Building Operations Manager

Company Description

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Why join Harvard University Central Administration?

Harvard University's Central Administration (CADM) is a 5,000+ employee organization that supports the university's overall excellence by understanding and serving the needs of its schools, students, faculty, staff, alumni, and surrounding communities. Through dynamic and collaborative partnerships, CADM provides high-quality and efficient services to the schools to help them achieve their goals.

Job Description

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is Harvard’s largest school, comprising a diverse portfolio of research laboratories, libraries, residential and athletic facilities, offices, classrooms, museums, and other specialized facilities. The FAS facilities portfolio includes more than 250 buildings and approximately 10 million square feet.

The Manager, Building Operations, Energy & Sustainability, is an integral member of the FAS Office of Physical Resources and Planning (OPRP) and Office for Sustainability (OFS) teams. Within the FAS Infrastructure and Sustainability (I&S) team, the position supports energy efficiency and decarbonization through portfolio-level energy management, recommending building-performance priorities and strategy for the FAS building portfolio, and identifying  corrective actions to optimize building performance. 

Reporting to the Associate Director of Building Mechanical Systems and the Director of OFS, the Manager is responsible for regular monitoring, and reporting portfolio energy performance and utility forecasting, identifying and coordinating investigation of energy anomalies, recommending building-performance priorities, and evaluating the results of the I&S team’s operational and sustainability initiatives. The role works closely with the I&S team as well as Facilities Operations, Building Managers, project managers, Energy & Utilities, OFS, consultants, and service providers to improve building operation and energy performance, and support decarbonization goals.

Job-Specific Responsibilities:

Energy Management and Portfolio Performance

• Leads portfolio-level energy management for FAS, including monitoring electricity, steam, chilled water, natural gas, and other relevant energy and utility data. EnergyCAP is the energy and utility software system primarily used. 

• Identifies trends and building-level energy anomalies (i.e. unusual consumption) and coordinates timely investigation within the I&S team, Building Manager(s), and other FAS and/or University stakeholders as required to resolve the anomaly.