Master Facilities Maintenance Tech

At Zygo, your skills and insights will be integral to our core values of curiosity, collaboration, and persistence. For over 50 years, Zygo Corporation in Middlefield, CT, has been a global leader in designing and manufacturing advanced optical metrology systems, ultra-precise optical components, and complex electro-optical systems and assemblies. Join our team, where your expertise will drive cutting-edge solutions, address complex technical challenges, and uphold the highest standards of precision and safety.

As a Master Maintenance Technician at our Richmond, CA location, you will serve as the site technical expert for maintenance planning, equipment troubleshooting, facility systems, and the Computerized Management System (CMMS). You will provide day-to-day technical directions and partner across functions to maintain safe, reliable, and efficient operations while improving equipment uptime and maintenance effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities: Safety, People, Quality, Delivery, Value

Safety

- Perform maintenance work in accordance with company safety requirements and applicable OSHA, Cal/OSHA, environmental, and regulatory standards.

- Support lockout/tagout, fire-protection systems, emergency-response programs, regulatory inspections, and corrective actions.

- Identify and help resolve equipment, facility, and work-practice risks.

People

- Provide technical direction, help prioritize maintenance activities, and coordinate work with maintenance personnel, contractors, and site stakeholders.

- Serve as a technical resource for complex equipment and facility troubleshooting.

- Share technical knowledge, support cross-training, and communicate maintenance priorities, risks, and equipment status.

Quality

- Plan and execute preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities.

- Conduct root-cause analysis of recurring failures and implement sustainable corrective actions.

- Maintain accurate asset records, preventive-maintenance schedules, maintenance history, and work-order documentation.

Delivery

- Troubleshoot, repair, and maintain manufacturing equipment and mechanical, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, compressed-air, control, and facility utility systems.

- Prioritize and coordinate planned and unplanned maintenance to minimize downtime and operational disruption.

- Monitor preventive-maintenance compliance, work-order completion, backlog, equipment uptime, Mean Time Between Failures, and Mean Time to Repair.

Value

- Administer the site CMMS and maintain accurate asset, work-order, maintenance-history, dashboard, and KPI data.

- Coordinate contractors, service providers, vendors, and work supporting capital-equipment installations and facility improvements.

- Identify opportunities to improve reliability, maintenance effectiveness, resource utilization, and cost performance.

Core Competencies

- Safety First Mindset: Identifies risks, follows safety requirements, and reinforces safe work practices.

- Technical Expertise and Problem Solving: Applies advanced technical knowledge to troubleshoot complex issues, identify root causes, and implement effective solutions.

- Accountability and Results: Takes ownership, follows through on commitments, and completes work thoroughly and accurately.

- Prioritization and Adaptability: Prioritizes work based on safety, operational impact, equipment criticality, and changing business needs.

- Communication and Collaboration: Coordinates effectively across functions and shifts, keeps stakeholders informed, and shares technical knowledge.

- Continuous Improvement: Demonstrates curiosity and persistence in improving maintenance practices, equipment reliability, and operational performance.

Required Skills and Qualifications

- High school diploma or GED.

- Minimum seven years of progressively responsible industrial, facilities, or manufacturing maintenance experience.

- Advanced knowledge of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, compressed-air, control, and facility utility systems.

- Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and control-system issues.

- Experience using a CMMS to manage maintenance activities, asset records, work orders, and performance data.

- Experience coordinating work performed by maintenance personnel, contractors, vendors, or service providers.

- Ability to interpret equipment documentation, schematics, manuals, specifications, and maintenance procedures.

- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and experience developing or maintaining maintenance dashboards and KPIs.

- Ability to manage competing priorities, respond to urgent operational needs, and work independently.

- Strong communication, collaboration, organizational, and technical-leadership skills.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

- Technical degree, trade certification, apprenticeship, or equivalent advanced technical training.

- Experience in semiconductor, optics, precision manufacturing, aerospace, or another high-technology manufacturing environment.

- Experience with preventive, predictive, or reliability-centered maintenance programs.

- Experience supporting capital-equipment installations or facility-improvement projects.

- OSHA 30, Certified Maintenance & Reliability Technician, Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional, or comparable certification.

Physical and Work Requirements

- Ability to work safely in manufacturing, facility, mechanical, and utility environments.

- Ability to stand, walk, bend, climb ladders, and access equipment and mechanical spaces.

- Ability to lift and move materials or equipment weighing up to 50 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation.

- Ability to use required tools and personal protective equipment.

- Ability to respond to urgent equipment or facility needs based on established scheduling and on-call requirements.

Bring your passion and commitment to Zygo, where we are curious, collaborative, persistent, and confident, and where safety and quality guide every step of our journey. Grow with us as we solve complex challenges, inspire confidence, and drive excellence in manufacturing. Are you ready to expand the boundaries of possibility, simplify the complex, and embody the values that define our success? We welcome your unique perspective and invite you to join us!

We offer competitive compensation, benefits, retirement (401(k)), and paid time off programs. Compensation and position level will be set based on experience.

Due to the nature of Zygo’s programs and products, applicants must have the legal right to work in the United States and must be legally authorized to access export-controlled information and source code.