Facilities Assistant

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on - now and in the future.

Summarized Purpose:

Provides site support through the performance of assigned tasks related to facility services, building maintenance, engineering projects, and/or equipment maintenance.

Essential Functions -

May performs facility support tasks related to one or multiple functions such as building security issues and access system maintenance, shipping and receiving, distribution of mail to employees, furniture and equipment moves, and conference room set up.

• May perform building or equipment maintenance tasks including the completion of work orders, scheduled routine maintenance, preventative maintenance and repairs.
• Responds to facility related emergencies, as assigned.
• Performs all other duties as assigned by location.

Education and Experience:

High / Secondary school diploma or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualificationTechnical positions may require a certificate

Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 0 to 1 year) or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Ability to follow directions and perform tasks efficiently and accurately

Positive attitude and the ability to interact effectively with others

Good oral and written communication skills

Basic computer skillsUnderstanding of office equipment and machinery

May require general knowledge of building and maintenance such as electrical, plumbing, HVAC and construction codes

May require knowledge of shipping service operations and software such as FedEx, UPS, etc.May require basic understanding of security systems

Management Role:No management responsibility

Working Conditions and Environment:

Work is performed in an office and/or a laboratory and/or a clinical environment with exposure to electrical equipment.

May occasionally drive to site locations. Potential Occasional travel required.

Physical Requirements:

Frequent mobility required.

May be stationary for 4-6 hours per day.

Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.

Frequent crouching, stooping, bending and twisting of upper body and neck.

Light to moderate lifting and carrying (or otherwise moving) objects, including luggage and laptop computer, with a maximum lift of 25 lbs. required frequently.

Lifting / carrying objects of 26-50+ lbs. required occasionally

Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf.

Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand; with the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

May interact with others, relating and gathering sensitive information. Interaction includes diverse groups.

Works with guidance or reliance on oral or written instructions from management. May require periods of intense concentration.

Performs a wide range of variable tasks as dictated by variable demands and changing conditions with little predictability as to the occurrence. Ability to perform under stress. Ability to multi-task.Regular and consistent attendance.Pharmaceutical Product Development, LLC is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based on age, race, color, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, citizenship, disability or protected veteran or other status protected by federal, state, and/or local law.