Job Description
Global Workplace and Enterprise Services undertakes the management of facilities across our company. This includes leasing, buying, and selling real estate, facilitating workspace design and occupancy, and managing the operations and maintenance of the facilities.
Our Company leverages analytics and automation capability to improve upon how we use, operate, and maintain our facilities. Technology continues to evolve with significant advances to manage facilities and their lifecycle and enhance the workplace experience. This role will help the organization manage an effective program for the application of "smart building" and other facilities technologies.
Responsibilities:
- Understand the current and ongoing external landscape and use cases for technologies associated with Internet of Things and smart buildings and seek to bring in the 'latest and greatest' technology solutions to our facilities. Actively tie application of these technologies to the needs of the organization, solving key business problems. Define and execute initiatives implementing these technology solutions.
- Develop design guides, standards and specifications that contribute to an ongoing facility technology strategy & program for facilities at our company. Develop a design guide platform, system and review process.
- Act as a central hub for the organization to track and monitor what technologies are and should be installed in buildings. Act as key point of contact for the organization in developing the technology designs into the facilities. Conduct ongoing gap analyses based on existing conditions and the future desired state. Manage a longer-term strategy and a succession of projects to apply new technology and close gaps. Work with colleagues in finance to develop business cases around the use of the technology to ensure the best value.
- Work with global engineering teams to ensure that our design recommendations integrate into the facility design products.
- Support our workspace strategy team on bringing new technologies that will enhance the client experience and productivity in our workspaces.
- Work closely with analytics staff and IT to develop and connect to platforms needed to make the facility technologies operate, and to ensure the effective use of data. Undertake an ongoing process to test and experiment with new technologies.
- Develop and manage mechanisms to communicate to the organization about the facility technology and smart building programs. Educate the organization about the technologies and their application.
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Education Minimum Requirement:
- Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Engineering, or another technical field
Required Experience and Skills:
- 5 years hands-on time spent at the intersection of facilities management and IT, applying smart building and similar technologies
Preferred Experience and Skills:
- The candidate must possess a passion for following trends and experimenting with new technologies.
- Understanding of the fundamentals of building operation and related codes and standards. Working knowledge of principles around effective energy and sustainability management. Appreciation for the latest in workspace design and how technology can enhance employee performance in the workplace.
- Understanding of concepts for managing cyber security, Internet of Things, cloud-based solutions, machine to machine communications, software to enable data gathering, and automation. Must have experience with applying artificial intelligence to monitor, control, and predict equipment performance.
- Technical writing skills. Experience developing standards and business cases.
- Communication, presentation, leadership, influence, and stakeholder alignment & management skills. Ability to interact and partner with colleagues in IT, data analytics, facilities management, engineering, and finance.
- Project management skills
- Vendor management skills
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In accordance with Managers' Policy - Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions.
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Expected US salary range:
$122,800.00 - $193,300.00
Available benefits include bonus eligibility, long term incentive if applicable, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days. A summary of benefits is listed here.
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Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.
Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
No relocation
VISA Sponsorship:
No
Travel Requirements:
10%
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid
Shift:
1st - Day
Valid Driving License:
No
Hazardous Material(s):
n/a
Job Posting End Date:
10/25/2024
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Requisition ID:R317141