Facilities and Engineering Associate

Locus Biosciences is seeking a Facilities and Engineering Associate. The successful candidate will support Locus Biosciences’ facilities, which include GMP manufacturing suites, non-GMP laboratories, GMP/non-GMP warehouse space and office space. He or she will be responsible for working with the Facilities and Engineering Manager to ensure appropriate equipment onboarding, calibration, validation and maintenance.

Why Locus?

• Change the future of medicine and address a serious and unmet patient’s need by developing completely novel therapeutic modalities.
• Fast-track your career by tackling large & meaningful projects and learning a breadth of techniques and skillsets in the wet lab and manufacturing suites.
• Work with a team of exceptionally talented and hardworking individuals while striving to achieve a common mission.
• Partner with the most highly respected pharmaceutical companies in the world
• Stock options & bonus pool eligibility
• Health, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k), and PTO
• Free access to fitness center

Responsibilities will include:

• Provide engineering support, and assistance for facility operations and site services in regulated cGMP clinical aseptic manufacturing, laboratory and office workspace environments.
• Manage daily vendor, Cal/Maintenance schedules, calibration and maintenance programs and projects for systems including but not limited to HVAC (heating, ventilation & air conditioning), power distribution, steam, chilled water and other facility support systems. This includes both the reactive and preventive maintenance programs and activities.
• Perform onboarding and maintenance for all GMP and non-GMP equipment and systems and ensure they are optimized to support the site’s manufacturing and laboratory operations
• Support vendor management by interfacing with third-party facilities maintenance providers for communication and planning, as well as for technical assistance
• Support technical review and report writing for new equipment qualifications as needed.
• Manage all facility equipment and/or system excursions using Locus’s reporting system and the associated deviations and CAPA measures based on sound root cause analysis.
• Provide support for near and long-term capital project planning and execution.
• Provide prompt response to requests and issues from facility occupants, and operations managers, and to equipment and facility alarms.
• Manage facility security and access by assigning appropriate permissions to controlled areas of the facility.
• Manage software contracts and accounts for the site’s manufacturing and laboratory operations.

Candidate must possess:

• Experience with the design and installation of manufacturing, laboratory and administration work areas, or facility support utility systems in a research and development environment
• Vendor management experience
• Ability to present and discuss findings with senior and first level management, colleagues, consultants, and non-company officials.
• Willingness to continually learn and develop new skills.
• Ability to communicate work activities to teams and senior leadership.
• Possess broad analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated computer skills; MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

Qualifications:

• Associate degree in mechanical or chemical engineering, pharmaceutical technology or related fields OR;
• Equivalent time spent in the Military with mechanical experience
• Thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and collaborative environment.
• Openly shared knowledge/ information needed for a team to accomplish tasks or solve problems

About Locus Biosciences

Locus Biosciences is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing precision antibacterial products to address critical unmet medical needs in treating bacterial infections and microbiome indications. The Locus platform engineers bacterial viruses called bacteriophages to specifically kill target pathogens while leaving non-target bacteria (i.e., the rest of the patient’s microbiome) unharmed and to deliver biotherapeutic payloads to the body sites where they are needed. Locus’s lead program is an engineered bacteriophage product targeting Escherichia coli bacteria in the urinary tract, currently being tested in an active Phase 2/3 clinical trial. Locus has collaborations with BARDA and CARB-X to develop engineered bacteriophage products targeting E. coli infections and Klebsiella pneumoniae infections, respectively. For more information about Locus visit https://www.locus-bio.com/

Job Type: Full-time

Job Location: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Direct applicants only. No agencies please.