Job Details

Salary: $60,000.00 Annually
Location : Facilities Planning and Operations - Southeast Complex, MO
Job Type: Exempt Staff Full Time
Job Number: 996911
Division: Facilities - General Maintenance
Opening Date: 04/18/2025

Description

Plan, direct, and monitor all activities of the Operations Team in the Facilities Planning and Operations Department. This position will oversee technicians, supervisors and staff members handling maintenance and grounds activities. Assist the Operations Manager to ensure a proactive maintenance program for all campus buildings and grounds. Responsible for customer service, process improvement, workforce productivity, and work quality by accurate scheduling, effective utilization of resources, timely execution of maintenance work, and quality control.
Examples of Duties
Plan, Direct and Monitor all activities of the FPO Facility Maintenance Departments to include: - 65%

• Assists in planning, coordinating, and monitoring all maintenance and grounds activities.
• Perform and oversee inspections and quality control for all maintenance and ground activities.
• Assist supervisors with supervision of all areas in grounds and maintenance
• Establish quality standards/goals for the department and policy and procedures for the Facility Operations team.
• Directs and trains supervisors to develop their maximum potential and effectiveness.
• Guides and gives technical assistance in such matters as University policies and procedures, operating methods, safety, techniques and procedures, discipline and employee relations issues.
• Interviews and recommends new hires, train employees, schedule staff to provide timely and sufficient coverage for campus, review and approve time, inspect employee work to ensure it meets requirements, coordinate and approve leave requests, conduct performance appraisals, discipline employees in accordance with university policies, investigate and report employee accidents, and recommend termination of employment.

20%

• Manage a proactive maintenance program to preserve university assets.
• Plan, schedule, and provide oversight of a preventive maintenance program, including scheduled inspection, maintenance, and repair of electrical and mechanical equipment and other building systems and components to ensure reliability and longevity.
• Ensure that work conditions are safe and conducive to efficient operations.
• Provides technical assistance to operations manager to ensure quality grounds maintenance and maintenance in buildings, whether preventative or reactive are being conducted
• Manage contracted services in conjunction with department fiscal staff and the procurement department
• Develop scopes of work for contracted and internal repair projects

15%

• Manage the facility maintenance and grounds departmental budgets.
• Continuously monitors expenditures in all categories to assure that the budget is not exceeded and that funds are effectively utilized
• Support FPO senior management as required.
• Participate in staff meetings, attend training seminars, and assist with strategic goal setting

Typical Qualifications
Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Facility Management, Engineering or related field required.
• Education may be substituted for experience or experience may be substituted for education based on the following: AA = 2 years experience; BA/BS = 4 years experience; MA/MS = 6 years experience.

Experience:

• Minimum of three years' experience as a manager in a commercial or industrial setting directing large scale facility maintenance efforts and activities required.
• Experience utilizing a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) preferred.
• Experience working in a campus environment preferred.
• Three years' experience in landscape maintenance preferred.

Licenses and Certifications:

• Licenses in mechanical, electrical, or plumbing preferred

Supplemental Information
Physical/Environmental Factors:

• Exposure to fumes and/or chemicals
• Lifting (weight) - 50 lbs
• May work from scaffolding, ladders, mechanical lifts

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Regular part-time or full-time employees - 40
• Temporary and/or seasonal employees - 3

Budget Responsibilities:

• Manage Budget - 5%
• $5,000 Sign-Off Authority

Working Hours and Days: Monday - Friday 7:30-4:00 pm
Special Instructions:

Full-time benefits-eligible position: Benefits include competitive salary; health, dental, vision, life insurance, AD & D, long-term disability; 3 weeks paid vacation per year; 3 weeks of accrued sick leave per year; 13 paid holidays; retirement; and generous education assistance for an employee, spouse and dependent children taking classes at UCM.

Part-time benefits-eligible positions: Benefits include generous education assistance for the employee.

Temporary, adjunct, student employment, or graduate assistant positions: Benefits are not included.

Completed UCM online application for employment required. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

A review will begin immediately and continue until filled unless indicated otherwise.

NOTE: A background check is required for the selected candidate of all staff, faculty, adjunct, and temporary positions and any job offer is contingent on the results of this check. Student employees and graduate assistants do not require a background check to be conducted prior to employment.

The University of Central Missouri is an Equal Opportunity Employer and specifically invites applications from women, minorities, veteran status, and people with disabilities.
Our faculty and staff are the university's most valuable asset, and our goal is to provide a robust Total Rewards Program designed to help them maintain a happy, healthy, and productive lifestyle.

Highlights from UCM's total rewards package for full-time employees include:

• 28.75% (staff) and 6% (faculty) defined retirement contribution, paid by the university;
  
• Voluntary Tax-Sheltered Annuity (TSA) programs (403(b) and 457(b)) that allow eligible employees to make additional pre-tax contributions to a retirement plan;
  
• Employees can earn up to full tuition (15 credit hours) for themselves per academic year. Full-time employees are also eligible for up to $175 towards non-credit courses each fiscal year. Employees can earn up to full tuition for their dependents;
  
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans that begin on the first of the month following your date of hire. Basic dental and vision insurance paid at 100% by the university;
  
• Available Health and Dependent Flexible Spending Accounts;
  
• University-paid basic life insurance (including accidental death and dismemberment) and short-term and long-term disability insurance coverage;
  
• Generous leave accruals that begin accruing on your start date, plus 14 paid holidays per year.
  
• The UCM Childcare Center on the Warrensburg campus can provide faculty, staff, and students quality care for their children ages six weeks to 10 years.
  
• The Student Recreation and Wellness Center (SRWC) is free for all employees and is located on the Warrensburg campus.
  
• An Employee Assistance Program is available to all employees and their immediate family members to help assist with personal challenges you may face in your daily life;
  
• UCM offers an Employee Discount Program through Working Advantage.

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