More than one million people in the United States today are fighting blood cancer. While a traditional allogeneic stem cell transplant has been the best hope for many, the transplant itself can prove fatal or lead to serious conditions, such as graft vs. host disease. Orca Bio is a commercial-stage biotechnology company redefining the transplant process by developing next-generation cell therapies with the goal of providing significantly better survival rates with dramatically fewer risks. With our purified, high-precision cell therapies we hope to not only replace patients' blood and immune systems with healthy ones, but also restore their lives.
We have built a state-of-the-art, 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Sacramento, CA (7910 Metro Air Pkwy) to ensure the consistent and reliable delivery of our high-precision cell therapy products. This site is essential to advancing our clinical pipeline and supporting future commercial availability of our life-saving therapies.
The Technician, Facilities/Maintenance - Night Shift is responsible for supporting the maintenance and repair of facilities and associated infrastructure across multiple production sites producing clinical and commercial drug products.
This role involves utilization of a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to execute and document preventative and corrective maintenance activities to ensure compliant and reliable operations to support production requirements to meet customer needs.
Night Shift Hours Worked:
• 6:00pm to 6:30am or
• 6:30pm to 7:00am
Work Week Schedule:
• Sunday, Monday, Tuesday + every other Wednesday or
• Thursday, Friday, Saturday + every other Wednesday
Physical Demands & Work Conditions
- Production Associates: Must have visual acuity of 20/20 (corrected or uncorrected) and normal color vision to safely perform critical tasks such as visual inspection of materials, equipment, and labeling, including distinguishing color-coded components in a GMP environment.
- Must meet cleanroom gowning requirements, including wearing full gowning (face coverings, gloves, hoods, goggles) for up to 3 consecutive hours at a time, minimal movement in the cleanroom, and working with or around human blood, blood-derived materials, cells, other biological materials, and alcohol-based sprays. Use of cosmetics (makeup, painted nails), jewelry, or facial piercings is not permitted in the cleanroom, and any skin conditions that cause shedding must be disclosed.
- Must be comfortable regularly participating in video-based meetings.
Job Duties and Key Responsibilities
- Perform or coordinate preventive and corrective maintenance on the facility and associated infrastructure
- Coordinate onsite preventative and corrective maintenance to be completed by service providers
- Escort of service providers in restricted access areas during execution of facility and asset maintenance activities
- Review and approval of service provider documentation, and completion of tasks in the CMMS
- Maintain documentation in accordance with company standards
- Ensure that facilities and associated infrastructure are maintained to applicable regulatory and GMP requirements
- Participate in the continuous improvement of facility standards, specifications, procedures, and business processes
- Other duties as assigned
- Respond to emergency maintenance requests during off-hours as needed
Education & Experience Requirements
- High school diploma or GED required, associate’s degree or certification in facility maintenance preferred
- 2 years of experience in GMP manufacturing facility, preferably cell therapy, biotechnology or pharmaceutical
- Experience in use of a CMMS system for managing execution of maintenance activities
- Experience in execution of preventative and corrective maintenance of a GMP manufacturing facility and associated infrastructure
- Experience coordinating onsite maintenance activities completed by service providers
Personal Qualities & Physical Demands
- Ability to multitask and manage multiple responsibilities simultaneously; able to prioritize
- Demonstrates strong work ethic and problem-solving skills
- Willing to support sites after-hours on an as needed or on-call basis
- Strong people skills and ability to communicate effectively
- Ability to gown and work in cleanroom areas
- Ability to work in a collaborative manner, independently and as part of a team
- Ability to work in a fast-paced start-up environment while following documented procedures and instructions.
- Ascend/descend stairs within the workspace; job requires sitting, standing, walking
The anticipated annual salary range (listed above) for this job is based on prior experience in the role/industry, education, location, internal equity, and other job-related factors as permitted by law. For remote-based positions, this range may vary based on your local market. Full-time employment positions will also be eligible to receive pre-IPO equity and annual bonus, in addition to competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits, PTO, 401(k) plan, life and accidental death and disability coverage, and parental leave benefits. Other perks include subsidized daily lunches and snacks at our on-site locations.
Who we are
We are driven by a passion for science and compassion for patients. We act with urgency to ensure our treatments are one day accessible to all who need them.
We live by our core values of passion, courage, and integrity. Excellence in our work means the chance to unlock a better quality of life for our patients, and with that comes tremendous responsibility.
We innovate on a path that hasn’t been paved. We embrace an entrepreneurial spirit and take calculated risks to achieve our mission. We aren’t afraid to ask “why not” and challenge the status quo.
We maintain a start-up culture of camaraderie and leadership by example, regardless of title.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and recognize that celebrating our differences creates stronger, lasting solutions that better serve our team, our patients and their healthcare providers.
Notice to staffing firms
Orca Bio does not accept resumes from staffing agencies with which we do not have a written agreement and specific engagement for a particular opening. Our employment activities, inquiries and offers are managed through our HR/Talent team, and all candidates are presented through this channel only. We do not accept unsolicited resumes, and we rarely outsource recruitment.
