Job Details
Job Title: Facilities Manager I
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Job ID: 301631
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:
- Students are our top priority.
- We strive for excellence.
- We thrive on diversity.
- We celebrate collaboration.
- We champion innovation.
- We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
- We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
- We act ethically.
- 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
Established in 1990, the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts is a pioneer of liberal arts education and research at the nexus of the technical and human sciences. The academic programs are internationally acclaimed as models for liberal arts education in a technological age. Founded with the principles of its namesake, former Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., the College of Liberal Arts believes in the power of transformative urban leadership that is rooted in courage, compassion, and human and social justice. The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts exemplifies Mayor Allen's legacy through its cross-disciplinary teaching, research, and service. In a research-intensive environment, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts faculty and students examine a wide range of social and humanistic issues, defining their impact on society, culture, and policy, and exploring solutions in the public interest.
The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts comprises Georgia Tech's three Reserve Officers' Training Corps units (Air Force, Army, and Navy), six schools (Economics; History and Sociology; Literature, Media, and Communication; Modern Languages; Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy; and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs), and two centers (Center for Advanced Communications Policy and Writing and Communication Program).
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 - Manage and update emergency preparedness plan for facility(facilities) and all related documents and procedures
Job Duty 3 - Perform other duties as assigned
Job Duty 4 - Arrange for office moves within facility; ensure they are carried out as scheduled
Job Duty 5 - Coordinate delivery and installation of building equipment
Job Duty 6 - Maintain building access control system including card entry and office key management
Job Duty 7 - Facilitate arrangements of special events scheduled for facility
Job Duty 8 - Order building repair services as needed
Job Duty 9 - Coordinate outside vendor/contractor services
Job Duty 10 - Coordinate annual equipment inventory and maintain related records
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
Preferred Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's degree
Preferred Experience
Five to seven years of job-related experience
This job requires advanced working knowledge of building operations and general maintenance requirements. Skills in customer service, communications, contractor relations, building security and safety, and records maintenance are required, as is the use of office-related computer applications.
Required Documents to Attach
Cover letter, resume, and a list of three references.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
Knowledge/Abilities
- Manage building services and maintenance functions (both routine and emergency); in coordination with the area maintenance team. Ensure activities are reported and carried out in a complete and timely manner. Order, track all building repair, landscape, janitorial, and pest control services as needed.
- Maintain occupancy data, conduct building walkthroughs, generate reports, request services and follow through for the completion.
- Arrange for relocation, surplus and office moves within the facilities; ensure they are carried out as scheduled
- Coordinate delivery and installation of building equipment
- Maintain the building safety and access control system including card entry and office key services and requests
- Facilitate arrangements of special events scheduled for facility
- Coordinate outside vendor/contractor services to support service requests
- Coordinate annual facilities equipment inventory and maintain related records (excluding IT/AV inventory).
- Manage and update emergency preparedness plan for facility (facilities) like Red Book, COOP and all related documents and procedures
- Manage and coordinate IAC Fleet vehicle services- maintain, permit, registration, PM services, reservations etc.
Skills
- This job requires skills in organization, communications, staging operations, general building maintenance processes and scheduling. Use of office related computer applications is required.
Apply Before Date
Applicants are encouraged to apply by August 15, 2026, for priority consideration; however, the search will continue until the position is filled.
Contact Information
Inquiries about the position may be directed to Priti Bhatia, Director of Facilities and Capital Planning, pbhatia3@gatech.edu.
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