Manager, Building Operations, Energy & Sustainability

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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is Harvard’s largest school, comprising a diverse portfolio of research laboratories, libraries, residential and athletic facilities, offices, classrooms, museums, and other specialized facilities. The FAS facilities portfolio includes more than 250 buildings and approximately 10 million square feet.

The Manager, Building Operations, Energy & Sustainability, is an integral member of the FAS Office of Physical Resources and Planning (OPRP) and Office for Sustainability (OFS) teams. Within the FAS Infrastructure and Sustainability (I&S) team, the position supports energy efficiency and decarbonization through portfolio-level energy management, recommending building-performance priorities and strategy for the FAS building portfolio, and identifying corrective actions to optimize building performance.

Reporting to the Associate Director of Building Mechanical Systems and the Director of OFS, the Manager is responsible for regular monitoring, and reporting portfolio energy performance and utility forecasting, identifying and coordinating investigation of energy anomalies, recommending building-performance priorities, and evaluating the results of the I&S team’s operational and sustainability initiatives. The role works closely with the I&S team as well as Facilities Operations, Building Managers, project managers, Energy & Utilities, OFS, consultants, and service providers to improve building operation and energy performance, and support decarbonization goals.

• Leads portfolio-level energy management for FAS, including monitoring electricity, steam, chilled water, natural gas, and other relevant energy and utility data. EnergyCAP is the energy and utility software system primarily used.
• Identifies trends and building-level energy anomalies (i.e. unusual consumption) and coordinates timely investigation within the I&S team, Building Manager(s), and other FAS and/or University stakeholders as required to resolve the anomaly.
• Based on analysis, identifies within the I&S team when buildings or systems require additional technical analysis, recommissioning, and/or maintenance intervention.
• Responsible for implementing a structured process for documenting anomalies, assigning follow-up actions, tracking resolution, and verifying performance after corrective measures are implemented.
• Develops and maintains energy-performance dashboards, reports, key performance indicators, and management tools.
• Prepares quarterly energy-consumption forecasts and variance analyses to inform utility budgets using relevant influences such as historical performance, weather, occupancy, operating changes, and/or other relevant assumptions. Works with the I&S and OPRP Finance team to develop and update/revise utility budgets throughout the fiscal year.
• Develops presentation and communications of case study projects/programs, portfolio energy…