Sr. Facilities Technician

Sub-Zero Group, Inc.•Cedar Rapids, IA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

This Senior Facilities Technician role is a unique opportunity to serve as a high-level technical resource within Facilities and help ensure the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of critical building infrastructure and utility systems. The Senior Facilities Technician is an advanced, hands-on technical position responsible for troubleshooting and supporting building HVAC, chilled-water systems, plumbing and piping, mechanical and electrical systems, building automation, and facility utilities. This role works independently to identify root causes, establish repair strategies, coordinate larger repairs and contractors, and improve preventive maintenance practices. The position provides technical leadership and mentorship but is not the primary people manager for the Facilities team.

Requirements

Ability to access rooftops, mezzanines, mechanical rooms, ladders, stairs, and facility infrastructure areas in accordance with safety requirements.
Ability to work around operating mechanical and electrical equipment and in hot, cold, noisy, wet, or otherwise challenging facility conditions.
Ability to safely handle tools, equipment, and maintenance materials consistent with company requirements.
Pre-employment drug/alcohol test and background check required after a conditional job offer is extended.
Negative drug/alcohol test result required for employment.
Refusal to take the test or a positive result may disqualify a candidate from further consideration.
All drug testing will be conducted in accordance with federal and state laws.

Nice To Haves

Technical leadership and mentorship (but not primary people manager)

Responsibilities

Operate and monitor facility chillers, chilled-water systems, HVAC equipment, pumps, air-handling systems, and related infrastructure.
Perform advanced facility-level troubleshooting using operating data, alarms, temperatures, pressures, flow conditions, pumps, valves, controls, and electrical conditions.
Independently investigate building temperature and humidity concerns and determine the appropriate repair or escalation path.
Determine when issues can be addressed internally and when qualified outside service is required; coordinate specialized service and share relevant findings.
Use the building automation system to review equipment status, alarms, setpoints, temperatures, humidity, pressures, valve positions, and other operating information.
Create and analyze historical trends to identify intermittent problems, abnormal conditions, and likely root causes.
Combine system data with field observations and measurements to distinguish equipment, controls, airflow, hydronic, electrical, and process-load issues.
Provide system trends and technical information to Facilities leadership, Engineering, contractors, and other stakeholders.
Provide advanced troubleshooting support for facility utilities and utility-related equipment failures.
Perform root-cause analysis of utility-driven downtime and recommend corrective and preventive actions.
Develop and improve preventive maintenance tasks and frequencies for utility and infrastructure systems.
Identify recurring failures, reliability risks, and infrastructure repair or replacement needs; recommend lasting corrective actions.
Diagnose complex piping, pump, valve, drainage, domestic water, hydronic, mechanical, electrical, controls, and instrumentation issues.
Use diagnostic instruments, equipment documentation, schematics, system data, and field observations to isolate failures.
Plan and coordinate significant repairs, replacements, tie-ins, shutdowns, equipment isolation, and return-to-service verification.
Escalate specialized electrical, controls, engineering, code-related, or refrigerant work when appropriate.
Prioritize, assign, and complete facility work orders within established department priorities.
Coordinate parts, materials, contractors, facility access, shutdown requirements, and work sequencing for significant repairs and projects.
Define technical scope, monitor work against expectations, and verify proper system operation at completion.
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to Facilities technicians and support infrastructure and capital projects as a technical subject-matter resource.