Senior Facilities Maintenance Technician

The Senior Facilities Maintenance Technician is a highly experienced technical professional responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, and optimizing building and production systems, equipment, and infrastructure. This role combines hands-on expertise, leadership, and coordination responsibilities to ensure facilities operate safely, efficiently, and in compliance with regulations.

The Senior Facilities Maintenance Technician is responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing both facility systems and production equipment supporting a regulated medical device manufacturing environment, including ISO-classified cleanrooms. This role ensures the reliability, compliance, and performance of infrastructure and manufacturing equipment in accordance with GMP, FDA, and ISO standards.

This position serves as a technical lead, ensuring minimal downtime for both facility systems and production operations at the Braintree, MA site.

Key Responsibilities

Facilities & Utilities Maintenance

• Maintain and repair facility systems including HVAC, cleanroom AHUs, HEPA filtration, boilers, chillers, compressors, wastewater, and building automation systems.

• Support critical utilities such as purified water, compressed air, chillwater systems, and environmental controls.

• Monitor and respond to system alarms affecting cleanroom environmental conditions.

Production Equipment Maintenance

• Perform corrective and preventive maintenance on manufacturing and production equipment, including assembly, packaging, and process equipment.

• Troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and control issues impacting production lines.

• Partner with Production and Engineering to minimize downtime and improve equipment reliability (OEE).

• Support equipment setup, and calibration activities as required.

• Maintain equipment in a validated state, ensuring compliance with GMP and process requirements.

• Assist with equipment qualifications, including IQ/OQ/PQ, and revalidation activities.

• Identify and implement improvements to enhance equipment performance and reduce failures.

Cleanroom & GMP Operations

• Execute maintenance activities within ISO-classified cleanrooms following gowning and contamination control protocols.

• Ensure both facility systems and production equipment operate within validated parameters.

• Support investigations related to environmental monitoring or equipment-related deviations.

Preventive & Predictive Maintenance

• Execute and optimize PM programs for both facility and production equipment using CMMS.

• Develop predictive maintenance strategies to reduce unplanned downtime.

• Conduct root cause analysis and implement CAPA actions.

Troubleshooting & Repairs

• Diagnose and repair complex issues across facility systems and manufacturing equipment.

• Interpret technical drawings, electrical schematics, and P&IDs.

• Provide rapid response to production-impacting equipment failures.

Compliance & Documentation

• Complete all maintenance documentation in compliance with GMP and SOP requirements.

• Support audits by ensuring accurate records for both facility and equipment maintenance.

• Participate in change control and validation processes associated with equipment and systems.

Project & Continuous Improvement Support

• Support new equipment installations, upgrades, and facility expansions.

• Recommend improvements to increase reliability, throughput, and compliance.

• Participate in Lean/continuous improvement initiatives focused on manufacturing efficiency.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor junior technicians on both facility systems and production equipment maintenance.

• Coordinate work with Engineering, Production, Quality, and EHS teams.

• Serve as a technical resource and shift lead when needed.

Qualifications

Education & Experience