Building Manager

AstraZeneca • Rockville, MD

2d • $89,874 - $134,812

About The Position

The Building Manager for the Rockville Manufacturing Center (RMC), a GMP cell therapy manufacturing facility, is responsible for safe, compliant, efficient, and customer-focused delivery of site facility services. These services include GMP cleaning, pest control, the site business continuity plan, site security, café and catering services, workplace amenities, and associated third-party providers. Working with Facilities & Engineering, SHE, Quality, Security, Procurement, Finance, IT, and site leadership, the role supports service continuity, employee wellbeing, regulatory compliance, and operational readiness in a pharmaceutical or similarly regulated environment.

The position manages outsourced service providers and facility-services budgets, supports CAPEX and building-related invoice activities, maintains applicable compliance and audit readiness, and uses operational data and feedback to improve service quality, resilience, sustainability, and supplier performance. The role also requires maintaining cleanroom gowning qualification for Grade B.

Requirements

• Degree, diploma, equivalent professional qualification, or equivalent experience in facilities management, business management, security management, operations, engineering, or a related discipline.
• At least 3 years of substantial experience managing integrated facility services in a regulated pharmaceutical, manufacturing, laboratory, research, or similarly complex environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing outsourced service providers, contracts, budgets, service-level agreements, key performance indicators, risk assessments, incidents, and corrective and preventive actions.
• Experience leading services such as GMP cleaning, physical security, food or café operations, workplace amenities, or comparable employee-facing services.
• Working knowledge of applicable GMP/GxP, SHE, security, food safety, audit, inspection-readiness, and business-continuity expectations.
• Strong leadership, communication, organization, judgment, and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, respond effectively to incidents, investigate service failures, make decisions under pressure, and drive accountability for corrective actions.
• Strong understanding of facility-services operations and ability to translate business, regulatory, and employee needs into practical service standards.
• Commercial awareness, data-informed decision-making, a customer-focused approach, and commitment to safety, quality, compliance, integrity, and inclusion.
• Ability to build relationships with senior leaders, operational teams, employees, contractors, suppliers, and external partners.
• Continuous-improvement mindset and ability to lead change across diverse internal and contracted teams.

Nice To Haves

• Professional certification in facilities management, workplace services, security, food safety, occupational health and safety, or supplier management.
• Experience working in a GxP environment and supporting regulatory inspections or internal and external audits.
• Commercial and sourcing experience, including tendering, supplier selection, and contract renewal.
• Experience applying data, benchmarking, Lean, Six Sigma, or other continuous-improvement methods to facility services.
• Maryland Stationary Engineers license Grade 3.

Responsibilities

• Lead GMP and non-GMP cleaning services across production, laboratory, warehouse, office, welfare, and common areas, ensuring work is planned, documented, and performed according to approved procedures and contamination-control requirements.
• Oversee cleaning specifications, frequencies, methods, materials, equipment, staff competence, records, inspections, deviations, corrective actions, change controls, and audit readiness.
• Manage the GMP pest control program, including third-party vendors, trend reviews, corrective actions, change controls, deviations, and audit readiness.
• Own the RMC Site Business Continuity Plan, including authoring, continuous improvement, and execution of tabletop exercises.
• Manage site security operations, including guarding services, access control, visitor management, patrols, badge and key administration, security systems, incident response, restricted-area controls, and emergency coordination.
• Direct café, vending, and related food services, including service quality, hours, menus, pricing or subsidy arrangements, food safety, allergen management, hygiene, sustainability, and customer experience; collaborate with the Site Administrative Coordinator on hosting and catering.
• Support site CAPEX activities by compiling business cases and quotes, facilitating decision-making, and facilitating and tracking action execution.
• Support Facilities & Engineering leadership with processing, approving, and tracking building-related invoices.
• Ensure workplace amenities and employee-facing services—including meeting and collaboration spaces, reception-related services, lockers, changing facilities, showers, rest areas, and consumables—are safe, clean, functional, accessible, and appropriately stocked.
• Lead day-to-day outsourced service-provider performance, managing contracts, service-level agreements, KPIs, staffing, pricing, training, documentation, invoices, service reviews, risks, and escalations.
• Collaborate closely with the Facilities Maintenance team and host and support on-site PM/CAL vendors in completing necessary documentation.
• Maintain cleanroom gowning qualification for Grade B.
• Maintain governance and compliance with applicable GMP, GxP, EHS, security, food safety, corporate, and legal requirements; support audits and inspections and ensure timely closure of findings and corrective actions.
• Develop and manage facility-services budgets, forecasts, resources, and cost controls while improving value without compromising safety, quality, compliance, continuity, or employee experience.
• Use operational data, customer feedback, audits, benchmarking, and lessons learned to improve service quality, resilience, sustainability, waste reduction, digital service requests, amenity utilization, and supplier performance.

Benefits

• Qualified retirement program (401(k) plan).
• Paid vacation and holidays.
• Paid leaves.
• Health benefits, including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.
• Short-term incentive bonus opportunity.
• Eligibility to participate in an equity-based long-term incentive program for salaried roles.
• Retirement contribution for hourly roles.
• Commission payment eligibility for sales roles.
• Overtime pay for hourly and salaried non-exempt employees working qualifying overtime hours.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed