1st Shift Maintenance Technician

Azenta Life Sciences; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Azenta Inc. is seeking a 1st Shift Maintenance Technician to support our global life sciences facilities.

The role covers routine and non-routine maintenance, installations, updates, and repairs for storage environments and facility equipment, with responsibilities including setup of new equipment and occasional after-hours on-call duties. The technician will ensure clean facilities, accurate documentation, and safe operations, with periodic travel and LN2-related work while adhering to safety

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Mechanically inclined with experience maintaining industrial equipment.
• Ability to work independently or in a team.
• Good communication and strong attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Perform weekly, monthly, and quarterly facility and storage environment maintenance.
• Assist with annual facility and storage environment maintenance.
• Assist with install, removal, validation and calibration of essential operations equipment.
• Maintain cleanliness and general appearance of the facility and storage environments.
• Diagnose and repair facility operation and storage environment issues, coordinating with 3rd party vendors when needed.
• Complete documentation, manage inventory counts and re-ordering of materials.
• Proactively communicate issues to relevant personnel.

Skills

Mechanically inclined

Communication

Independent work

Attention to detail

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Azenta Inc.

At Azenta, new ideas, new technologies and new ways of thinking are driving our future. Our customer focused culture encourages employees to embrace innovation and challenge the status quo with novel thinking and collaborative work relationships.

All we accomplish is grounded in our core values of Customer Focus, Achievement, Accountability, Teamwork, Employee Value and Integrity

Job Title

1st Shift Maintenance Technician

Job Description

At Azenta, new ideas, new technologies and new ways of thinking are driving our future. Our customer-focused culture encourages employees to embrace innovation and challenge the status quo with novel thinking and collaborative work relationships.

Azenta Life Sciences is aglobal leader in the life sciences space with offices and operations, worldwide. We area market leader in automated bio sample management solutions and genomic services across areas such as drug development, clinical and advanced cell therapies for the industry’s top pharmaceutical, biotech, academic and healthcare institutions globally. We provide unparalleled capabilities with our lab analysis, sample management and storage services, informatics software, and consumables, with the largest installed base managing over 1 billion samples globally.

How You’ll Add Value:

The Maintenance Technician is accountable for performing routine & non-routine maintenance, installations, updates and repairs for all storage environments, facilities equipment and issued repair tickets. The technician is also responsible for maintaining the general appearance, functionality and operation of our buildings and critical control areas. Technician will be involved with assigned special projects, installations or decommissioning needs within the facilities network. The Technician is also responsible for unpacking, installing, and assembly of new equipment. This role will require periodic after-hours and on-call duties as determined by departmental needs, periodic travel needs, work with and around LN2 related environments and tanks, as well as provide training as needed for other technicians.

What You’ll Do:

Specific departmental duties as set forth in the task list and/or departmental training check lists including but not limited to:

• Perform weekly, monthly, and quarterly facility and storage environment maintenance
• Assist with annual facility and storage environment maintenance
• Assist with the install, removal, validation and calibration of essential operations equipment
• Responsible for general cleaning duties for the facility which includes cleaning the warehouse floor and maintaining general appearance of the facility, storage environments, facilities inventory items, recycling of cardboard, and general disposal needs
• Diagnose, repair, and maintain facility operation and storage environment related issues and will work with 3rd party vendors through preventative maintenance, repairs, or as needed
• Complete all necessary and needed documentation in an appropriate and quality manner including training documentation
• Maintain accurate count and re-order of facilities inventory and disposable/consumable materials
• Pro‑actively communicates all issues to appropriate personnel

What You Will Bring:

• High school Diploma or Equivalent is minimal requirement
• Mechanically inclined skill‑set; experienced maintaining/repairing industrial and commercial level equipment
• Ability to work independently or in a team
• Good communication skills
• Strong detail orientation with quality and goal mindset

Working Conditions/Physical Requirements:

• Employee will be working in an area with potentially infectious materials
• Employee will be responsible for maintaining a clean work environment and workspace they occupy while enforcing and following universal precautions for blood borne pathogens when working in an area considered to be potentially contaminated
• Position will require ability to work periodically in a -20°F environment and around Liquid Nitrogen in tanks and/ or cold environments while utilizing the required PPE in all work conditions
• Ability to lift 50 lbs.

Join us and help enable life‑changing discoveries by keeping critical life science systems running reliably—every day.

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Azenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

United States Base Compensation: $26.00 - $32.50

The posted pay range for this position is an estimate based on current market data and internal pay structure. Final compensation may vary above or below this range depending on factors such as experience, education (including licensure and certifications), qualifications, performance, and geographic location, among other relevant business or organizational needs.