Facilities Manager
Runs the station's physical plant, biosecurity zoning, life-support backbone, and maintenance program.
Role Summary
The Facilities Manager runs the station's physical plant — the biosecurity zoning, the life-support backbone, the power and water distribution, and the maintenance program that holds the building around the Broodstock Ark and the holding systems together. Where the Biosystems and Climate / Life-Support Engineers own the individual loops, the Facilities Manager owns the structure they live in: the clean/dirty zoning that keeps disease out of the Ark, the standby power and emergency lighting that ride through a grid loss, and the planned-maintenance backbone that means a pump, a valve, or a quarantine door never fails for want of attention. The role authors and owns the AE-FAC facilities and biosecurity protocols, coordinates contractors under the League's discretion and deniability constraints, and is accountable for a physical plant where a breach of zoning or a failed critical system is measured in animal lives. When the station is quiet, dry, and sealed, the Facilities Manager is the reason.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the station physical plant — structure, distribution, standby power, plumbing, and emergency systems — and the planned-maintenance backbone across all facilities.
- Author, own, and enforce the AE-FAC facilities and biosecurity-zoning protocols, maintaining clean/dirty separation and quarantine integrity around the Broodstock Ark and holding systems.
- Coordinate the life-support backbone — power, water, and air distribution — with the Biosystems and Climate / Life-Support Engineers, keeping redundancy and alarm coverage live.
- Plan and run the preventive-maintenance, inspection, and spares program for facilities hardware, declaring zones and systems fit before animals are stocked.
- Manage contractors and vendors under the League's discretion, access-control, and deniability constraints, and supervise confined-space and hot-work permits.
- Maintain biosecurity controls — foot-baths, air handling, quarantine routing, and pest management — and audit them on schedule.
- Lead the facilities emergency response for fire, flood, power loss, and zoning breach, and keep the station's life-safety systems certified.
Required Qualifications
- Facilities-management, building-services, or plant-engineering background.
- Working knowledge of power and water distribution, standby power, and emergency systems.
- Understanding of biosecurity zoning and clean/dirty separation in animal facilities.
- Disciplined preventive-maintenance, permit, and contractor-management practice.
- Comfort owning a physical plant where a critical-system or zoning failure costs animal lives.
Preferred Qualifications
- Aquaculture, aquarium, or laboratory facilities-management experience.
- Confined-space, hot-work, and life-safety-systems certification.
- Familiarity with the AquaLink mesh, the AE-FAC protocols, and station access control.
- On-call availability for facilities and critical-system faults.
Certifications
Curricula are delivered through the Training Academy; currency is tracked on the HR training matrix.
| Certification | Status at Hire | Renewal |
|---|---|---|
| Facilities & Building-Services Management | Required | Annual |
| Biosecurity Zoning & Containment | Required ≤ 60 d | 24 months |
| Confined-Space & Life-Safety Systems | Required | 24 months |
| Electrical & Permit-to-Work Safety | Preferred | Annual |
Physical & Hazard Requirements
- Enter and supervise confined spaces and hot-work under permit and life-safety protocol.
- Work safely with energised distribution, standby power, and pressurised water.
- Pass annual electrical-safety, confined-space, and biosecurity-exposure medical.
- Respond on-call to facilities, power, flood, and zoning-breach faults at any hour, including nights.
Compensation Band
Career Path
The Facilities Manager (O-3) advances toward Engineering Lead and Chief Engineer (O-5), or laterals to the Biosystems Engineer and Climate / Life-Support Engineer loop-owner tracks. The role partners daily with both engineers on the life-support backbone and with the Veterinary Lead and Husbandry Lead on biosecurity zoning.
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