Penn State Job Catalog

The Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Manager serves in a facilities leadership role to maximize asset performance, minimize downtime, optimize labor utilization, and ensure coordination of efforts University-wide; responsible for communicating and coordinating the processes and procedures within and between the various departments.

• Hire, train, supervise, and evaluate assigned staff and technical-service employees
• Manage and oversee incoming work requests, enhancement uptime of systems, and prioritization of backlog
• Provide strategic planning for the assigned unit; perform, administer and/or delegate activities to unit members
• Performance management including efficiency and effectiveness, develop asset allocation recommendations and planning
• Review project activity reports, customer surveys, and other performance data
• Train and mentor supervisors, support staff, and colleagues
• Budgetary oversite of departmental spending
• Develop and evaluate changes/enhancements to new/existing continuous quality improvement practices; approve/implement as appropriate
• Collaborate with colleagues, peers, and academia professions to instill a reliability centered maintenance program with an emphasis on preventive maintenance optimization

Level:

– Manager

Base Description:

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

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates proficient ability in work design, project management, financial planning and development of goals for accomplishing unit assignments. Reviews and guides work to ensure conformity to policy and effective approaches. Evaluates employee performance and recommend development opportunities. Demonstrates ability to coach employees. Presents and communicates key university indicatives and connects it to unit contributions. Provides broad guidelines. Develops, evaluates, enhances, and/or implements quality improvement practices. Recommends innovative solutions.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees a team (typically 4 or more; no fewer than 2) full
– time direct reports of individual contributors and/or first level supervisors.

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Monitors and tracks department/area budget
– May plan, forecast, and/or assist in developing budgets
– May have final signature authority for specific area

Problem Solving:

– Encounters varied and complex problems
– Helps to develop creative and/or novel approaches to resolve problems that are difficult in nature but within limited scope
– Modifies, adapts, or refines guidelines if necessary to resolve issues or problems

Independence of Action:

– Works independently on complex or strategic assignments
– Uses existing practices and advanced working knowledge to determine appropriate work methods for the team
– Reviews completed work of others for conformity to policy, and effectiveness of approach
– Delegates advanced tasks to others

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– Collaborates closely with team members and various areas across the University
– Prepares written and/or verbal presentations or proposals on complex issues and delivers to a broad variety of audiences
– Communicates key university initiatives and how unit’s work contributes to their achievement
– Presents ideas, concepts and instructions in a clear manner, and uses persuasion and negotiation to build consensus and cooperation
– Establishes and maintains networks to facilitate successful communication among units

• Comp Grade – 13
• Minimum – $86,300.00
• MidPoint – $107,900.00
• Maximum – $129,500.00