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Renovation Services

The Renovation Services Manager plans, directs, coordinates, and oversees renovation services and operations. Manager responsibilities include reviewing and evaluating bids and estimates; determining equipment, material, and labor requirements; aligning work and trades schedules; collaborating with internal and external partners; providing technical consultation and expertise; conducting site visits; ensuring a safe work environment; overseeing job specification, regulatory, and bargaining unit compliance; forecasting, developing, and administering budgets; developing guidelines, rules, polices, procedures and operational changes; hiring, training, evaluating, and developing personnel.

• Oversee renovation services and operations; ensure project completion is timely and on-budget; initiate corrective action as needed
• Review and evaluate bids and estimates; determine equipment, material, and labor requirements
• Align and approve work and trades schedules; communicate priorities
• Confer, collaborate, and provide technical consultation to engineers, designers, architects, estimators, planners, facility coordinators, etc.
• Conduct site visits; ensure project specifications and regulatory requirements are met; oversee compliance inspections and occupancy approval reviews; address, resolve, refer, and report issues
• Advise senior management on matters related to area of operation
• Forecast, develop, and administer budgets; identify and implement cost containment measures; develop new and maximize existing revenue sources; monitor efficiency and productivity; research and requisition equipment and supplies
• Keep abreast of industry trends and regulatory requirements; develop operational changes, policies, and procedures; establish and communicate standards; manage regulatory and policy compliance including licensing, certifications, and training
• Ensure a safe work environment; participate in emergency planning and response; oversee accident investigations; seek and implement improvement opportunities
• Develop, implement, communicate, and enforce guidelines, rules, policies, and procedures
• Review, manage, and promote sustainability efforts
• Hire, train, coach, supervise, schedule, and evaluate employees; plan and coordinate professional development opportunities
• Adhere to Collective Bargaining Agreement provisions; participate in grievance/arbitration proceedings

Level:

– Senior Manager

Base Description:

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

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates advanced skills in critical functions related to unit's success. Demonstrates advanced knowledge of emerging technologies and processes. Monitors completed work of others to ensure effectiveness and adherence to requirements. Sets clear expectations and holds team accountable. Establishes a shared team/unit vision. Demonstrates ability to evaluate and enhance team/unit practices that promote a strong commitment to inclusionary practices. Coaches others using appropriate strategies. Demonstrates diplomacy. Demonstrates ability to serve as liaison between senior-level management and staff. Resolves complex, controversial, or unprecedented issues and problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees large team or teams of individual contributors and/or supervisors/managers
– Leads a department or functional area

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Monitors and tracks large budgets
– Plans, forecasts, and/or develops budgets
– May approve budgets for specific area
– Typically has final signature authority for specific area

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that impacts the team and possibly the unit
– Develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve problems that are difficult in nature
– Independently resolves complex and/or unprecedented issues and problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined
– Generally sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Monitors completed work of others to ensure soundness of approach, effectiveness of meeting requirements, the feasibility of recommendations and adherences to requirements
– Delegates more 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
– Fosters collaboration between units and engages others' coordinated efforts to reach desired outcomes with broad scope

• Comp Grade – 15
• Minimum – $109,300.00
• MidPoint – $136,600.00
• Maximum – $164,000.00