GMP Facilities Technician: Safe, Compliant & On-site

Athlone Laboratories Ltd; Dublin; On-site; EUR 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site parking

Sick pay

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

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.