Smart Buildings Performance Manager

Job Title

Smart Buildings Performance Manager

Job Description Summary

The Smart Buildings Performance Manager plays a critical role in protecting healthcare operations by transforming building data into proactive action. This role focuses on identifying and resolving BMS, HVAC, and analytics‑driven performance issues that impact pharmaceutical integrity, care continuity, energy efficiency, and overall facility reliability. Through close collaboration with site teams, project partners, and construction teams; the manager drives issues to resolution, validates outcomes, and ensures new systems meet operational expectations before turnover. Serving as a technical subject matter expert and continuous improvement leader, this position bridges technology, engineering judgment, and mission‑driven operations to deliver measurable performance, sustainability, and risk‑reduction outcomes across healthcare distribution and care environments. Role is primarily remote with some travel as required.

Job Description

Smart Buildings Performance Manager
Location: Remote (U.S.)

Protect What Matters Most—Through Smarter Buildings
In healthcare, buildings do more than provide space - they protect patients, safeguard pharmaceuticals, and support mission critical operations.

As a Smart Buildings Performance Manager, you’ll be at the center of our Connected Buildings program protecting that mission. By transforming building data into action, you help ensure that temperature sensitive medications remain safe, assets operate reliably, and care environments remain stable - even when systems are stressed. You won’t just spot problems - you’ll help solve them, track them to completion, and quantify the impact.

This role is ideal for a systems thinker who loves diving into BMS and analytics, collaborating with diverse teams, and seeing ideas turn into measurable results that have a real human impact.
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Your Impact

In this role, your work supports:
•    Pharmaceutical integrity, by identifying and resolving temperature, humidity, and system reliability risks before excursions occur.
•    Care continuity and occupant experience, by reducing preventable failures and stabilizing building operations across clinics, distribution centers, and office facilities. 
•    Energy efficiency and sustainability outcomes, by reducing unnecessary energy consumption through proactive optimization while preserving conditions critical to regulated environments.
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What You’ll Do

Identify and Mitigate Risk Using Data
•    Review BMS alarms, trends, and analytics outputs to proactively identify conditions that could impact environmental control, equipment reliability, energy consumption, or operational continuity.
•    Translate raw building data into clear, actionable issues that reflect operational and clinical risk—not just technical anomalies.

Partner With Site Teams to Drive Action
•    Collaborate with facility, engineering, and operations teams to review findings, validate root causes, and determine safe, effective implementation plans.
•    Help teams prioritize actions that protect mission critical operations while balancing cost, risk, and operational constraints.

Track Implementation and Validate Outcomes
•    Track corrective actions and optimizations from identification through completion using standardized workflows.
•    Verify that implemented changes deliver the intended outcomes—improved stability, reduced risk, and measurable performance gains. 

Support New Installations and Accountable Turnover
•    Review and test new BMS installations and integrations, proactively monitoring system behavior, data quality, alarms, and control sequences to ensure stable, reliable operation before system turnover to site teams.
•    Hold project and construction teams accountable by clearly documenting deficiencies, tracking corrective actions, and verifying that issues are not passed into operations.

Serve as a Technical and Mission Advocate
•    Act as a BMS and HVAC subject matter expert, advising on control strategies, alarm design, analytics interpretation, and system behavior.
•    Advocate for solutions that improve reliability and resilience in healthcare environments, not just theoretical efficiency gains.

Lead Continuous Improvement
•    Identify patterns and recurring risks across sites to propose scalable improvements to alarms, analytics, control strategies, and operational standards.
•    Contribute to the evolution from reactive response toward proactive and predictive building operations. 
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What Makes This Role Unique

•    You are not just optimizing buildings—you are protecting healthcare outcomes.
•    Your work directly supports the safe handling of medications, reliability of medical environments, and continuity of care.
•    You bridge the gap between technology, engineering judgment, and mission-driven operations in healthcare distribution and primary care settings.
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What You Bring

•    Experience with BMS platforms (especially Niagara), analytics tools, and HVAC systems, ideally in mission critical or regulated environments.
•    Strong ability to interpret analytics and translate them into practical, risk focused actions.
•    Rigorous computational skills for quantifying environmental and cost savings.
•    Experience holding design and construction teams accountable to ensure issues are identified and corrected before facility acceptance.
•    Comfort working cross functionally with site operators, engineers, and technical teams.
•    Highly self‑directed ownership and comfort working in a mostly remote environment without continuous supervision.
•    A mindset oriented towards safety, reliability, accountability, and continuous improvement.

•    Certified Energy Manager preferred.
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Why Mission Driven Candidates Thrive Here
If you’re motivated by knowing that your work helps protect patients, providers, and critical medical supply chains—and you want to apply your technical expertise where it truly matters—this role gives you that opportunity every day.

Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health, vision, and dental insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life, and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, Cushman and Wakefield provide eligible employees with competitive pay, which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, total hours worked, job type, business line, and applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on factors such as whether the position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement, the geographic area in which the work will be performed, market pay rates in that area, and the candidate’s experience and qualifications.

The company will not pay less than minimum wage for this role.

The compensation for the position is: $ 119,000.00 - $140,000.00

Cushman & Wakefield is an Equal Opportunity employer to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.

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