Building Manager

AstraZeneca • Rockville, MD

22h

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 site facility services. These include GMP cleaning, pest control, business continuity, security, café and catering, workplace amenities, and management of associated third-party providers. The role works closely with Facilities & Engineering, SHE, Quality, Security, Procurement, Finance, IT, and site leadership to maintain service continuity, employee wellbeing, regulatory compliance, and operational readiness in a pharmaceutical or similarly regulated environment.

The Building Manager oversees facility-service providers, budgets, service performance, and compliance with applicable GMP/GxP, EHS, security, food-safety, corporate, and legal requirements. The role supports audits and inspections, manages findings and corrective actions, and uses operational data and customer feedback to improve service quality, resilience, sustainability, and employee experience. The position also supports capital projects, building-related invoices, and the Facilities Maintenance team, and maintains cleanroom gowning qualification for Grade B.

Requirements

• Degree, diploma, equivalent professional qualification, or 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.
• Commercially aware, data-informed, customer-focused, and committed to high standards of safety, quality, compliance, integrity, and inclusion.
• Effective relationship-building 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 across production, laboratory, warehouse, office, welfare, and common areas, ensuring work is planned, documented, and performed in accordance with approved procedures and contamination-control requirements.
• Oversee cleaning specifications, frequencies, methods, materials, equipment, personnel competence, records, inspections, deviations, corrective actions, change controls, and audit readiness.
• Manage the GMP Pest Control program, including third-party vendor management, trend review, 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, 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 decisions, 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 the day-to-day performance of outsourced service providers, managing contracts, service-level agreements, key performance indicators, staffing, pricing, training, documentation, invoices, service reviews, risks, and escalations.
• Closely collaborate with the Facilities Maintenance team.
• Host and support on-site PM/CAL vendors in completing required 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.
• Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage, subject to the terms and conditions of applicable plans.
• Short-term incentive bonus opportunity.
• Eligibility to participate in the equity-based long-term incentive program for salaried roles.
• Retirement contribution for hourly roles.
• Commission payment eligibility for sales roles.
• Qualifying overtime pay for hourly and salaried non-exempt employees.

What This Job Offers

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