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SalaryAlexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE), an S&P 500® company, is a best-in-class, mission-driven life science REIT making a positive and lasting impact on the world. As the pioneer of the life science real estate niche since our founding in 1994, Alexandria is the preeminent and longest-tenured owner, operator, and developer of collaborative life science, agtech, and advanced technology mega campuses in AAA innovation cluster locations, including Greater Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, San Diego, Seattle, Maryland, and Research Triangle. Alexandria has a longstanding and proven track record of developing Class A/A+ properties clustered in mega campuses that provide our innovative tenants with highly dynamic and collaborative environments that enhance their ability to successfully recruit and retain world-class talent and inspire productivity, efficiency, creativity, and success. Alexandria also provides strategic capital to transformative life science, agrifoodtech, climate innovation, and technology companies through our venture capital platform, Alexandria Venture Investments.
The Company is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions, marital status, registered domestic partner status, family-care status, veteran status, military status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local law or ordinance.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership direction to our third-party, 40-person facilities engineering team.
- Support client tenant needs with alterations to mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems.
- Oversee self-managed single-tenant building systems to ensure best industry practices are in place to maximize useful life of capital equipment.
- Directly manage Alexandria’s third-party HVAC vendors and contractors.
- Support real estate development team members on capital projects by reviewing equipment submittals and selecting best building systems for efficiency and long-term reliability.
- Establish standards and specifications for new construction and renovations to ensure serviceable, efficient, and reliable systems are in place.
- Develop and maintain standard operating procedures and programs for new and existing assets, ensuring that regulatory compliance is maintained and engineering best practices are applied to all assets.
- Manage and work closely with service vendors, construction contractors, and third-party engineering teams to ensure proper follow-through on work orders, repairs, and maintenance for all assets.
- Participate in property operations setup, including but not limited to back-of-house operations, major building equipment commissioning, and third-party engineering team onboarding.
- Provide technical assistance and support for facilities maintenance, working with contract service vendors and building engineering teams to correct potential building system issues.
- Ensure accurate maintenance repair logs and records, utilizing company systems.
- Ensure that regulatory and compliance documentation, including city- and agency-required forms and renewals, are tracked and completed on time.
- Recommend capital improvement and operational changes for existing facilities to advance corporate sustainability initiatives.
- Communicate properly with tenants to ensure that maintenance and repairs are handled with minimal disruption to tenant productivity.
- Support construction projects, including but not limited to work letter administration, tenant plan review, architect and contractor engagement and management, budget and tenant improvement allowance monitoring, and project close-out.
- Assist in the Company’s development, build-to-suit, expansion, conversion, capital improvement, and tenant improvement projects at office/laboratory properties in the San Diego region.
- Review and approve consultant, design, and construction contracts related to asset maintenance and capital projects.
- Oversee mechanical systems monitoring and troubleshooting, which includes some on-call responsibilities, and respond to urgent system failures off hours, if required.
- Supply to Asset Managers a cost analysis on future maintenance of proposed new equipment and systems.
- Provide quarterly summaries on engineering metrics to the SVP of Asset Services.
Qualifications and Experience:
- At least 10 years of industry experience with life science facilities.
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or any other Physical Engineering discipline required. Professional Engineer (PE) designation preferred.
- Proficient knowledge of mechanical, electrical, plumbing systems, system commissioning evaluations, and laboratory support systems design.
- Proficient operational and analytic-function knowledge of building management systems.
- The expected base salary range for this position is $185,000 USD to $215,000 USD annually. This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on the consideration of many factors, which may include, but are not limited to: the individual’s knowledge, experience, education, qualifications, skills, job location, and the Company’s compensation practices.
