Staff Facilities Engineer

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Position Summary:
This position is responsible for the functions of Facilities Engineering for APAC region and has overall responsibilities of the Illumina APAC Facilities Engineering requirements and standards for GMP manufacturing spaces and labs, infrastructure, and critical utilities. This position reports to Singapore APAC Global Facilities (GF) Leadership.

Position Responsibilities:

- Good experience in Facilities Support System such as ACMV, HVAC, Mechanical and Electrical System is required. System includes Compressed Dry Air, Nitrogen, Clean Room, Chilled Water, Waste Treatment etc.
- Provide technical leadership for the design, specification, installation, and

commissioning of electrical systems
- Lead and support projects involving various voltage power distribution, standby power systems, lighting, grounding, and equipment wiring.
- Coordinate with architects, MEP consultants, and contractors to ensure compliance with applicable codes
- Support facility upgrades, lab renovations, and utility expansions to meet evolving R&D and manufacturing needs.
- Conduct electrical load analysis, reliability assessments, and risk mitigation for critical systems (e.g., cleanrooms, HVAC, freezers, UPS systems).
- Develop preventive maintenance plans and support troubleshooting and root cause analysis of electrical system failures.
- Ensure designs comply with cGMP, FDA, and environmental health and safety requirements.
- Maintain and update facility electrical drawings, documentation, and change control records.
- Collaborate with the engineering team and key process owners, lead and implement strategic business improvement processes, policies and procedures.
- Lead and support of multi-functional efforts in engineering improvement, data capture and analysis, infrastructure support, and compliance with procedures, etc.
- Act as advisor on best practices by performing research and planning related to future initiatives.
- Leads engineering improvement initiatives through the disciplined use of measurements, accountability, analysis and discussion of engineering alternatives in order to arrive at best practices.
- Facilitator and consultant role to solve complex problem situations or conduct engineering study to identify bottle necks, inefficiencies and propose areas for improvement.
- Develop a sustainable Singapore Engineering Design Standards.
- Perform role of engineering project management for APAC regions to plan, lead and manage implementation of a specialized projects initiated from Facilities organization.
- Implement Continuous Improvement recommendations for optimizing engineering processes.
- Utilize analytics to provide fault detection and diagnostics of building control systems.
- Keeping abreast and updated on latest technologies and implement potential initiatives into existing designs.
- Perform Capacities and Capabilities efficiency management and optimization.
- Adopting Digitalization to optimize Engineering requirements.
- Support Facilities Projects and Operations Team on turnkey and infrastructure projects on Engineering specification and requirement.
- Regional lead in global and local Engineering Standards alignment and initiatives.
- Actively seek opportunities for continuously improving the specialist knowledge within own functional area.
- Management of contractors on outsourced services to ensure fulfillment of contracts terms and agreements.
- Plan, organize and ensure operation and system is operating at its highest efficiency.
- Ensure that all company procedures and policies are complied and carried out accordingly.
- Initiate execution and management of in-house projects.
- Participate in ISO, OHSAS, FDA certification programs.
- Participate in Facilities System and Equipment Validation projects.
- Support EHS and Security work scopes and projects.
- Mentor and coach junior engineers for knowledge sharing and improvement.
- Support Illumina Sustainability and CSR efforts.
- Perform other duties as assigned.

Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs.

Position Requirements:

- Strong Electrical engineering background and working experience, preferably in