Facility Manager

Full-time
On-site
CO - Golden United States of America
Green Energy Jobs

Posting Title

Facility Manager

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Location

CO - Golden

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Position Type

Regular

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Hours Per Week

40

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Working at NREL

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado is the nation's primary laboratory for energy systems research and development.

Join the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), where world-class scientists, engineers, and experts are accelerating energy innovation through breakthrough research and systems integration. From our mission to our collaborative culture, NREL stands out in the research community for its commitment to an affordable and secure energy future. Spanning foundational science to applied systems engineering and analysis, we focus on solving complex challenges to deliver advanced, secure, reliable, and cost-effective energy solutions. Our work helps strengthen U.S. industries, support job creation, and promote national economic growth.

At NREL, you’ll find a mission-driven environment supported by state-of-the-art facilities, multidisciplinary research teams, and strong collaborations with industry, academia, and other national laboratories. We offer robust professional development opportunities, and a competitive benefits package designed to support your career and well-being.

Learn about NREL’s critical objectives: NREL's Mission and Vision.

Job Description

NREL’s Site Operations group is looking for a senior Facilities Manager to oversee all facility-related activities, primarily for industrial-type facilities like laboratory buildings, computing facilities, or central utility plants. Responsibilities include collaborating with researchers, program managers, technicians, engineers, and environmental safety and health personnel for activities conducted within buildings, conducting plan of the week meetings with stakeholders, ensuring that facilities are safe and functioning well, and resolving issues received from building occupants. The successful candidate will be well-versed in technical/engineering operations and facilities management best practices, capable of inspecting buildings’ systems and structures to determine repairs or renovations, and have excellent verbal and written communication and organizational skills. This position may also support facility manager duties at landlord-type facilities like office buildings, conference/educational facilities, and parking structures.

General responsibilities include:

  • Planning building maintenance and operational programs.

  • Ensuring efficiency of all building systems, including energy systems, sequencing, and executing on results of energy audits.

  • Coordinating site safety programs in collaboration with ESH&Q, ensuring research activities and mechanical operations are reviewed and approved for safe execution.

  • Preparing operating reports and budgets, creating operational deficiency reports, identifying estimates for equipment replacement and maintenance work, and soliciting funds.

  • Ensuring all processes and compliance programs are met in collaboration with research planning and site operations to ensure workflows are supportive of research.

  • Managing facilities planning and space allocation in collaboration with space planners in site operations.

  • Coordinating with department heads and building contractors to ensure work timelines do not affect research operations.

  • Ensuring all utility systems are inspected and in accordance with regulations.

  • Overseeing all building functions integral to infrastructure.

  • Coordinating all maintenance issues and schedules in collaboration with general maintenance, mechanical, and electrical trade teams.

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Basic Qualifications

Relevant Bachelor's Degree and 9 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant Master's Degree and 7 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant PhD and 4 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant JD and 4 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Applies extensive technical expertise, and has full knowledge of other related disciplines. Contributes to the development of new concepts, techniques and standards. Considered internal subject matter expert. Extensive knowledge of laws, regulations, principles, procedures and practices related to specific field. Excellent leadership, project management and problem solving skills. Ability to use various computer software programs.

* Must meet educational requirements prior to employment start date.

Additional Required Qualifications

  • 9 or more years of work experience in facility management, facility engineering, or other closely related fields.
  • Extensive experience working with technical, laboratory, and/or research facilities.
  • Experience working with building automation systems (BAS) and integration from an operational perspective (rather than a design/engineering role - this role is not designing BAS).
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Extensive experience negotiating with stakeholders and working with teams to solve problems.

Preferred Qualifications

  • International Facility Management Association (IFMA) certified Facility Manager (or equivalent).

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Job Application Submission Window

The anticipated closing window for application submission is up to 30 days and may be extended as needed.

Annual Salary Range (based on full-time 40 hours per week)

Job Profile: Professional IV / Annual Salary Range: $97,800 - $176,000

NREL takes into consideration a candidate’s education, training, and experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. In compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.

Benefits Summary

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; short*- and long-term disability insurance; pension benefits*; 403(b) Employee Savings Plan with employer match*; life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance; personal time off (PTO) and sick leave; paid holidays; and tuition reimbursement*. NREL employees may be eligible for, but are not guaranteed, performance-, merit-, and achievement- based awards that include a monetary component. Some positions may be eligible for relocation expense reimbursement. Limited-term positions are not eligible for long-term disability or tuition reimbursement.

* Based on eligibility rules

Badging Requirement

NREL is subject to Department of Energy (DOE) access restrictions. All employees must also be able to obtain and maintain a federal Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card as required by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), which includes a favorable background investigation.

Drug Free Workplace

NREL is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace in accordance with the federal Drug-Free Workplace Act and complies with federal laws prohibiting the possession and use of illegal drugs. Under federal law, marijuana remains an illegal drug.

If you are offered employment at NREL, you must pass a pre-employment drug test prior to commencing employment. Unless prohibited by state or local law, the pre-employment drug test will include marijuana. If you test positive on the pre-employment drug test, your offer of employment may be withdrawn.

Submission Guidelines

Please note that in order to be considered an applicant for any position at NREL you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified. Applications are not kept on file for future positions. Please include a cover letter and resume with each position application.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard basis of age (40 and over), color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic partner status, military or veteran status, national origin/ancestry, race, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding), sexual orientation, and any other applicable status protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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