Facilities Manager

About the role

The Facilities Manager role requires working full time on-site at the Skirball Center for Innovation based in Orangeburg, New York.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Manages the safety, operation, maintenance, and repair of the SCI facility including heating and cooling, pest control, plumbing, electrical, general cleaning, laboratory cleaning, structural improvements and modifications, security, and fire.
• Installs, moves, repairs, and removes equipment and utilities within the building.
• Develops and carries out annual, monthly, weekly and daily maintenance and operational plans for SCI.
• Selects, trains, and oversees the performance of facilities staff and contractors.
• Provides daily direction and assigns work priorities to staff and contractors, as well as oversees the delivery of facility-related services from contractors and service providers.
• Defines scope of work and required schedule for completion for contractors and service providers for all facility systems work.
• Selects, trains, and oversees the performance of facilities staff and contractors.
• Reviews cost estimates for contract work and drives cost reduction efforts, as well as ensures contractors and service providers deliver high quality, cost effective facility services.
• Aids Quality Assurance Manager with inspections, audits and corrective actions.
• Develops, maintains, and drives resolution deferred maintenance audit checklists; submits monthly inspection report based on observations, noting specific locations, conditions, recommendations for corrective action and estimated repair/replacement cost; as well as completes all documentation, including GLP documentation, related to the facility maintenance process including maintenance management system requirements, incident reports, equipment logs and discrepancies.
• Initiates and supports investigations related to GLP.
• Maintains 24/7 emergency response capabilities for the facility and promptly addresses any facility problems found during off shifts.
• Maintains daily and monthly logs on repairs required and performed on equipment and facility.
• Supports construction projects to ensure seamless final acceptance and move so that no unscheduled downtime results to operations.
• Reports any health or medical condition that may adversely affect a study to supervisor.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, or related field or equivalent experience preferred.
• 7 - 10 years of experience in facility maintenance in pharmaceutical, biotech, academic research or similar environment preferred.
• Technical expertise in HVAC/Utility systems and knowledge of GLPs as they relate to facility maintenance.
• Thorough working knowledge of all mechanical, HVAC, refrigeration, laboratory, and building control management systems as well as relevant building codes and related regulatory requirements.
• Creative problem solving, customer service, planning and influence skills.
• Ability to lead a team proven success in gaining cooperation of others.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook. Knowledge of Microsoft products and any facilities related software.
• Strong focus on flexibility, ability to multi-task, attention to detail, excellent organizational skills, good follow-up and judgment.
• Must be able to prioritize.
• Must possess excellent communication and writing skills, patience, professionalism and ability to effectively interact with staff and management alike.
• Ability to analyze complex information and solve problems relating to building and laboratory facilities.

Physical Demands And Work Environment

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to touch and feel, reach with hands and arms, talk and listen.
• The position requires the employee to work for long periods of time.
• The employee is occasionally required to lift up to 50 pounds.
• The vision requirements include close, distance, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to focus.
• The work environment is primarily an indoor, climate-controlled Vivarium and office setting.
• The lighting is appropriate.
• The noise level in certain animal and building equipment areas can be above normal.
• There are hazards, and protective gear may be required to be worn or used.
• There is also an outdoor component to this job and may include limited exposure to local inclement weather, i.e. rain, heat, cold, snow.