Facilities Manager I

About Us

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Department Information

This role is ideal for someone who is organized, service-oriented, and able to manage multiple facility needs in a dynamic campus environment. The successful candidate will serve as a reliable point of contact for building operations, coordinate service needs and follow-up, execute event setup and breakdown for a multi-use facility, maintain records, work effectively with campus partners and vendors, and use a variety of software systems to support daily operations.

Job Summary

Facilitate and coordinate building operations within an assigned facility. Includes coordination of building maintenance and repairs, office moves, delivery and installation of furniture and equipment., building access control and deliveries. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: building occupants and visitors, department heads, contractors and vendors. This position typically will advise and counsel: contractors, vendors and visitors. This position will supervise: NA.

Responsibilities

• Job Duty 1 - Manage building maintenance functions (both routine and emergency); ensure activities are carried out in a complete and timely manner.
• Job Duty 2 - Coordinate annual equipment inventory and maintain related records
• Job Duty 3 - Manage and update emergency preparedness plan for facility(facilities) and all related documents and procedures
• Job Duty 4 - Perform other duties as assigned
• Job Duty 5 - Arrange for office moves within facility; ensure they are carried out as scheduled
• Job Duty 6 - Coordinate delivery and installation of building equipment
• Job Duty 7 - Maintain building access control system including card entry and office key management
• Job Duty 8 - Facilitate arrangements of special events scheduled for facility
• Job Duty 9 - Order building repair services as needed
• Job Duty 10 - Coordinate outside vendor/contractor services

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements
High school diploma, GED Certificate or Vocational School Diploma

Other Required Qualifications
Valid Georgia Driver's License Work involves adherence to applicable safety precautions. Typically requires lifting objects up to 25 pounds and standing for extended periods of time.

Required Experience
Three to five years job related experience

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

Skills
This job requires skills in organization, communications, staging operations, general building maintenance processes, and scheduling. Use of office-related computer applications is required.

Knowledge and Abilities
This role is ideal for someone who is organized, service-oriented, and able to manage multiple facility needs in a dynamic campus environment. The successful candidate will serve as a reliable point of contact for building operations, coordinate service needs and follow-up, execute event setup and breakdown for a multi-use facility, maintain records, work effectively with campus partners and vendors, and use a variety of software systems to support daily operations.