Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas:

• Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology
• Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture
• Climate Change & Managing CO₂
• Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org.

Your Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer with an Electrical Bias to join our Engineering and Maintenance Team.

This is a critical role, with core working hours of Monday - Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm, providing essential engineering and maintenance support within our office and Laboratory facilities. The position is designed to ensure continuity of operations, safe management of activities, and effective oversight of contractors (which requires some occassional days during weekends)

The successful candidate will possess strong electrical engineering skills combined with a broad understanding of mechanical and building services systems. You will be responsible for maintaining laboratories, office environments, and associated building infrastructure, ensuring all systems remain safe, compliant, and fully operational.

This role requires a self-motivated individual who can make informed decisions, managing priorities independently, and maintaining high standards of safety and service delivery with minimal supervision, as well as working collaboratively as a team.

Key Responsibilities:

Maintenance and Engineering

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance across electrical, mechanical, and building services systems.
• Diagnose faults and undertake repairs to electrical systems, building infrastructure, plant, equipment, and laboratory facilities.
• Maintain critical site services to ensure maximum reliability, operational performance, and compliance.
• Assist with the installation, commissioning, modification, and improvement of site equipment and systems.