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Facilities & Maintenance Technician

Come Find Your Purpose At Future Fields

Job Location:

Edmonton - Canada

Monthly Salary: $ 60000 - 78000

Posted: 17 August 2026 (8 hours ago)

Application Deadline: 14 November 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Ready to be the person who keeps the whole place running Nothing we do works if the water power and freezers dont.

Changing the worldone fruit fly at a time.

Weve developed a novel insect-based expression platform to enable bio-products across humanitys most critical verticals.

Were unleashing the next biorevolution.

At Future Fields we are continually learning and evolving. We know we dont have all the answers but we try to ask all the questions. We believe in failing forward and leveraging our mistakes to help us grow. We never want our team to feel constrained by the status quo and we dont judge ideas based on where they come from. We actively work to foster a culture of collaboration innovation and psychological safety through transparency structure and open communication. We know it sounds cliché but every employee really is a valued and equal member of the Future Fields team.

Come find your purpose with Future Fields.

We are a rapidly growing venture-backed startup (with support from awesome investors including Bee Partners Y Combinator BDC Climate Tech R7 Partners Toyota Ventures and Amplify Capital). Weve even had a shoutout from Ironman himself! Joining our team now means youll have the opportunity to shape our culture and products to lead others and to influence the direction of our company. Perhaps most importantly youll be joining a team that is genuinely energized by this work and the meaningful potential of biotech to change the world.

About the role

This is a broad important job and it is hands-on from day one. Youll be receiving liquid nitrogen changing filters running the preventive maintenance schedule keeping consumables stocked chasing the contractor who said it will be done by Tuesday and writing down what you did so the next person doesnt have to work it out from scratch. Some of it is skilled. Some of it is a wrench and a Thursday afternoon. We need someone who is good at both and above neither.

Our operations span two adjacent downtown Edmonton properties on a single lot: a 1950s brick warehouse housing our offices and upper-floor lab and Instar a repurposed 1980s facility transformed via a $3M buildout into an insect-rearing space and cleanroom. Together these buildings feature complex infrastructure including cleanroom-dedicated HVAC an RO water purification setup humidification systems compressed air lines -80C cold storage a basement currently in development and an expanding suite of industrial equipment. With daily demands across these systems currently addressed on an ad hoc basis by whoever is available dedicated oversight is required to keep everything running smoothly.

Youll report to Abbas our Lab Operations Lead and escalate technical problems to Brian our Senior Engineer. You wont have direct reports but you will direct contractors and service vendors and within a year you should be the person the whole company goes to when something in the building isnt right.

You dont need a ticket a diploma or any biotech experience to do this job well. Well go into that below because we mean it.

This role will own

Receiving and materials handling

Own receiving end-to-end across both buildings: inspect what arrives check it against the packing slip and paperwork and flag damage or discrepancies before anything moves.
Log every incoming lot in Benchlinglot number expiry certificate of analysisso whats on the shelf and whats in the system agree.
Hold material until its been checked against its specification and released then get it into the right storage: ambient cold flammables acids. Keep expired stock out of circulation before someone reaches for it.
Catch temperature-sensitive shipments before they sit. Know whether a box belongs in the fridge or the -20C freezer and get it there immediately.
Be the person on site for deliveries that dont book a time: liquid nitrogen gas cylinders equipment.

Equipment maintenance and upkeep

Routine maintenance on lab and production equipment: filter changes cleaning consumable swaps the small recurring work that keeps instruments alive.
Build and run a documented preventive maintenance schedule across equipment and building systemsand execute it rather than aspire to it.
Schedule contractor and vendor service be present for it and record what was actually done before you sign.
Be the first look when something stops working. Check the obvious things yourself know when its past you and get the right person in.

Building systems and general upkeep

Help keep both buildings running: HVAC RO and process water compressed air humidification cold storage electrical plumbing drainage lifts. The routine and preventive side is yours; the engineering problems are Brians and youll learn a great deal working alongside him on them.
Small repairs are yours. Leaks blocked drains a door that wont latch a failed sensor the daily unglamorous list.
Own the spaces nobody ownsbasement storage areas loading dock front roomon a schedule not when it becomes a flood.
Own the facilities request queue so facilities questions stop landing on our engineering team.

