What are the responsibilities and job description for the Facilities Life Safety Systems Technician position at Lynn Rodens?
Location: Peoria, AZ – Onsite
About The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Facilities Life Safety Systems Technician to support a large, advanced manufacturing facility in Peoria, Arizona. This is a hands-on technical role focused on maintaining, testing, troubleshooting, and commissioning critical life-safety systems that protect employees, equipment, and facility operations.
The ideal candidate brings industrial experience with fire protection, fire alarm, suppression, gas-detection, or related controls systems and is comfortable working with engineering teams, contractors, and vendors in a highly regulated environment.
What You’ll Do
About The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Facilities Life Safety Systems Technician to support a large, advanced manufacturing facility in Peoria, Arizona. This is a hands-on technical role focused on maintaining, testing, troubleshooting, and commissioning critical life-safety systems that protect employees, equipment, and facility operations.
The ideal candidate brings industrial experience with fire protection, fire alarm, suppression, gas-detection, or related controls systems and is comfortable working with engineering teams, contractors, and vendors in a highly regulated environment.
What You’ll Do
- Inspect, test, maintain, and troubleshoot fire alarm, fire protection, suppression, and Toxic Gas Monitoring (TGM) systems.
- Perform preventive maintenance on hydrants, risers, standpipes, flow switches, extinguishers, foam systems, and suppression equipment.
- Service toxic gas, flammable gas, oxygen, and multi-gas detection systems.
- Troubleshoot system faults, alarms, communication issues, device failures, and interlocks.
- Support startup, commissioning, calibration, and functional testing of new systems.
- Interface with PLCs, SCADA, BMS, and facility control systems.
- Maintain accurate inspection reports, calibration records, device inventories, wiring diagrams, and CMMS documentation.
- Apply NFPA standards, fire codes, building codes, LOTO, and electrical safety practices.
- High school diploma required; technical or trade-school education preferred.
- 3 years of industrial life-safety, fire-protection, or suppression-system experience preferred.
- Ability to read schematics, riser diagrams, engineering drawings, and technical specifications.
- Experience using diagnostic tools, hand tools, and life-safety hardware.
- Strong computer skills and familiarity with CMMS platforms.