Facility Planning Manager

Overview

Residential & Dining Enterprises, Stanford, California, United States. Post Date:
Jan 10, 2026. Requisition #106072.

About Stanford University And Residential & Dining Enterprises (R&DE). Stanford University is one of the world's leading teaching and research universities. R&DE, the largest auxiliary organization at Stanford University, supports the academic mission by providing high-quality services to students and other members of the university community. R&DE has an annual operating budget of $400M, operates 24/7/365, and oversees a $3B asset portfolio comprising over 7 million square feet.

R&DE provides housing for 16,000 students and dependents, serves 8 million meals annually at 48 student dining venues and 32 culinary enterprises. R&DE comprises divisions including Student Housing Operations & Stanford Conferences;
Stanford Dining and Hospitality & Auxiliaries;
Maintenance Operations and Capital Projects; and strategic partners in Finance & Administration, Information Technology, Human Resources, and Strategic Communications and Marketing.

“Students (Customers) First” is R&DE’s mantra and its strategic goals reflect its commitment to delivering service excellence to the campus community. R&DE is committed to creating and sustaining inclusive excellence where all staff feel a sense of belonging and are empowered to thrive.

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.

Coordinate, schedule, and manage our non-system connected Life Safety Testing and Inspection Program to ensure regulatory compliance with monthly, semi-annual and annual testing and reporting requirements. Integrate information into our tracking master databases and manage the updating of the database following completed testing and inspections. Make recommendations on system improvements. Provide regular reporting to appropriate regulatory agencies.

Conduct special initiatives and manage projects in support of our vision of excellence in facility stewardship.

• Oversee, coordinate, and perform technical aspects of the testing and inspections program of life safety systems, including smoke detectors, exit signs, inverters, and emergency lighting.
• Document inspection results, maintenance activities, and service reports of life safety systems in accordance with regulatory standards.
• 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;
  
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