Facilities Manager, Academic Learning Spaces

Location: hirify.global Vancouver Campus, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; responsibilities cover academic learning spaces across four university and twenty-eight clinical sites in British Columbia.

Salary: CAD 7,502.25–10,788.33 per month.

Company

hirify.global is a university providing health and life sciences education and research through a province-wide network of academic and clinical sites.

What you will do

• Manage daily operations for more than 150 VC rooms, 175 non-VC rooms, clinical skills and on-call rooms, libraries, and study spaces.
• Coordinate reactive and preventive maintenance, building access, security, trades, technicians, and contractors with hirify.global and Health Authority teams.
• Plan and manage renovations and maintenance projects, including requirements, specifications, cost estimates, budgets, schedules, site meetings, and stakeholder communications.
• Lead the annual Space and Technology Renewal Needs Assessment and develop the learning-space renewal project pipeline with Digital Solutions and hirify.global IT/AV.
• Transition new learning spaces into operations by coordinating site visits, orientations, training, booking systems, and user processes.
• Develop booking policies and procedures, resolve recurring and sensitive operational issues, and manage budgets, payments, purchase orders, and operating expenses.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline and at least four years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience in project coordination, space planning, or facilities management.
• Excellent computer, written and oral communication, organizational, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects under pressure, meet deadlines, and build effective relationships with university and healthcare stakeholders.
• Ability to exercise tact, diplomacy, discretion, and independent judgment in budget, safety, security, and operational matters.
• Commitment to respecting diverse perspectives and developing knowledge and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Nice to have

• Experience using ARCHiBUS and CAD programs.
• Experience working in the university or healthcare sector.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time staff position with non-union status.
• Ongoing employment.
• Work within a province-wide academic and clinical facilities network.
• Collaborate with faculty, staff, Health Authorities, consultants, engineers, architects, contractors, and university service units.