Facilities Management Engineer

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Department:

Capital Renewal & Deferred Maintenance

Time Type:

Full time

Work Modality:

Full On Campus Presence

Union:

Excluded

Job Description:

Summary:

Working under minimal direct supervision, the Facilities Management Engineer (“FE”) assists the Director of (TBD) with project development and management, performance metrics analysis, energy analytics, conceptual design, budgeting, and scheduling for renovation and facilities projects. The FE will take a large role in coordinating with Facilities Management project managers on all phases of the project life cycle, including with the planning and execution of projects from inception through occupancy, with a focus on scope, build-ability, scheduling, cost estimating and coordination.  The FE may also be assigned as a project manager from time to time as the needs of the department dictate.  The FE will develop and analyze plans, opportunities for energy savings and scopes of work related to construction projects as necessary to support the project management functions of the Facilities Management department. The position coordinates and assists in maintaining relationships with the client and stakeholders.   

Essential Functions:

• Project Requests: Oversees Project Initiation Process (PIP) and responds to internal university client’s new project (2build) requests and responsible for developing the scope of work, total project cost estimating, schedule development, funding source for approval by university clients.

• Project Management: Responsible for management of the project delivery process including design, construction, occupancy and close-out phases of renovation projects. Reviews documents developed by the project teams including standards, design documents, technical specifications and bid documents to ensure accuracy, completeness and conformance to project goals. Manages the work of the construction management team consisting of other professionals to ensure that high quality facilities projects are constructed; commissioned and placed into operation in a manner consistent with the approved schedule and budget.

• Energy Management: Assist energy managers in seeking out, determining feasibility of, initiating, coordinating and at times, manage energy savings projects to save the University operational expenditures.  Review and prepare custom reports related to the payback and resultant savings for use by university leadership in go-no go decision making. 

• Assist in the maintenance of the AU Design Standards.

• Assist project managers in the review and evaluation of project designs to ensure compliance with program, and design guidelines and standards.

Other duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• Serve as technical expert and advise on all MEP related issues for all university commissioning projects as member of 2-person university commissioning group. Liaise between building automation (BAS) department and other departments.

• Interpret technical data from building automation team and communicate impact on projects and operations to peer departments.

• Develop BAS training for project managers. Develop agenda, oversee training, and review feedback for development for ongoing training.

• Provide design review of all university construction projects as a subject matter expert for MEP and utility systems. Impart knowledge gained from eight years of design and construction experience as a consulting engineer prior to working in facilities.

• Analyze, process, and refine substantial amounts of data, including BAS trending and utility consumption, into concise executive summaries for review by university stakeholders.

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