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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Facilities Operations Specialist in Menlo Park, California

Facilities Operations Specialist

Job ID

6097

Location

SLAC - Menlo Park, CA

Full-Time

Regular

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Position Overview:

SLAC’s Facilities and Operations Division manages one of the world’s premier science facilities on a 400-acre Stanford site with 150+ structures for the Department of Energy. service organization committed to the support and success of the Laboratory's Scientific Mission by providing safe and responsive engineering, construction, operations and maintenance of equipment, buildings, and infrastructure.

We are seeking a Facilities Operations Specialist to provide execution and assurance of division-wide initiatives, programs, and projects. This role is key in implementing the SLAC Facilities Management strategy and implementation of operational excellence. This position will report directly to the Director of F&O.

SLAC is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory operated by Stanford University and based in Menlo Park, CA.

Your specific responsibilities include:

  • Prepare F&O projects status reports and advise Facilities Management, Engineering, and Operations on critical areas and progress toward milestones.

  • Perform cost, schedule and earned value (EV) analyses to identify and report variances from baseline plan and develop corrective action plans. Ensuring work completion within schedule and constraints

  • Perform the full range of project management cycle: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. Lead projects requiring functional integration. Complete sub-project and/or stand-alone elements (or a contained project such as construction project).

  • Direct development of an action plan, and estimate requirements for resources, including management, labor, materials, and time required to complete project.

  • For facilities’ issues i initiate work requests, monitor completion; manage maintenance and renovations budget; coordinate and monitor routine maintenance services completion. monitor metrics and report related trends.

  • Perform condition assessments on appearance, equipment, or troubleshooting, analyze results and scope corrective. Coordinate, direct, inspect and approve contract work, third party vendors; identify, recommend & implement building operations & process modifications; coordinate maintenance logistics (to avoid faculty conflicts, events).

  • Lead process improvements within the unit or program, and develop/implement corrective action plans.

  • Track operational deliverables to key customers (directorates, lab operations divisions), and present status of execution at quarterly reviews.

  • Develop written reports and recommendations and make presentations to lab senior leadership.

  • Guide supervisors in interpreting and implementing operation resources policies, procedures, and programs.

  • Participate in program prioritization, planning, and funding for both annual and multiyear projects.

To be successful in this position you will bring:

  • Bachelor’s degree and five years related, demonstrated technical facilities / construction project management experience, or a combination of education and relevant experience.

  • Demonstrated experience planning, developing, and implementing projects.

  • Demonstrated experience understanding and applying relevant codes, regulations, and processes.

  • Must possess excellent organizational skills with attention to detail and the ability to manage several projects simultaneously.

  • Excellent time management skills and systematically holds others accountable to ensure program delivery.

  • Experience working with internal and external vendors and services contracting.

  • Polished written and oral communication skills to address a wide variety of audiences.

  • Ability to productively engage and influence cross-functional teams.

  • Ability to coordinate and manage multiple projects with competing priorities, meet deadlines and project plans with short- and long-term end dates.

  • Ability to read and interpret construction drawings and specifications

  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team

In addition, preferred requirements include:

  • Lean Green Belt or equivalent

  • Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)

SLAC employee competencies:

  • Effective Decisions: Uses job knowledge and solid judgment to make quality decisions in a timely manner.

  • Self-Development: Pursues a variety of venues and opportunities to continue learning and developing.

  • Dependability: Can be counted on to deliver results with a sense of personal responsibility for expected outcomes.

  • Initiative: Pursues work and interactions proactively with optimism, positive energy, and motivation to move things forward.

  • Adaptability: Flexes as needed when change occurs, maintains an open outlook while adjusting and accommodating changes.

  • Communication: Ensures effective information flow to various audiences and creates and delivers clear, appropriate written, spoken, presented messages

  • Relationships: Builds relationships to foster trust, collaboration, and a positive climate to achieve.

Physical requirements and working conditions:

  • Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of his or her job.

  • Given the nature of this position, SLAC will require onsite work

Work Standards:

  • Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.

  • Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for environment, safety and security; communicates related concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned. Meets the applicable roles and responsibilities as described in the ESH Manual, Chapter 1—General Policy and Responsibilities: http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/esh/eshmanual/pdfs/ESHch01.pdf

  • Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University policies and procedures, including but not limited to the personnel policies and other policies found in the University's Administrative Guide, http://adminguide.stanford.edu/


  • Classification Title: Facilities Specialist 3

  • Job code: 4373 Grade: I

  • Duration: Regular Continuing

The expected pay range for this position is $84,000 - $128,000 per annum. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs.

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer and supports diversity in the workplace. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital or family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or genetic information. All staff at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory must be able to demonstrate the legal right to work in the United States. SLAC is an E-Verify employer.

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