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Facilities & Safety Services at Cornell
FCS is one of the largest units at Cornell, with over 1,000 employees caring for more than 260 buildings on 2,300 acres of grounds. Departments include the Cornell University Police Dept., Energy and Sustainability, Engineering and Project Management, Facilities Management, Finance and Administration, Transportation and Delivery Services, and the Office of the University Architect. There are many opportunities to grow your career, from entry-level to supervisory positions.
FCS encompasses a broad range of roles, working in every area of campus and beyond: custodian, grounds and building maintenance; biosafety, hazardous materials, industrial hygiene, lab and radiation safety, fire protection, police, landscape architect, engineer, project and facilities management, compliance, emergency management, and many more.
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0:04 when I got out of the service in 0:07 88 I 0:09 uh needed a job that was more 0:12 sustainable and more solid so it opening 0:15 opened up and I just got into this I've 0:17 been on campus 17 years and uh uh going 0:21 on 18 uh I don't know if Rocky told you 0:24 he's been on night shift I think what 34 0:26 years 34 years we kind of know that the 0:30 areas and uh so when we have to cover or 0:33 what have you we have a system that that 0:36 we do at the end of the day if 0:38 everything's clean and uh safe uh for 0:41 for the building users we're we're happy 0:44 what brought me to Cornell was I was a 0:48 certified dialysis tech and so I was uh 0:53 uh people that had uh kidney failure I 0:56 was I was so I was in a medical field 0:58 basically but um um so I saw quite a bit 1:02 of death and um I was just burnt out 1:06 from the medical field and there was a 1:07 there was an ad in the paper for Cornell 1:11 and uh I figured the 1:15 that it could be a good good career and 1:18 so um so I I answered the ad got got 1:23 hired on and uh have stayed ever since I 1:27 think that that all of us custodians for 1:29 the most part take take our job 1:30 seriously the the goal is to to ensure 1:33 that people have all people have a a a 1:37 safe and clean environment to to study 1:41 or to work in to work at um so for the 1:45 students U you know I would say thank 1:48 you thank you for uh for choosing 1:51 Cornell coming to Cornell and and uh 1:54 because it it it's all of us together 1:56 you know moving moving the future really 1:59 and uh a it's a great place to be a part 2:01 of no matter how messy it gets or how 2:04 dirty it gets or how light it is how 2:06 busy it is we that's what we do so yeah 2:10 you know I look at it they pay more 2:11 money to come here than I 2:14 do my service is here for them
