Facility Planning Manager

About the role

This role is designated as essential and requires incumbents to report to work onsite. Telecommuting is not available for this role.

Core Duties

• Oversee, coordinate, and perform technical aspects of the testing and inspections program of life safety systems, including smoke detectors, exit signs, inverters, and emergency lighting.
• Document inspection results, maintenance activities, and service reports of life safety systems in accordance with regulatory standards.
• Perform the full range of project management cycle: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and controlling, and closing.
• Lead projects requiring functional integration.
• Complete sub-project and/or stand-alone elements (or a contained project such as construction project).
• Direct development of an action plan, and estimate requirements for resources, including management, labor, materials, and time required to complete project.
• Facilitate discussions and negotiations to drive recommendation consensus within scope of responsibility.
• Develop and help execute comprehensive change management strategy and communication plan relative to project scope and stakeholders on a focused project; actively manage resistance to change.

Additional Duties

• Cook up to 8 million meals annually at 48 student dining venues and 32 culinary enterprises.
• Coordinate scheduling of asset assessments with inspection teams and user groups including summer conferences, operations, and other user schedules.
• Track assessment information and incorporate information into Asset Renewal model.
• Contribute to project scope development based on assessment program and desired outcomes.
• Identify collateral impacts in project scoping due to renewal of building subsystems.
• Direct development of a five-to-seven-year action plan.
• Liaise with campus partners as necessary for subsystem assessments and future desired outcomes.
• Review, evaluate, approve, and monitor contracts, cost schedule, and technical scope baselines.
• Cook up to 8 million meals annually at 48 student dining venues and 32 culinary enterprises.
• Coordinate scheduling of testing and inspections with user groups including summer conferences, operations, and other user schedules such as Maintenance and Project Delivery.
• Track information for regulatory compliance and reporting.
• Provide regulatory compliance reporting and follow-up.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and three years of related experience in development and management of projects of moderate size/complexity with limited performance risk, including project planning, scheduling, tracking, and budgeting, or combination of education and relevant experience.
• Five or more years of experience is highly desired.
• Polished written and oral communication skills to address a wide variety of audiences.
• Ability to productively engage and influence cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated project management ability to employ integration, scope time management, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, and procurement components.
• Demonstrated resilience, diplomacy, influence, relationship building, and problem-solving skills in a variety of situations.
• Depth of knowledge in technical discipline/domain needed to deliver projects.
• Design or engineer professional license or contractor license is highly desired.

Desired Attributes

• Builds and sustains respectful and collaborative relationships/networks, internal and external to R&DE.
• Manages relationship boundaries.
• Leads change.
• Coaches, gives and accepts performance feedback; trains and develops staff.

Physical Requirements

• Frequently stand/walk, sit, perform desk-based computer tasks and lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 10 pounds.
• Sometimes use a telephone, write by hand, twist/bend/stoop/squat, grasp lightly/fine manipulation and lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 20 pounds.
• Rarely kneel, crawl, climb ladders, reach/work above shoulder, grasp forcefully, carry, push, and pull objects that weigh up to 40 pounds or more.
• May work extended hours, evenings, and weekends.

Working Conditions

• May work in active laboratories or outdoor environments.
• May be exposed to extreme hot and cold temperatures, be exposed to high voltage electricity, radiation or electromagnetic fields, lasers, noise > 80dB TWA, allergens/biohazards/chemicals /asbestos, or heavy metals or work on roofs at heights greater than 10 ft.
• May drive vehicle day and night.
• Must wear personal protective equipment as defined/required by job assignments, and dress for clean rooms.

Subject to and Expected to Comply with All Applicable University Policies and Procedures

• The expected pay range for this position is $130K to $140K per annum.