Facilities Technician

Athlone Laboratories Ltd

Dublin

On-site

EUR 35,000 - 50,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Athlone Laboratories Ltd is seeking a Facilities Technician to maintain the GMP-compliant site environment, including HVAC, water systems, and electrical services. You will manage contractors, log records, and ensure ALCOA+ data integrity across facility operations in an on-site capacity in Ireland.

The role requires 3+ years of facilities maintenance experience, knowledge of cleanroom environments, and proficiency with BMS, drawings, and safety regimes.

Qualifications

QQI Level 6 trade qualification (Electrical, Plumbing, Refrigeration & Air Conditioning, or Mechanical) or equivalent.
Level 7 in building services or facilities engineering.
3+ years' facilities or building services maintenance experience.
Facilities experience in a pharmaceutical, medical device or food site under GMP.
Utilities: Working knowledge of HVAC, electrical and compressed air systems.
Cleanroom HVAC, purified water and HEPA filtration experience.
Controls: Ability to read building services and electrical drawings.
BMS operation and fault-finding.
Safety training: Safe Pass; LOTO awareness.
Basic IT skills (MS Office).
CMMS or SAP Business One experience.

Responsibilities

Carry out planned preventive maintenance (PPM) on HVAC and air handling units, chillers, boilers, compressed air, purified water and dust extraction systems.
Respond to utility and building faults, diagnose the cause and restore service safely and quickly.
Maintain electrical distribution, emergency lighting, standby generation and UPS.
Monitor the Building Management System (BMS) and act on alarms, trends and set-point deviations.
Support energy and water monitoring, metering and reduction initiatives.
Maintain cleanroom fabric, doors, interlocks, pass-through hatches and seals in a cleanable, compliant condition.
Coordinate HEPA filter changes, integrity testing and room classification / requalification with approved vendors.
Monitor and record temperature, humidity and differential pressure in production, QC and warehouse areas.
Support temperature mapping of storage areas and cold chain equipment.
Maintain building fabric, roofs, drainage, plumbing, lighting, car parks and grounds.
Maintain fire detection, alarm, suppression and extinguisher systems through service contractors.
Support pest control, waste management and security systems (access control, CCTV).
Coordinate office, canteen and changing room repairs, moves and small works.
Work to approved SOPs, work instructions and permits at all times.
Complete work orders, logbooks and facility records accurately and contemporaneously, to ALCOA+ data integrity principles.
Raise and support deviations, change controls and CAPAs related to facilities and utilities.
Maintain the calibration schedule for facility instruments (sensors, gauges, data loggers).
Support qualification and periodic review of utilities and controlled areas.
Support HPRA inspections, customer audits and internal audits, and close assigned actions on time.
Induct, supervise and sign off contractors; issue permits to work, hot work and isolation permits.
Review contractor RAMS and confirm insurance and competence before work starts.
Comply with the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and the site safety statement.
Apply lock-out/tag-out, confined space and working-at-height controls.
Report hazards, near misses and incidents, and contribute to risk assessments.
Record work orders, labour and spare parts usage in the site systems.
Maintain facility drawings, asset registers and O&M manuals.
Track facility KPIs such as PPM compliance, utility downtime and energy use.
Propose and implement improvements in reliability, compliance, energy and cost.

Skills

HVAC systems

Electrical systems

BMS fault-finding

MS Office

Education

QQI Level 6 trade qualification (Electrical, Plumbing, Refrigeration & Air Conditioning, or Mechanical) or equivalent

Level 7 in building services or facilities engineering

Tools

CMMS

SAP Business One

MS Office

Job description

Role purpose

The Facilities Technician keeps the site's buildings, utilities and controlled environments safe, compliant and available for manufacturing. The role maintains building services and the GMP environment (cleanroom HVAC, water, compressed air, power) to EU GMP, HPRA and EHS requirements, and manages the contractors who work on site.

Key responsibilities

Building services and utilities

Carry out planned preventive maintenance (PPM) on HVAC and air handling units, chillers, boilers, compressed air, purified water and dust extraction systems.
Respond to utility and building faults, diagnose the cause and restore service safely and quickly.
Maintain electrical distribution, emergency lighting, standby generation and UPS, within competence and permits.
Monitor the Building Management System (BMS) and act on alarms, trends and set-point deviations.
Support energy and water monitoring, metering and reduction initiatives.

Controlled environment (GMP areas)

Maintain cleanroom fabric, doors, interlocks, pass-through hatches and seals in a cleanable, compliant condition.
Coordinate HEPA filter changes, integrity testing and room classification / requalification with approved vendors.
Monitor and record temperature, humidity and differential pressure in production, QC and warehouse areas.
Support temperature mapping of storage areas and cold chain equipment.

Buildings, grounds and site services

Maintain building fabric, roofs, drainage, plumbing, lighting, car parks and grounds.
Maintain fire detection, alarm, suppression and extinguisher systems through service

contractors.

Support pest control, waste management and security systems (access control, CCTV).
Coordinate office, canteen and changing room repairs, moves and small works.

GMP compliance and documentation

Work to approved SOPs, work instructions and permits at all times.
Complete work orders, logbooks and facility records accurately and contemporaneously, to ALCOA+ data integrity principles.
Raise and support deviations, change controls and CAPAs related to facilities and utilities.
Maintain the calibration schedule for facility instruments (sensors, gauges, data loggers).
Support qualification and periodic review of utilities and controlled areas.
Support HPRA inspections, customer audits and internal audits, and close assigned actions on time.

Contractor management and EHS

Induct, supervise and sign off contractors; issue permits to work, hot work and isolation permits.
Review contractor RAMS and confirm insurance and competence before work starts.
Comply with the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and the site safety statement.
Apply lock-out/tag-out, confined space and working-at-height controls.
Report hazards, near misses and incidents, and contribute to risk assessments.

Systems and improvement