Facilities Specialist 1

Stanfordlivetickets; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 54,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18+ PTO days per year

Health benefits start when you start

Flexible work options

Tuition assistance $6000+ annually

403(b) plan

Mental health and wellness programs

Commuter transportation benefits

Job summary

Stanford University’s School of Engineering seeks a Facilities Specialist 1 to support two busy facilities with labs and teaching spaces. You will ensure safe, efficient operation, coordinate minor renovations, and manage daily maintenance while collaborating with a team of facilities professionals at the Stanford main campus.

The role requires independent work, strong communication, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Onsite work schedule is Monday–Friday at the main campus.

Qualifications

• Interpersonal skills and mature judgment to interact with a broad range of people.
• Ability to coordinate and manage multiple projects with competing priorities.
• Working knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Project.
• Experience working with internal and external vendors and services contracting.
• Background knowledge of safe handling and disposal of chemicals and hazardous waste; emergency preparedness plans.

Responsibilities

• Serve as property operations / maintenance point of contact for facilities’ issues in assigned building(s).
• Coordinate and monitor routine maintenance services and vendor work with limited supervision.
• Identify, recommend and implement building operations and process modifications to increase productivity and reduce costs.
• Handle property administration including tagging, data entry, inventory, and space allocation decisions.
• Implement facility security programs and manage access records and security infrastructure.
• Coordinate projects including scheduling, budgeting, and execution for small, local initiatives.
• Participate in safety management, chemical inventory, disposal, and emergency preparedness coordination.
• Coordinate communications services (network, desktop support, telephony) and provide updates to occupants.
• Coordinate space management, move coordination, space inventory, and capacity planning.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Mature judgment

Coordinate multiple projects

Vendor management

Emergency preparedness

Chemical safety knowledge

Education

Two years related facilities administration experience

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Microsoft Project

Job description

This position has been deemed critical by the School of Engineering Dean’s Office and is exempt from the hiring freeze. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. All candidates must be eligible to work and live in the U.S.

Work Arrangement: This position is onsite, working at the Stanford main campus Monday - Friday.

Budgeted Salary: The budgeted base salary range for this position is $39.09 to $46.01 per hour.

The School of Engineering
Stanford Engineering has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century, creating pivotal technologies that have transformed the worlds of information technology, communications, health care, energy, business and beyond. Our faculty and students are creative risk-takers who pursue excellence across a breadth of disciplines. Our alumni include some of the world's most successful leaders in technology and business. Our staff are critical to enabling Stanford Engineering to accomplish its mission: seeking solutions to some of the world's most urgent challenges and educating leaders who will make the world a better place through the power of engineering principles, techniques and systems.

Stanford's School of Engineering seeks a Facilities Specialist 1 for the Gates Computer Science department and the Computing and Data Science department (CoDa) who has experience managing large, interdisciplinary facilities with complex instrumentation and labs. In this role, you will provide excellent customer service to building residents and work as part of a collaborative team of facilities managers, safety specialists, and project managers. Although each Facilities Specialist has assigned facilities in which they reside and focus, they work within a select team, participate in regular cross training, and provide back-up coverage for each other.

In this role, you will have primary responsibility for two buildings comprised of offices, unique research facilities, labs, maker spaces, and teaching spaces for both undergraduate and graduate students. In this role, you will be supporting faculty, staff, and students from multiple departments within the School of Engineering, while taking on significant responsibility in developing, streamlining, and improving operations of your assigned facilities.

This position requires the ability to work independently to ensure that assigned facilities are appropriately maintained, sustainable, efficient, safe, secure, code-compliant, and accessible. You will also assist with facilitating moderately complex construction and renovation projects, participate in complex renovation projects, interpret facilities policies and guidelines, and make enhancements to facilities procedures. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated a commitment towards continuous improvement in their previous positions. This role will report to the School of Engineering Services Manager of Facilities Operations.

In this role, you will:

• Perform specialized, diverse work activities as assigned, under the direction of a supervisor.
• Coordinate solutions, under limited supervision, solely supporting the operations, maintenance, repair,upkeep, inventory tracking, and refurbishing activities related to the physical environment and building systems of the university.

