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Industrial Facilities Engineering Life Safety Technician

Bloomington, MN Posted Aug 21, 2026
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About the job

Primary Objective:

Plant Engineering Life Safety Technician

Shift: E Shift: 8 am – 4 pm, Monday-Friday

Major Areas of Accountability:

Provide cultural leadership by exemplifying core values

Coordinate/Plan/Perform equipment preventative maintenance, repairs, and improvements

Contractor management

Provide technical guidance to technicians and be directly involved in SOP development and training

Support root cause investigations and implementation of solutions

Technical expert and primary focus on life safety systems: system 16 control panel connections to remote gas detectors / transmitters to track toxic gases and combustible vapors, vertex TGMS and chemcassette technology, and fire systems.

Ability to troubleshoot 4-20mA analog or digital sensor inputs for TGMS. Operation, response, repair for alarms. Understanding of programming for relays, horns, shutoff valves, and ventilation.

Unloading and receipt of chemical deliveries, storage of chemicals, review of certificate of analysis

Develop annual plans for activities within equipment area as well as capital planning

Ensure site uptime and equipment reliability.

Management of chemical inventory, FIFO

Hazardous waste handling

Resist cannister changes

Maintain supply and quality parameters of chemical and slurry distributions.

Responsibilities include drum/tote/isotainer chemical offloading to bulk tanks, chemical batch processing, SPC chart monitoring of processes, chemical sampling.

Maintain equipment uptime through maintenance activities and troubleshooting of system equipment which include valves, filters, piping, pumps, instrumentation and other components.

Ability to operate system equipment via HMI for batch creation and - or distribution.

Ability to monitor and operate HVAC equipment and respond to key equipment such as boilers, cooling towers, and chillers which are critical for clean room operations.

Other key equipment: scrubber systems, fire system, vacuum, compressed air

Operate the DI water plant

Perform system rounds and rotate equipment

Work within defined technical processes and procedures.

Initiate and drive continuous improvements.

Uphold area upkeep and 5S principles.

Ability to operate heavy machinery including forklift, pallet jack

Collaborate cross-departmentally, escalate as required.

Complete assigned preventative maintenance tasks.

Record keeping, reporting, as required.

Required Qualifications:

Education: 2 Year Technical/associate’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent military training/manufacturing work experience.

Experience:

5 years’ experience operating life safety systems

8-10 years related work experience- manufacturing or operations.

Skills: mechanical inclination, ability to troubleshoot system equipment, good communication, attentive to detail, collaborative.

US Citizenship Required: This position will require the holding of or ability to obtain government security clearance which requires U.S Citizenship.

Physical Requirements:

Ability to lift 50 lbs

At times bending and or crouching

Personal protective equipment requirements

Don fab attire as necessary

Desired Qualifications:

Education: a relevant completed vocational/professional training of at least 3 years

Skills: Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

Boiler license

Building automation

EPA 608 Universal Refrigerant Certificate

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