Inventory and consumables

Support consumables inventory across both buildings: what we have whats running out and what hasnt moved in a year.
Order against real usage. A stockout should be something you prevented not something you reported.
Own utility accounts waste pickup and gas and consumables ordering.

Documentation

Write the one-pagers that dont exist yetwhat to do when the freezer beeps how to refill the liquid nitrogen where the filters are and how to change them. Not audited SOPs. The practical version for the Friday evening when the people who know are gone.
Keep them where people will actually find them: attached to the equipment record in our Lab Information Management System (Benchling) and our Quality Management System (Qualio).
Build and maintain a register of our equipment and utilities across both buildingswhat we have where it is what its connected to and what it draws. Nobody has ever written this down in one place and we need it.
Maintain one live contact registersuppliers sales reps service techsmapped to the equipment each of them covers. Today that information is split across three systems and nobody checks any of them.
Keep equipment records current: service reports repairs dates costs.
Document every repair. If it happened and it isnt written down it didnt happen.

What youll grow into

Supporting qualification of our facilities and utilitiescleanroom pressure differentials HEPA certification water system sampling HVAC performance. A contractor authors the protocols; youll execute them on the live systems and own the monitoring programs afterwards. We will teach you IQ/OQ of instruments.
Mapping facility and utility capacity against our manufacturing roadmap so our next physical constraint is a decision rather than an emergency.
More of the building as fast as you can take it on.

About you

You are practical and you finish things. Youd rather fix it than file a ticket about it and you write down what you did because youve been the person who had to guess what someone else did.

What we need you to have done before

Hands-on maintenance or facilities worka plant a lab a shop a farm a processing facility. Not office facilities. Somewhere things break and you were the one who dealt with it.
Fixed the small things yourself rather than dispatching them. You own tools and you know what you can and cant safely take apart.
Dealt with contractors or vendors at least at the level of booking the work being there for it and checking what was actually done.
Written things downrecords logs procedures checklistssomewhere that someone else relied on.
Worked without much day-to-day direction. Youll have a manager and youll have support but most days nobody is standing over you deciding whats next.
Comfortable with the physical parts of the job: lifting ladders cylinders cold rooms an early start when a delivery needs one.

What matters more than the resume

Resourcefulness. You can improvise a working fix out of whats on hand while the proper part is three weeks awayand you know the difference between a good fix and a bad one.
A real work ethic. You know what a days work is and no task here is beneath you.
Independent thought. Were small enough that acceptable doesnt work. Wed rather you ask an obvious question than quietly do the wrong thing and wed rather you tell us the plan is wrong than execute it neatly.
You want to learn this properly. The building is getting more complicatedcleanrooms qualification a formal quality system. Wed like you to grow into that with us.

Where you might be coming from

Contract or analytical labs food and beverage processing brewing agriculture building or equipment maintenance a service or field-tech role the trades or the military. An apprenticeship a journeyman ticket a technologist diploma or none of the abovewe care about what youve kept running not which of those it was. Roughly 23 years of hands-on work of some kind and were more interested in the shape of it than the length.

Your future (with Future Fields)

This roadmap outlines the impact youll make as you grow with us. Well use this as a guide for your first year knowing that in a fast-paced environment well adapt and evolve these goals together.

Within 1 month you will:

Learn both buildingswhats in them what they do and which systems stop production when they fail. Youll walk them with Abbas and Brian until you know them better than either of them want to admit.
Take over receiving: packages logged temperature-sensitive shipments caught liquid nitrogen and gas cylinders handled without anyone else being pulled away from their desk.
Develop a working understanding of our technology and end-to-end process from strain development and insect rearing through processing purification and customer deliveryenough to know why the systems youre looking after matter.
Start the equipment and utility register and tell us the first three things you think we should fix.

Within 3 months you will:

Own receiving gas cylinders consumables ordering utilities accounts and waste pickup outright with a real view of what we use and what were paying.
Have a documented preventive maintenance schedule live for lab and production equipment and be executing it.
Be the first responder for anything broken and be handling most of the small repairs yourself.
Have the facilities request queue running through you so facilities questions stop landing on our engineering team.
Have written your first set of practical one-pagers attached to equipment records in Benchling and printed on the instruments.

