Utilities and Building Infrastructure Engineer

Utilities and Building Infrastructure Engineer

Columbus, Ohio

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The Utilities and Building Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for leading aspects of the facility and equipment performance, reliability, and compliance for Chilled Water, Hot Water, Reverse Osmosis (RO), Purified Water systems and cleanroom / building infrastructure. This role involves acting as a subject matter expert in troubleshooting, monitoring, and optimizing critical assets to drive quality and safety compliance, maximize availability, and improve asset health.

The Utilities and Building Infrastructure Engineer II will also lead or play a critical part in the execution of small capital projects related to utility and facility expansion.

• Collaborate with Facilities and Engineering to build preventive and predictive maintenance procedures and maintains P&IDs and other associated drawings for the following systems (participating in periodic walkdown of the systems):
  Hot Water, Chilled Water, Reverse Osmosis (RO), WFI (Water for Injection), CS (Clean Steam), Compressed Gas systems maintenance.
• Owns performance of one or more utility systems.
• Develops and maintains asset health metrics on utility systems.
• Continuously tracks utility performance via Building Alarm System (BAS).

• Acts as a SME in design the latest maintenance technologies for building infrastructure items including cleanroom architecture (walls, ceilings and resinous flooring design), cleanroom door control system and functionality, roofing system, facility doors/roll‑up doors, lighting, general exterior site access routes.
• Collaborates with Facilities and Utilities department to develop periodic walkdown maintenance checklists for all building infrastructure areas.

• Leads / owns small utility and infrastructure projects including scoping, scheduling, budgeting, and execution.
• Provides technical expertise in risk assessments for the design and selection of utility systems and building infrastructure.
• Supports or leads commissioning/startup (FAT/SAT) and smooth handoff to operations for facility and utility infrastructure.

• Leads closure of equipment and facility Deviations, CAPAs and Change Controls, SOPs, and audits.
• Participates in FMEAs, PHAs and PSSRs (Pre‑startup Safety Reviews).
• Executes utility and building infrastructure maintenance as required.
• Owns various aspects of work order review and closure.
• Collaborates on shutdown management…