Facilities Operations Manager

Target Start Date : January 2020

Reports To: Vice President of People Operations

Location: San Francisco, CA

Carbon Lighthouse is looking for an experienced, self-motivated Facilities Operations Manager to join our People Operations team. Growth is the key driver of our ability to produce meaningful impact in reducing carbon emissions and putting an end to climate change. In parallel with company growth, your role will be to help us scale and iterate on our existing office growth plan. We currently have 4 offices, located in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Honolulu and we expect to open at least 2 new offices in 2020.

You will be responsible for ensuring our physical spaces are sufficient to allow for uninterrupted productivity of all employees. This will include adequate space, IT infrastructure, administration,and any other facility variables are ideal to set employees up to be highly productive. You’ll be expected to play a critical role in developing and refining our office growth and IT strategies, partnering closely with your team and employees in all of our offices.

About Carbon Lighthouse:
Carbon Lighthouse is on a mission to stop climate change by making it easy and profitable for building owners to eliminate carbon emissions caused by wasted energy. The company’s unique approach to Efficiency Production goes deep into buildings to uncover and continuously correct hidden inefficiencies that add up to meaningful financial value and carbon elimination that lasts. Since 2010, commercial real estate, educational, hospitality and industrial customers nationwide have chosen Carbon Lighthouse to enhance building comfort, increase net operating income and achieve their sustainability goals.

We are a team that highly value life and safety, question asking, getting it done, integrity, and teamwork. We hold the safety of everyone we work with inside and outside the company in the highest regard. We prize transparency and communication, hold ourselves to high standards of performance and professionalism, and support our team members’ professional development. Over the past decade our annual average turnover rate has been under 5%.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the operations of all of our offices and IT
• Supervise and manage the team responsible for administration, facilities, and IT, which includes People Operations Coordinators and an IT Manager
• Ensure that team has bandwidth to address requests and concerns from the company in a timely and effective manner.
• Administer procurement and fiscal management activities associated with building maintenance
• Troubleshoot and responds to after-hour facility issues as needed
• Oversee needed repairs and maintenance of facilities
• Monitor and oversee the work of external contractors
• Manage the coordination of company-wide events, including Holiday Party, company retreat, and other team-building activities.
• Assist in ensuring that facilities meet code compliance and coordinate with officials for any needed government inspections.
• Work closely with VP of People Operations to ensure company growth plans match office capacity. Prompt and drive office searches in all geographies as needed.

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience as a people manager
• Ability to prioritize tasks and remain organized with competing deadlines
• Attention-to-detail
• Ability to get things done in a fast-paced environment
• High Integrity
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Excellent organizational and project management skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work well with others
• Manage relationships with external support vendors as needed.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience in Facilities Management
• BA in facilities management, administration, or a related field
• Growth mindset with constant curiosity for learning & problem solving
• Experience in high-growth, start-up environments

Compensation and Benefits:

• Salary + equity
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• Generous vacation policy
• Fully paid maternity and paternity leave benefits
• Subsidized public transit and bike to work benefits
• 401(k)

Carbon Lighthouse is an equal employment opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants without regard to gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, veteran or disability status.

If you’re excited about our environmental mission and this looks like a fit, you should apply! Please fill out the brief application form below and be prepared to submit three references at a later date.