What you will do: - Build strong relationships across Facilities Management and campus partners to identify current and future facility, infrastructure, and space needs.
- Assess the condition of buildings, grounds, infrastructure, and related assets across an assigned portfolio of approximately 2.4 million square feet.
- Identify maintenance, renewal, and replacement needs while maintaining accurate facility condition records and planning documentation.
- Develop planning recommendations, project scopes, and order-of-magnitude cost estimates to support informed decision-making.
- Collaborate with Facilities Management leadership, technical experts, and campus stakeholders to evaluate complex facility challenges and develop practical solutions.
- Prepare reports, presentations, and planning materials that communicate facility conditions, maintenance needs, risks, and investment recommendations.
- Support a culture of collaboration, inclusion, and respect by working effectively with colleagues and stakeholders from diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
What we need: - Bachelor's degree and 5 to 7 years relevant experience or equivalent combination. Required to demonstrate proficiency of knowledge of University policies and procedures surrounding project work.
- Working knowledge of facility condition assessment, building systems, infrastructure, general construction practices, maintenance planning, and capital renewal concepts.
- Demonstrated ability to assess facility needs, document deficiencies and condition findings, evaluate priorities, and develop planning recommendations using condition data, stakeholder input, operational impact, and resource considerations.
- Ability to develop baseline scopes, planning assumptions, order-of-magnitude cost estimates, reports, presentation materials, and supporting documentation for maintenance, renewal, and capital planning efforts.
- Experience using excel, databases, project management tools, and/or facilities management software to support planning, analysis, documentation, and reporting.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders, including Facilities Management staff, campus partners, technical resources, project teams, and unit leadership.
- Strong judgment, communication, and organizational skills, including the ability to work through ambiguity, manage multiple priorities, and communicate concerns clearly to a range of audiences.
- Ability to work independently, demonstrate initiative, and support consistent work processes and procedures.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a valid New York State driver's license; use of a personal vehicle may be required.
- Experience incorporating the perspectives of multiple communities.
If you have all those things, great! We have a few more things that we would prefer you to have, but it's ok if you don't. - Experience in a higher education, research, healthcare, government, or similarly complex institutional environment.
- Experience supporting capital projects, facility assessments, deferred maintenance planning, or asset management programs.
- Familiarity with systems such as IBM Maximo, e-Builder, or similar facilities and project management platforms.
- Experience participating in project design reviews, construction coordination, project turnover, or QA/QC activities.
Rewards and Benefits - This position is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement. Employees typically perform this role remotely 1 day per week and on-campus 4 days per week. The university reserves the right to modify, suspend, revoke or terminate the hybrid work arrangement at any time.
- Cornell receives national recognition as an award-winning workplace for our health, wellbeing, and sustainability. Our benefits programs include comprehensive health care options, generous retirement contributions, access to wellness programs, and employee discounts with local and national retail brands. We invite you to follow this link to get more information about our benefits: Understand Your Benefits | Working at Cornell.
- Our leave provisions include health and personal leave, three weeks of vacation and 13 holidays: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the day after, and an end of the year winter break from December 25-January 1. To offer greater flexibility for observing faiths and traditions we also offer two additional floating holidays. Learn more about our generous leave provisions: Holiday and Accrued Time Off | Working at Cornell
- Cornell's impressive educational benefits include tuition-free Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program, tuition aid for external education, and Cornell Children's Tuition Assistance Program. Learn more about our extensive educational benefits: Education Benefits | Working at Cornell
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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
University Job Title:Mgr Facilities II
Job Family:Facilities & Safety Services
Level:G
Pay Rate Type:Salary
Pay Range:$96,201.00 - $117,579.00
Remote Option Availability:Hybrid
Contact Name:Tonya Eiklor
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