Facility Lead

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

This position provides day-to-day management of facility services and activities within an office.

This position is responsible for facility operations, including upkeep, reception services, and office-related health, safety, security, and sustainability.

In locations with more than one facility staff member, position provides primary leadership and direct supervision of Facilities staff within that location.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that office is provided with the equipment, supplies, and services necessary for daily operations.
• Partner with local office line of business leadership on office-related issues, and attend meetings as required.
• Manage office overhead budget and monitor the financial reports to ensure accuracy. Provide input to annual business planning as it relates to the local office. Ensure all required Real Estate Operations Finance reporting and reviews are completed. Timely communication on any significant variance to plan and necessary accruals or entries.
• Process invoices and charges related to local facility management, ensuring proper coding according to REO expenditure and capitalization guidelines. Generate purchase requests, approve invoices, or gather bids when needed for Facilities requirements or changes.
• Communicate with office staff regarding any facility-related issues or information, in line with any corporate or legal guidelines or direction.
• Serve as onsite contact for building management and local vendors or service providers as appropriate. Manage any landlord, maintenance, or janitorial issues. Respond to requests for service or repair.
• Manage reception, mail and courier services, and offsite archive storage, where applicable.
• Review and understand local office lease and its' terms and requirements (treat as a confidential document). Ensure all Real Estate related documents (including any landlord notices) are submitted to Lease Database Team.
• Support management of any sublease of local Jacobs office space.
• Utilization reporting.
• Assist in new starter induction (orientation) related to Health, Safety, and Environmental requirements. Provide information on local office.
• Provide support for Human Resources where requested. Report terminated access status via JEEP tickets. May assist with collecting assets or paperwork for employee terminations.
• Accountable for the overall cleanliness, appearance, and functionality of the office.
• Support Health, Safety, and Environment with local office tasks including support for specific local plans. Assist with ergonomics requests, as needed.
• Provide support to IT for office-wide requests, as needed.
• Assist Global Security & Resilience, including ensuring the security of the physical office space in accordance with security guidelines; ID badge creation and recovery, access card and visitor management, communication regarding emergencies, etc. Support local office Business Continuity Plan.
• Support office sustainability tasks and reporting, ensuring the generation of Office Sustainability Plan (and Office Environmental Action Plan, if applicable).
• Manage local offsite archiving (retrieval and collection) and destruction. Provide guidance to project managers on best practices for handling filing needs.
• Serve as onsite lead for physical changes within local office, completing tasks as part of facility project team. Coordinate furniture moves, reconfigurations, or installations as needed in partnership with Workplace team.
• Upkeep of all Facilities data for the local office in alignment with global requirements, including floor plans, health and safety information, office utilization, vendor performance, responses to team inquiries, Track Record, Work Location pages, space booking tools, etc.
• In locations with more than one facility staff member, provide facility staff supervision. Participate in the hiring and training of new facilities staff, serve in both the interview and integration processes.
• In locations with only one facility staff member, manage tasks included in Facility Support job description.
• May also have building & grounds responsibilities (where there is no landlord provided property management).
• May support cross functional teams or projects, or small remote locations, as needed.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.
  
  
  

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Here's what you'll need

• Strives to create a positive employee experience within local office.
• Adherence to budget and financial expectations.
• Effective operation of office in line with REO guidelines, any issues that arise are resolved efficiently.
• Good working relationships with office leadership and Property Management and/or Landlord.
• Office is organized, clean, professional in appearance, and is well-maintained.
• Up-to-date with key corporate and REO communications and training.
• If supervisor completion of all required supervisory tasks. Deliver timely training and information. Demonstrates ability to lead, and to motivate local office teams to achieve common goals.
  
  
  

Additional notes

• Responsibilities may require physical activity including some or all of the following bending, stooping, walking, pushing, lifting up to 50 lbs., climbing stairs and/ or ladders, sitting for long periods, and typing.
• Role is office-based/ onsite.
  
  
  

Posted Salary Range Minimum

50,500.00

Posted Salary Range Upper

51,500.00

The base salary range for this position is $50,500.00 to $51,500.00. This range reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across British Columbia, Canada locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.