Light Maintenance Technician

Cushman & Wakefield•Eddyville, IA

21h•Onsite

About The Position

The Pilot Plant and Facilities Support Technician is responsible for maintaining high standards of cleanliness, sanitation, and operational readiness across laboratory, pilot plant, and R&D building spaces. This role provides hands-on support for laboratory and pilot-scale activities while also ensuring that offices and common areas are clean, stocked, and well-maintained, supporting a safe, organized, and productive work environment.

Requirements

The ability to observe details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Control Precision — The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
Manual Dexterity — The ability to quickly grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
Substantial lifting (up to 50 pounds) is required
Ability to move for extended or continuous periods of time
Ability to ascend and descend staircases, ladders, and/or step stools
Ability to operate applicable hand tools, power tools, and equipment
Ability to operate forklifts or other vehicles in a safe manner
Ability to wear a respirator while performing job duties
Communication/ Expression —The ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand.
Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

Responsibilities

Assemble, disassemble, clean, and sanitize glassware, bottle assemblies, and reusable containers used for laboratory and pilot trials.
Operate autoclaves to sterilize laboratory glassware, media bottles, and other applicable equipment.
Treat and properly dispose of biological waste generated in laboratory and pilot plant areas.
Prepare culture media and media plates for microbiological testing as required.
Prepare laboratory stock solutions and other preparations as needed.
Perform routine sanitation of laboratory and pilot-scale areas, including cleaning work surfaces and equipment.
Provide post-trial cleanup support for pilot plant tools and infrastructure.
Assist with organizing, stocking, and maintaining laboratory supplies.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Clean and sanitize surfaces and restock supplies in restrooms and breakrooms.
Remove general trash from offices, restrooms, control rooms, breakrooms, conference rooms, laboratory spaces, and other designated areas.
Sweep and mop tiled flooring in office corridors, control rooms, breakrooms, main laboratories, and other applicable areas.
Vacuum carpeted office spaces.
Sweep and wash down pilot plant floors on a regular basis.
Maintain overall cleanliness, hygiene, and a professional appearance throughout the R&D facility.