Ready to be the person who keeps the whole place running? Nothing we do works if the water, power and freezers don't.

Changing the world—one fruit fly at a time.

We're unleashing the next biorevolution.

Come find your purpose with Future Fields.

About the role

This role will own

• 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 Benchling—lot number, expiry, certificate of analysis—so what's on the shelf and what's in the system agree.
• Hold material until it's 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 -20°C freezer and get it there immediately.
• Be the person on site for deliveries that don't book a time: liquid nitrogen, gas cylinders, equipment.

• 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 systems—and 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 it's past you, and get the right person in.

• 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 Brian's, and you'll learn a great deal working alongside him on them.
• Small repairs are yours. Leaks, blocked drains, a door that won't latch, a failed sensor, the daily unglamorous list.
• Own the spaces nobody owns—basement, storage areas, loading dock, front room—on a schedule, not when it becomes a flood.
• Own the facilities request queue, so facilities questions stop landing on our engineering team.

• Support consumables inventory across both buildings: what we have, what's running out, and what hasn't 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.

• Write the one-pagers that don't exist yet—what 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 buildings—what we have, where it is, what it's connected to, and what it draws. Nobody has ever written this down in one place, and we need it.
• Maintain one live contact register—suppliers, sales reps, service techs—mapped 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 isn't written down, it didn't happen.

• Supporting qualification of our facilities and utilities—cleanroom pressure differentials, HEPA certification, water system sampling, HVAC performance. A contractor authors the protocols; you'll 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

• Hands-on maintenance or facilities work—a 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 can't 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 down—records, logs, procedures, checklists—somewhere that someone else relied on.
• Worked without much day-to-day direction. You'll have a manager and you'll have support, but most days nobody is standing over you deciding what's next.
• Comfortable with the physical parts of the job: lifting, ladders, cylinders, cold rooms, an early start when a delivery needs one.

• Resourcefulness. You can improvise a working fix out of what's on hand while the proper part is three weeks away—and you know the difference between a good fix and a bad one.
• A real work ethic. You know what a day's work is, and no task here is beneath you.
• Independent thought. We're small enough that "acceptable" doesn't work. We'd rather you ask an obvious question than quietly do the wrong thing, and we'd rather you tell us the plan is wrong than execute it neatly.
• You want to learn this properly. The building is getting more complicated—cleanrooms, qualification, a formal quality system. We'd like you to grow into that with us.

Your future (with Future Fields)

• Learn both buildings—what's in them, what they do, and which systems stop production when they fail. You'll 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 delivery—enough to know why the systems you're looking after matter.
• Start the equipment and utility register, and tell us the first three things you think we should fix.

• Own receiving, gas cylinders, consumables ordering, utilities accounts and waste pickup outright, with a real view of what we use and what we're 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.

• 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 plan—a real, visible win that has been waiting for someone to own it.
• Be trusted with vendor relationships: you book the work, you're 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.

• Be the person the whole company goes to when something isn't 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 work—which is, honestly, the main reason we're 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 more—whether that's deeper into facilities and qualification, into equipment and maintenance, or somewhere else entirely. We'd rather grow this role around the right person than cap it.

About our team

FAQs

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

• We will contact you for a casual 15-minute video call.
• We'll bring you in and walk you through both buildings, so we can talk about real equipment in front of real equipment.
• We'll 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 it's 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!

Compensation

$60,000.00 - $78,000.00 per year