Facilities Projects Lead - Hybrid (Owner’s Rep)

SLAC; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition reimbursement

Commuter benefits

Health care benefits

Job summary

Stanford University’s Residential & Dining Enterprises is seeking an Assistant Director for Facilities/Construction Projects to oversee apartments and MEP projects as an Owner’s Representative from concept to close. You will support the Senior Associate Director, manage staff, budgeting, regulations, and contract negotiations, and serve as backup when needed.

The role balances leadership (80%) with technical contribution (20%), leads a project team, and handles multiple projects with budgets up

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and five years of related experience in management of projects with extensive size/complexity and moderate performance risk, including project planning, scheduling, tracking, and budgeting, or combination of education and relevant experience.
• Preferred technical education in engineering, architecture, or construction management or related fields.
• Preferred certification in Project or Construction Management.

Responsibilities

• Perform the full range of project management cycle: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. Independently lead and direct projects requiring high levels of functional integration and involving multiple disciplines to be managed.
• 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.
• Develop and help execute comprehensive change management strategy and communication plan relative to project scope and stakeholders; orchestrate and lead change management methodologies underlying project success.
• These elements typically delineate the project management involved at this level: Charter origination or scope identification and shaping scope definition; # of disciplines/stakeholders to manage is across university-wide impact, and city, county constituents; risk-manage, control and report on risk associated with more complicated projects, affecting division or program as it relates to their project portfolio and risk sharing and control is skewed further to the project manager: project complexity involves synthesizing complex technical data and driving decisions; primary university relationship is at the senior associate/administrative dean, faculty and directors level: single project budget/scope accountability-up to $10M; cumulative budget/scope accountability over $10M.

Skills

Written and verbal communication

Cross-functional team leadership

Project management & integration

Stakeholder management

Resilience and problem solving

Interpersonal awareness

Technical project knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Preferred engineering/architecture/construction management background

Preferred Project/Construction Management certification

Job description

Stanford University’s Residential & Dining Enterprises is seeking an Assistant Director for Facilities/Construction Projects to oversee apartments and MEP projects as an Owner’s Representative from concept to close. You will support the Senior Associate Director, manage staff, budgeting, regulations, and contract negotiations, and serve as backup when needed.

The role balances leadership (80%) with technical contribution (20%), leads a project team, and handles multiple projects with budgets up