Building Manager

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Company: Tekberry

Location: Palo Alto, CA 94303

Description:

Title: Building Manager
Pay Rate: $50/hr
Job Type: ~6 week contract
Duration: Mar - Apr 2025
Shift(s): Mon - Fri, *flexible 7am to 6am
Location: Palo Alto, CA 94305

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Tekberry is looking for a highly qualified and motivated individual to work with our client, a world-class university and research center. As a W2 employee you will have access to health benefits. Benefits include health, dental, and vision (eligible on the 1st of the month following your start date).

Job Description:

The School of Engineering seeks a temporary 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. This person will have primary responsibility for multiple buildings used by the Mechanical Engineering department.

The Building Manager is expected to work independently to ensure that all facilities within the SEQ are appropriately maintained, sustainable, efficient, safe, secure, code-compliant and accessible. The temporary Building Manager will report to the Associate Director of Operations.

We are looking for a worker to support the Mechanical Engineering facilities group on a temporary basis, due the retirement of one team member. In this role you will perform specialized, diverse work activities and coordinate solutions, working independently, supporting the operations, maintenance, repair, upkeep, and refurbishing activities related to the physical environment and building systems of a complex facility. The facilities overseen by this person have research operations that utilize hazardous materials and potentially dangerous equipment. This is an individual contributor role but will work closely with other building managers and safety specialists.

Core Duties:
  • 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 (utilities, custodial, pest control, long term preservation, inspections, landscapes, alarms, systems & equipment),
  • 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
  • Implement facility security programs by distributing keys, providing building access, monitoring access records, assessing security infrastructure needs (interlocks, alarms); and recommending changes as needed
  • Coordinate with the school's safety specialists to: correct identified safety issues, perform root cause analysis, identify and track corrective actions; and maintain and participate in emergency preparedness, recovery and business continuity coordination

Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree and five years related, demonstrated technical facilities management experience, or a combination of education and relevant experience.
  • Analytical skills to analyze and track complex space, equipment and financial data.
  • Interpersonal skills, mature judgment required to interact effectively with a broad range of people, including faculty and vendors, both individually and in groups.
  • Ability to coordinate and manage multiple projects with competing priorities, meet deadlines and project plans with short- and long-term end dates.
  • Working knowledge of applications such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
  • Experience working with internal and external vendors and services contracting.
  • Background knowledge of safe handling and disposal of chemicals and hazardous waste; emergency preparedness plans and their implementation; and property administration specific to PO tracking, receiving, and inventory control.
  • Valid California Non-commercial Class Driver's license.
  • May require 24-hour response availability seven days per week for emergency situations.


TEKBERRY OFFERS A REWARD FOR REFERRALS!

Tekberry, Inc. a Soal Technologies company, is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other protected categories under all applicable laws.

Tekberry, Inc is a Certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE).

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