintenance plans, corrective actions, and required change controls. This is a technical hands-on position.
Responsibilities
These may include but are not limited to:
- Contribute support to the maintenance, engineering, and laboratory team’s needs.
- Assist in small to mid-size engineering initiatives and projects.
- Assist and/or coordinate facility shutdown activities.
- Monitor and maintain the Siemens building monitoring and automation system.
- Monitor and maintain the vivarium environmental monitoring system.
- Monitor and support response to critical alarms.
- Direct, assist, or coordinate outside vendors.
- Perform or assist in troubleshooting facility/utility systems and process equipment as needed.
- Perform preventative maintenance of laboratory and utility equipment.
- Perform calibration of laboratory and utility equipment.
- Assist in validation efforts.
- Walkdown systems, verify as-builts and P&ID’s, review submittals, redline drawings.
- Authoring or revising SOP’s and technical documents.
- Assist with maintenance reliability program and strategies.
- Support equipment modifications or new equipment specifications.
- Perform calibration of manufacturing, laboratory, and utility equipment.
- Support BMRAM asset management, preventive maintenance, and metrology programs.
- Actively promotes safety rules and safety awareness within the pilot plant at all times including appropriate use of protective equipment. Reports and takes initiative to correct safety & environmental hazards.
Requirements
Requirements, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering disciplined preferred (an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered) with three or more years of relevant GMP facilities experience
- Understanding of best practices for this industry.
- Understanding of general engineering systems and biomedical building related systems (HVAC, electrical distribution, plumbing, compressed air and gas distribution, building management systems, communications, security and fire protection systems, chemistry labs and clean rooms).
- Understanding of GMP related to Facility design and operation, equipment, utility and cleanroom design, operation and maintenance.
- Knowledge of best industry practices with regards to engineering principles including change controls.
- Knowledge of industry standards for commissioning, validation, and operation of facilities and utilities for cGMP manufacturing and GXP laboratories.
- Motivated self-starter, needing little guidance from management.
- Strong communication skills (e.g., clear and concise), team player, and proven negotiation skills.
- Good decision making with strong judgment through collaboration and consideration of others’ point-of-view.
- Strong understanding of pharmaceutical development, clinical research, cell therapy manufacturing, and project management. Cell or Gene Therapy experience preferred.
- Effective interpersonal skills; and a team player.
- Physical ability to work in and conduct inspections of engineering plants, rooftop equipment installations, ISO 7 cleanrooms, and construction sites.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Ability to stand, walk, sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Ability to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Ability to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as required, including but not limited to safety glasses, hard hats, respirators, and safety shoes.
- Work may be performed in office, manufacturing floor, research lab, and vivarium environments.
- Potential exposure to bloodborne pathogens, hazardous materials, chemicals, etc.
- May require occasional travel to other company sites or for training.
Facilities Engineering Technician Pay Rate: $33.13/hour to $61.49/hour
The final pay offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to the type and length of experience within the job, type, and length of experience with the industry, education, geographic location, etc.
Who We Are:
Poseida Therapeutics was acquired by Roche in early 2025 and is now part of the Roche Group. Poseida is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company advancing differentiated allogeneic cell therapies and genetic medicines with the capacity to cure. The Company's approach is based on its proprietary genetic editing platforms, including its non-viral DNA Delivery System, Cas-CLOVER™ Site-Specific Gene Editing System, Booster Molecule and nanoparticle gene delivery technologies, as well as in-house GMP cell therapy manufacturing.
Our people are as important as our cutting-edge technology. That’s why we invest in offering excellent career development opportunities to our employees, as well as highly competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits. We are committed to giving employees the resources they need to thrive, personally and professionally.
Within the Roche organization, a healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