Within 6 months you will:

Have the equipment and utility register complete across both buildings and the contact register live and actually used.
Have the preventive maintenance schedule extended to building systems with contractor service scheduled attended and recorded.
Have taken the basement from a junk pile to a managed space on a documented plana real visible win that has been waiting for someone to own it.
Be trusted with vendor relationships: you book the work youre there for it and you check what was done before we pay for it.
Have started supporting qualification work on live systems alongside our contractor and our Head of Quality.

Within 12 months you will:

Be the person the whole company goes to when something isnt right and the person who usually already knows about it.
Have meaningfully reduced the time our Senior Engineer and Lab Operations Lead spend on routine building and equipment workwhich is honestly the main reason were hiring.
Own the monitoring programs that come out of qualification: pressure differentials HEPA certification water sampling HVAC performance trending.
Have a documented history of the buildings. What we have what we did to it when and by whom.
Be a candidate for morewhether thats deeper into facilities and qualification into equipment and maintenance or somewhere else entirely. Wed rather grow this role around the right person than cap it.

About our team

Our story and approach to science are anything but conventional. Matt (co-founder/CEO) was a touring punk rock musician who dropped out of University before returning to complete his PhD in cell biology. Jalene (co-founder/COO) is a social researcher by training previously working on issues from the right to affordable housing to harm reduction. The spark of an idea for our technology came while waiting in line for tiny Canadian donuts. Our broader team of scientists engineers circus performers restaurateurs dancers music aficionados kid parents pet parents cyclists and artists hail from every corner of the world - from small town Alberta to Poland India Vietnam and Pakistan. We credit our diverse team and experiences as the key to our success - and we encourage candidates of all identities and backgrounds to apply.

FAQs

Where is Future Fields located

Our headquarters and production facility are located in downtown Edmonton Alberta in a renovated historic warehouse. From the exposed brick to our summer patioits not your average lab space. It is central close to transit and bike lanes and walking distance to some of the citys best coffee shops restaurants and Edmontons incredible river valley.

I dont have a ticket or a diploma. Should I apply

Yes. We are looking for someone smart practical and technically minded and we dont much care how you got that way. If youve kept things running somewhere and youre good with your hands and your head apply. Wed rather train the right person than hire the right paperwork.

Ive never worked in a lab or in biotech. Is that a problem

No. Most of what this job needs is transferablereceiving maintenance repairs records vendors. Well teach you the rest including the parts about cleanrooms and quality systems. Plenty of people here came from somewhere completely different.

Is this role on-site

Yes entirely. You cant fix a building remotely.

Is this a shift or on-call role

Standard weekday hours with the occasional early start when a delivery needs one. Buildings and freezers break inconveniently so there will be times we call you outside of hours. It isnt frequent and we dont take it for granted.

Any other perks

Many! Some include: comprehensive health dental and vision benefits; flexible paid time off policy; and the office is always stocked with snacks and all the coffee you can drink.

Will I like working for a startup

Great question. Startup life is definitely not for everyone. We move quickly. Projects and priorities shift fast. There is a lot of ambiguity and uncertainty at times and were not immune to the growing pains of a rapidly scaling startup. The risk is high but so is the reward. We promise you will never get bored. You will have fun and learn a lot. You will grow personally and professionally in ways you never imagined (alongside our company). You will be part of something much bigger than yourself and contribute directly to the mission of a team who cares deeply about changing the world for the better. Oh and equity!

Sound like something you are interested in Here are the next steps:

Apply online using our job portal.

Application deadline: This role will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.

If it seems like a good fit next steps will look somewhat like this:

We will contact you for a casual 15-minute video call.
Well bring you in and walk you through both buildings so we can talk about real equipment in front of real equipment.
Well arrange another interview to figure out how you fit with our team and culture and better understand your career trajectory.
We will set up a coffee chat with you and a team member. This is your chance to dig in and find out what its really like to work for Future Fields. This is for you!
We will speak with two of your references to confirm our assumption that you are in fact our next great hire.
We offer you a job!

We are committed to building a diverse team and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified individuals including those with disabilities and candidates from all backgrounds and identities. Please note that for this specific position we are unable to provide sponsorship for work authorization; candidates must currently be legally authorized to work in Canada.

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