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Specialist, Facilities

Orca Bio · Sacramento, CA · On-site

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About Orca Bio

Orca Bio is helping to deliver the promise of cell therapy to patients without compromise. Backed by Lightspeed and Felicis.

About the role

Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve system/equipment performance, malfunctions, or failures Track and report on equipment downtime, failure trends and develop corrective actions to prevent recurrence

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Life Sciences, Facility Management or equivalent technical experience
  • 4 years of experience in GMP manufacturing facility, including equipment operation and troubleshooting, and facilities and asset maintenance execution in a GMP manufacturing facility
  • Experience in analyzing, managing, and reporting reliability metrics, and managing assets and maintenance activities using a CMMS system
  • Experience coordinating onsite and offsite maintenance, calibration and certification activities completed by service providers
  • Experience in managing and executing facility and utility projects including repairs, improvements and new installations
More about this role

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 Specialist, Facilities is responsible for facilities, utilities and production and laboratory assets across multiple production sites producing clinical and commercial drug products. This role...

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