Manager Facilities II - Campus Facilities Planner (Hybrid)

The Opportunity

Cornell University is seeking a strategic and relationship-focused Campus Facilities Planner to help plan for the future needs of our campus.

As a Campus Facilities Planner, you will work at the intersection of facilities, planning, and stakeholder engagement. By partnering with campus units and facilities experts, you will identify current and emerging facility needs, evaluate building and infrastructure conditions, and help guide maintenance and capital renewal investments that support Cornell's academic, research, and operational priorities.

The ideal candidate is curious, collaborative, and a critical thinker. You enjoy asking insightful questions, building relationships, and developing a deep understanding of how facilities support an organization's mission. Most importantly, you can connect people, projects, and resources to develop solutions that meet both current needs and long-term objectives.

The Campus Facilities Planner supports the prioritization of maintenance and renewal resources using the following guidelines:

• Life safety

• Intellectual property, including research support

• Facilities degradation

• Convenience and aesthetics

About the Department

The Cornell University campus is widely admired as one of the world's most beautiful academic settings. The Division of Facilities and Campus Services is committed to providing the highest quality service to students, staff, alumni, and visitors.

Facilities Management (FM) provides maintenance, grounds, and custodial services to the entire campus. As a key steward of the University's facilities, FM is responsible for facility assessments, skilled trades, general construction, building care, grounds, recycling, asbestos, and the management of planned, corrective, and preventive maintenance.

What you will do:

• Build strong relationships across Facilities Management and campus partners to identify current and future facility, infrastructure, and space needs.

• Assess the condition of buildings, grounds, infrastructure, and related assets across an assigned portfolio of approximately 2.4 million square feet.

• Identify maintenance, renewal, and replacement needs while maintaining accurate facility condition records and planning documentation.

• Develop planning recommendations, project scopes, and order-of-magnitude cost estimates to support informed decision-making.

• Collaborate with Facilities Management leadership, technical experts, and campus stakeholders to evaluate complex facility challenges and develop practical solutions.

• Prepare reports, presentations, and planning materials that communicate facility conditions, maintenance needs, risks, and investment recommendations.

• Support a culture of collaboration, inclusion, and respect by working effectively with colleagues and stakeholders from diverse backgrounds and perspectives.

What we need:

• Bachelor's degree and 5 to 7 years relevant experience or equivalent combination. Required to demonstrate proficiency of knowledge of University policies and procedures surrounding project work.

• Working knowledge of facility condition assessment, building systems, infrastructure, general construction practices, maintenance planning, and capital renewal concepts.

• Demonstrated ability to assess facility needs, document deficiencies and condition findings, evaluate priorities, and develop planning recommendations using condition data, stakeholder input, operational impact, and resource considerations.

• Ability to develop baseline scopes, planning assumptions, order-of-magnitude cost estimates, reports, presentation materials, and supporting documentation for maintenance, renewal, and capital planning efforts.

• Experience using excel, databases, project management tools, and/or facilities management software to support planning, analysis, documentation, and reporting.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders, including Facilities Management staff, campus partners, technical resources, project teams, and unit leadership.

• Strong judgment, communication, and organizational skills, including the ability to work through ambiguity, manage multiple priorities, and communicate concerns clearly to a range of audiences.

• Ability to work independently, demonstrate initiative, and support consistent work processes and procedures.

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a valid New York State driver's license; use of a personal vehicle may be required.

• Experience incorporating the perspectives of multiple communities.

If you have all those things, great! We have a few more things that we would prefer you to have, but it's ok if you don't.

• Experience in a higher education, research, healthcare, government, or similarly complex institutional environment.

• Experience supporting capital projects, facility assessments, deferred maintenance planning, or asset management programs.

• Familiarity with systems such as IBM Maximo, e-Builder, or similar facilities and project management platforms.

• Experience participating in project design reviews, construction coordination, project turnover, or QA/QC activities.

Rewards and Benefits

• This position is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement. Employees typically perform this role remotely 1 day per week and on-campus 4 days per week. The university reserves the right to modify, suspend, revoke or terminate the hybrid work arrangement at any time.

• Cornell receives national recognition as an award-winning workplace for our health, wellbeing, and sustainability. Our benefits programs include comprehensive health care options, generous retirement contributions, access to wellness programs, and employee discounts with local and national retail brands. We invite you to follow this link to get more information about our benefits: Understand Your Benefits | Working at Cornell.

• Our leave provisions include health and personal leave, three weeks of vacation and 13 holidays: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the day after, and an end of the year winter break from December 25-January 1. To offer greater flexibility for observing faiths and traditions we also offer two additional floating holidays. Learn more about our generous leave provisions: Holiday and Accrued Time Off | Working at Cornell

• Cornell's impressive educational benefits include tuition-free Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program, tuition aid for external education, and Cornell Children's Tuition Assistance Program. Learn more about our extensive educational benefits: Education Benefits | Working at Cornell

• Follow this link to learn more about the Total Rewards of Working at Cornell: Total Rewards | Working at Cornell.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.