Facility & Maintenance Technician

🚀 Challenge the Impossible

About Beyond Gravity

Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, Beyond Gravity is not your typical space company. We're a unique blend of agility, speed, and innovation, fusing a start-up mindset with decades of industry expertise and a track record of 100% mission success. Our dynamic team of over 1700 professionals, spread across 13 locations in six countries, is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what is technically feasible. We're not just building crucial products for the satellites and launchers industry, we’re helping to improve life on earth.

This position performs highly diversified duties primarily revolving around maintenance and repair of building mechanical electrical, plumbing, and HVAC systems. This position will also support site maintenance work on production related equipment. This position will help implement all new items in our new facility and be given tasks via CMMS system for both facility & production equipment, scheduled PM services. Help respond to immediate need calls and general facility maintenance and standard daily asks/tasks.

Your Mission

• Able to manage data entry and able to fulfill tasks for work tracking within the site CMMS system (Limble)
• Perform emergency/unscheduled repairs of facility and production equipment, including, but not limited to, building mechanical, electrical, plumbing and HVAC system
• Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform regular maintenance and service
• Diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, test and make adjustments to WSHP and refrigerant based HVAC and other industrial building or production systems
• Order new parts as needed and maintain a spare parts inventory
• All maintenance records to be kept presentable for auditing purposes
• Perform regular preventive maintenance on facility and production equipment
• Operate a variety of hand and power tools, electronic meters and material handling equipment
• Assess faulty operations and defective material; initiate corrective actions to resolve faults and unsafe conditions
• Comply with safety regulations and maintain clean and orderly work areas
• Able to operate and work from aerial platforms, forklifts, and other mobile equipment at heights up to 85 feet
• Work closely with Safety and Facility and Preventative Maintenance departments on any changes to equipment or processes
• Support site maintenance personnel in the maintenance and repair of production related equipment as needed
• Availability to work extended hours and afterhours/holidays as needed
  
  
  

Your Story

• High school diploma/GED and completion of a craft apprenticeship, or an equivalent number of years of education and facility maintenance experience
• Strong electrical, mechanical, HVAC, and industrial skills
• Ability to quickly diagnose facility equipment failures/issues
• Well versed in the overall specification and design of a machine or system
• Able to ensure the safe operation of equipment thereby promoting safety in the workplace
• Specialize in overall machine or system trouble shooting in terms of malfunction and breakdown
• Responsible for all P/M's pertaining to facility equipment
• Strong mechanical repair background is required
• Understands work flow and priorities, has the ability to quickly shift to a task of greater importance.
• 4 years of manufacturing maintenance experience, preferred
• Some PLC, pneumatic, and/or CNC experience, preferred
• Fast-paced industrial manufacturing experience, preferred
• Must be autonomous, self-starting, dependable, and driven to perform needed work throughout the day
• Attention to detail
• Interpersonal skills
• Ability to handle stress
• Ability to interact and discuss equipment operations with operators and their supervisors on production floor
• Organization and working knowledge of 5S system
• Equipment and Facilities ownership, initiative, and accountability
• Ability to work in and maintain a clean working environment
  
  
  

🌌Are you ready for lift-off?

Our core values - Passionate, Together, and Curious - transform challenges into opportunities. Embark on a journey to transcend the ordinary with us. Propel your career to new heights by applying. We‘re actively reviewing candidates and will promptly select the ideal fit for our team.

 

For questions regarding the position, please contact: Christopher Chesser | chris.chesser@beyondgravity.com 

For questions regarding the position or recruitment process, please contact: Michelle Lach | michelle.lach@beyondgravity.com  

Beyond Gravity is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected categories.

Applications by e-mail cannot be considered. We do not accept dossiers from recruitment agencies for this position.