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Facilities Automation Systems 

The Facilities Automation Systems Manager oversees the systems, programs, and functional duties and responsibilities associated with facilities automation in facilities construction, renovation, and maintenance, where specialized expertise is required. Functions include customer service and day to day management activities, often related to commissioning, maintenance, or energy savings programs, and recommending methods of repair or upgrades of the Building Automation Systems (BAS) in facilities or infrastructures; provides customer liaison or contact point for BAS and control issues; designs, develops, and administers various programs and systems; oversees data analysis, budgets and costs, recommended equipment selections, feasibility studies, and provides BAS commissioning and mechanical systems technical expertise in the assigned program areas; participates in strategic planning or efficiency initiatives, assuring quality, setting policy or procedures, and record keeping, all while performing within University or departmental policies; supervises assigned employees, which includes planning, prioritizing, and scheduling work tasks or action plans, leading teams, resolving problems, providing training, and assuring all aspects of a safe work environment for assigned employees and customers.

• Responsible for all departmental hiring, training, organization goals, employee evaluations and discipline; train and mentor employees and students; creates unit or cross-functional teams, and assigns employees to participate
• Lead initiatives to develop feasibility studies, analyses, projects, or processes; evaluate options and implement solutions
• Guide the development of projects and processes in support of the overall strategic plans; develop and implement action plans and establish priorities
• Lead and develop project work; provide project assistance, direction, and training to employees, staff, technical personnel, contractors, and consultants
• Lead energy saving efforts through the use of BAS; reduce energy use by troubleshooting equipment; provide guidance to contractors and consultants on best practices for installation and operation of building automation systems
• Monitor and approve budgets for multiple areas
• Establish technology standards and policies to ensure operational consistency to evaluate and enhance practices
• Ensure that continuous quality improvement initiatives (including but not limited to Reliability Centered Maintenance) are appropriately implemented and carried out within the Facility Automation Services department
• Recommend, establish, and develop standards, operational procedures and policy for building automation

Level:

– Principal Manager

Base Description:

– Manages direct reports where primary duty is the management of a working unit.

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates awareness of broad issues and management trends. Applies exemplary management principles. Evaluates impact of policy and adjusts accordingly. Ensures appropriate skills are developed and maintained within team/unit. Realigns staff responsibilities to meet desired changes. Provides administrative and policy direction. Develops and articulates broad goals. Fosters collaboration between units. Engages in written and verbal communications that reach a university-wide and/or broad external audience. Develops and implements solutions to highly complex and often controversial problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees teams of other supervisors/managers
– Leads a business unit

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Plans, forecasts, develops, and/or approves budgets
– Typically has final signature authority for business unit

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that may have a significant impact on multiple units and/or the University
– Regularly develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve the most difficult problems
– Creates an environment that encourages imaginative solutions to problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined and may be frequently changing
– Sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Oversees completed work of others and is accountable for unit results
– Delegates advanced tasks to others and provides guidance to team members

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– May represent the University externally
– Collaborates closely with team members and other leaders across the University
– Communicates a compelling vision that inspires and motivates others

• Comp Grade – 16
• Minimum – $123,200.00
• MidPoint – $157,100.00
• Maximum – $191,000.00