Building Manager

Building Manager

School of Engineering, Stanford, California, United States

Note:

This position has been deemed critical by the School of Engineering Dean’s Office and is exempt from the hiring freeze.

Stanford Engineering has been at the forefront of innovation for nearly a century, creating pivotal technologies that have transformed the worlds of information technology, communications, health care, energy, business and beyond. Our faculty and students are creative risk‑takers who pursue excellence across a breadth of disciplines. Our alumni include some of the world's most successful leaders in technology and business. Our staff are critical to enabling Stanford Engineering to accomplish its mission: seeking solutions to some of the world's most urgent challenges and educating leaders who will make the world a better place through the power of engineering principles, techniques and systems.

Stanford's School of Engineering seeks a Building Manager with experience managing a large, interdisciplinary facility with complex instrumentation and labs. The Building Manager provides excellent customer service to building residents and works as part of a collaborative team of building managers, safety specialists, and project managers. Although each Building Manager has assigned facilities in which they reside and focus, they work within a select team, participate in regular cross training, and provide back‑up coverage for each other.

The Building Manager will have primary responsibility for seven buildings in the School of Engineering Quad (SEQ). These buildings consist of offices, unique research facilities, maker spaces, and teaching spaces for both undergraduate and graduate students. In this role the Building Manager will be supporting faculty, staff, and students from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The Building Manager will have significant responsibility in developing, streamlining, and improving operations of their assigned facilities.

The Building Manager is expected to work independently to ensure that assigned facilities are appropriately maintained, sustainable, efficient, safe, secure, code‑compliant, and accessible. The Building Manager also facilitates moderately complex construction and renovation projects, participates in complex renovation projects, interprets facilities policies and guidelines, and makes enhancements to facilities procedures. The Building Manager reports to the School of Engineering’s Associate Director of Facilities Operations.

We seek candidates that have taken actions toward continuous improvement in their previous positions.

• Serve as property operations / maintenance point of contact for facilities’ issues in complex facilities as defined above; initiate work requests, monitor completion; manage maintenance and renovations budget; coordinate and monitor routine maintenance services completion (trash, utilities, custodial, pest control, long term preservation, inspections, grounds, landscapes, alarms, systems & equipment), suggest metrics, monitor and report related trends.
• Perform condition assessments on appearance, equipment, or troubleshooting; analyze results and decide status; identify and establish preventive maintenance plan; coordinate & integrate utility usage/optimization (monitor usage, gather info, provide recommendations, follow-up, shutdown requirements), analyze date and provide recommendations; coordinate, direct, inspect and approve contract work, third party vendors; identify, recommend & implement building operations & process modifications to the facility for increased productivity and/or cost reduction, manage related budget;
  
  coordinate maintenance logistics (to avoid faculty conflicts, events).
• Handle property administration by troubleshooting, completing tagging, data entry & inventory; completing purchase orders, receiving; completing record keeping; establishing tracking system, gathering information and, information gathering and support for space allocation decision makers.
• Implement facility security programs by developing procedures/practices, distributing keys, providing building access, monitoring…