Facilities Technician - Eurofins Environment Testing - University Park, IL

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

The Facilities Technician performs a variety of maintenance duties in support of laboratory and facility operations. Assists in other departments as needed.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performs standard preventative maintenance procedures
• Monitors the need for service or repair of laboratory HVAC, refrigeration, and ventilation equipment
• Troubleshoots and repairs various laboratory equipment
• Provides materials list to supervisor to maintain a stock of repair parts in-house
• Stocks all copy machines with paper on a weekly basis
• Completes weekly walk-thru of building for fluorescent bulb replacement
• Serves as emergency call backup if Facilities Manager is not onsite
• Assists in the collection of Non Hazardous and Hazardous lab waste from the facility for proper disposal
• Assist in the Shipping/Receiving of supplies including storage of supplies in a well-defined and organized manner
• Follows proper safety practices as required in the Corporate Safety Manual and assists in the inspections of facility safety equipment
• All other duties as assigned by supervisor and/or management team

Basic Minimum Qualifications (BMQ):

To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements below are representative of the knowledge, skill or ability required.

• Authorization to work in the United States indefinitely without restriction or sponsorship
• Professional working proficiency in English is a requirement, including the ability to read, write and speak in English.

Education/Experience (BMQ):

Education:

High school diploma or equivalent

Experience:

• Basic maintenance experience in:
• HVAC
• Plumbing
• Refrigeration
• Electrical

Ability and/or Skills (BMQ):

• Basic knowledge of plumbing and electrical maintenance. Working
• knowledge of HVAC and refrigeration maintenance and repair.
• Communication skills
• Organizational skills
• Ability to prioritize
• Ability to multi-task
• Ability to work with minimal supervision

Full-time position Monday - Friday day shift, with overtime as needed. Candidates living within a commutable distance of University Park, IL are encouraged to apply.  

Compensation range: $16-18/hr

 Eurofins Environment Testing (USA) provides a compensation range for informational purposes, the actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience and skill set, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location.

To learn more about Eurofins, please explore our website www.eurofinsus.com.

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and Eurofins Scientific 2/2 March 2023 agroscience contract research services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Eurofins is a M/F, Disabled, and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.