ABOUT STANFORD UNIVERSITY AND RESIDENTIAL & DINING ENTERPRISES:

Founded in 1891, Stanford University is among the top academic institutions in the country, excelling in a wide range of fields from the humanities to information technology to the health sciences and medicine. The university is located near Palo Alto, 35 miles south of San Francisco, on an 8,800-acre campus.

Residential & Dining Enterprises (R&DE), the largest auxiliary organization at Stanford University, supports the academic mission of the University by providing the highest quality services to students and other members of the university community. The Department has an annual operating budget of over $270 million, oversees a 5 million sq. ft. physical plant across the campus, and provides housing for over 13,000 students and dependents, serves over 18,000 daily meals at 30 dining and retail locations and over 300,000 meals at Athletic Concessions events, and hosts 20,000 conference guests annually. Additionally, R&DE comprises 735 FTE staff in the following divisions: the Office of the Senior Associate Vice Provost, Student Housing, Stanford Dining, Stanford Hospitality & Auxiliaries, Stanford Conferences, and a team of R&DE strategic business partners: Finance & Administration, Human Resources, Information Technology, Communications, and Maintenance Operations and Capital Projects.

"Students (Customers) First" is the mantra of R&DE and our strategic goals reflect our commitment to delivering quality and excellence to our constituents every day.

Stanford and R&DE are committed to creating and sustaining a diverse environment. R&DE's dedication to promoting diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion is reflected in our work of providing service excellence to our students. Diversity is more than a commitment--it is foundational to what we do. We are fully focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin and all the other characteristics that make us different.

ABOUT MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS & CAPITAL PROJECTS (MCP)

This division supports all R&DE operations and provides strong stewardship of its facilities by delivering daily and preventive maintenance, executing 50-year asset renewal model, managing design and construction of capital and other essential projects, infusing sustainability, safeguarding occupational health and safety, monitoring life-safety systems and after-hours security, overseeing furnishings/fixtures and parts inventory, administering move services and the fleet, managing utilities and waste, ensuring emergency preparedness and business continuity, and providing space and property administration.

JOB PURPOSE:

Coordinate, schedule, and manage the program to provide planned assessments of building subsystems within the R&DE portfolio of buildings. Assist with assessments, integrate information obtained through these assessments into the building subsystem asset tracking database, and manage the updating of the database following completed projects. Make recommendations on lifecycle adjustments as observed over time. Adjust unit costs in model on historical and trending pricing in the marketplace and offer recommendations for refinement of the asset database. Conduct special initiatives and manage projects in support of our vision of excellence in facility stewardship.

CORE DUTIES*:

• 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.
• Facilitate discussions and negotiations to drive recommendation consensus within scope of responsibility.
• Develop and help execute comprehensive change management strategy and communication plan relative to project scope and stakeholders on a focused project; actively manage resistance to change.
• These elements typically delineate the project management involved at this level: Charter- charter and scoping involvement or scope definition, identify and shape scope; # of disciplines /stakeholders to manage is contained to localized department or university constituents; risk- manage and report on risks associated with projects to upper management, risk sharing is maintained between management and project manager; project complexity involves straight-forward technology applications to drive decisions; primary university relationship is at the individual faculty, department /director level; single project budget/scope accountability up to $5M; cumulative budget/scope up to $10M.

ADDITIONAL DUTIES*:

• Coordinate scheduling of asset assessments with inspection teams and user groups including summer conferences, operations, and other user schedules
• Track assessment information and incorporate information into Asset Renewal model
• Contribute to project scope development based on assessment program and desired outcomes
• Using expertise in design and/or construction, identify collateral impacts in project scoping due to renewal of building subsystems
• Direct development of a five-to-seven-year action plan
• Liaise with campus partners as necessary for subsystem assessments and future desired outcomes
• Review, evaluate, approve, and monitor contracts, cost schedule, and technical scope baselines
• Ability to promote diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion in the execution of role
• Demonstrates a wide range of people (or soft skills) to build and sustain respectful and collaborative relationships/networks, internal and external to R&DE