Penn State Job Catalog

Additional levels that exist for this job profile can be seen below.

The Facilities Management position is a senior leadership position typically within the Office of the Physical Plant, overseeing the operation and performance of University facilities; provides strategic planning and performs, administers, or delegates such activities as major program plans (i.e., collective bargaining, safety, customer service, emergency preparedness, etc.), providing continuous analysis, interpretation, resolution, and implementation on facilities-related matters.

• Direct facilities operations for multiple areas, typically at a University wide scope
• Responsible directly to senior leadership
• Approve staffing plans for multiple areas
• Establish standards for operating areas
• Participate in University Board of Trustees meetings as assigned
• Chair University committees as requested
• Monitor and approve budgets for multiple areas
• Participate in the development of University policies and procedures
• Communicate to a broad internal and external University audience
• Advise senior leadership on matters related to areas of operation
• Set program directions as required to meet mission
• Represent the University with regulatory agencies
• Oversee the work of professional consultants
• Review and recommend approval of professional consultants
• Set program criteria for projects
• Develop University policies and procedures; ensure compliance
• Oversee and ensure appropriate implementation, operation, evaluation, and adjustment to processes within the organization to ensure quality standards are achieved; champion continuous quality improvement initiatives utilizing appropriate philosophies and theories to solve problems and improve processes

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 – 17
• Minimum – $141,700.00
• MidPoint – $180,700.00
• Maximum – $219,600.00