Facilities Associate

GeneDx (Nasdaq: WGS) delivers personalized and actionable health insights to inform diagnosis, direct treatment, and improve drug discovery. The company is uniquely positioned to accelerate the use of genomic and large-scale clinical information to enable precision medicine as the standard of care. GeneDx is at the forefront of transforming healthcare through its industry-leading exome and genome testing and interpretation services, fueled by the world’s largest, rare disease data sets. For more information, please visit www.genedx.com.

Summary 

The Facilities Associate provides technical services in support of, but not limited to building interior and exterior and laboratory spaces, ensuring that all building systems within the company are properly maintained, functioning correctly, and ready for use to support daily activities.

 Job Responsibilities

• Prioritize and respond to applicable tickets within the Facilities queues for quick and efficient resolution, ensuring timely and efficient solutions.
• Provide access and supervision to external vendors during service or maintenance visits to ensure safety protocols are followed and work is completed according to standards.
• Communicate with vendors for critical building systems for repair and maintenance scheduling.
• Coordinates repairs and maintenance of building systems and interacts with service representatives, as needed.
• Conduct regular lab and building inspections to ensure equipment is functioning properly and identify any deficiencies, and ensuring spaces are maintained.
• Perform minor troubleshooting and repair on HVAC, water, fire suppression, and common areas.
• Perform minor troubleshooting on laboratory equipment.
• Move and install equipment including refrigeration, building support and laboratory instruments.
• Monitor lab environmental monitoring systems, proactively troubleshooting and resolving issues to maintain optimal conditions, elevating issues as needed.
• Maintain physical and electronic logs for fire extinguisher, emergency lights, refrigeration, uninterruptible power supply, locker assignment and generator systems.

 People Manager

• No

Education, Experience, and Skills

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or one to three months related trade school training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Two years of related experience in facilities, HVAC, electrical or plumbing preferred.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• N/A

 Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit.  The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally climb a ladder. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds. 

Work Environment 

• Work is primarily performed in an office setting with a typical climate-controlled environment.
• Occasional exposure to manufacturing or warehouse areas, which may involve loud noises, dust, and varying temperatures.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

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