Physical requirements include:

• Frequently stand/walk, seated, performs desk-based computer tasks.
• Occasionally climb (ladders, scaffolds, or other), twist/bend/stoop/squat, reach/work above shoulders, grasp lightly/fine manipulation, use a telephone, writing by hand, lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 20 pounds
• Rarely; kneel/crawl, grasp forcefully, sort/file paperwork or parts, lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh >40 pounds.

Working Conditions:

• Requires 24-hour response availability seven days per week for emergency situations.
• May be exposed to noise > 80dB TWA.
• May working at heights 4 – 10 ft.

Responsibilities

Core Duties:

Serve as property operations / maintenance point of contact forfacilities’ issues in assigned building(s), unit(s), lab(s); initiatework requests, monitor completion; coordinate and monitor routinemaintenance services completion (trash, utilities, custodial, pestcontrol, long term preservation, inspections, grounds, landscapes,alarms, systems & equipment).

Perform condition assessments on appearance, equipment, ortroubleshooting (formulated by another group, FSM); implement preventivemaintenance plan; coordinate & integrate utility usage/optimization(monitor usage, gather info, provide recommendations, follow-up,shutdown requirements); coordinate contract work, third partyvendors.

Identify, recommend & implement building operations &process modifications to the facility for increased productivity and/orcost reduction; coordinate maintenance logistics (to avoid facultyconflicts, events).

Handle property administration by completing tagging, data entryand inventory; completing purchase orders, receiving; and completingrecord keeping, tracking, information gathering and support for spaceallocation decision makers.

Implement facility security programs by distributing keys,providing building access, monitoring access records, assessing securityinfrastructure needs (security cameras, interlocks, alarms); andassessing and changing access schedules.

Complete project coordination by: performing the assigned taskswithin department projects; acting as a project coordinator/liaison; andoverseeing and executing projects (limited to small, local projects),including their organization, scheduling, budgeting, andimplementation.

Serve as safety management coordinator by correcting identifiedsafety issues; tracking chemical inventory, disposal, hazardous waste;communicating and implementing disposal procedures in laboratorysettings; conducting safety training and/or new employee facilityorientation; and participating in emergency preparedness, recovery andbusiness continuity coordination.

Coordinate communications services (network administration,desktop support, primary troubleshooting, and telephony liaison);provide updates, alerts, notifications to building occupants, includingwebsites, phones; and oversee mailing services, shipping anddelivery.

Coordinate space management and planning activities including:move coordination; space inventory; space allocation tracking;specifying set-ups; maximizing space utilization; providing input intofacilities renewal model; and capital plan implementation (asassigned).

May conduct inventory and administer store supplies, asdirected.

Two years related, demonstrated facilities administration experience,or a combination of education and relevant experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Interpersonal skills, mature judgment required to interacteffectively with a broad range of people, including faculty and vendors,both individually and in groups.

Ability to coordinate and manage multiple projects with competingpriorities, meet deadlines and project plans with short- and long-termend dates.

Working knowledge of applications such as Excel, Word,PowerPoint, Project.

Experience working with internal and external vendors andservices contracting.

Background knowledge of safe handling and disposal of chemicalsand hazardous waste; emergency preparedness plans and theirimplementation; and property administration specific to PO tracking,receiving, and inventory control.

• Pay Range $39.09 - $46.01
• Pay Frequency Hourly
• Fixed Term N
• Stanford Schools and Units School of Engineering
• Full time or Part time Full Time
• Regular or Temporary Regular
• Job Category Facilities
• Posting Date 08/14/2026, 10:59 PM
• Grade F
• Job Identification 200697

Benefits that support you, and your future

18+ PTO days per year

Health benefits start when you start

Flexible work options

$6000+ annual tuition and training assistance

403(b) plan

Mental health and wellness programs

Free and discounted commuter transportation

Applies to regular full-time positions.

Notice to Applicants

Notice to Applicants
The job duties listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classifications and are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks and responsibilities. Specific duties and responsibilities may vary depending on department or program needs without changing the general nature and scope of the job or level of responsibility. Employees may also perform other duties as assigned.
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 their job.
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