Assistant Director, Academic & Research Facilities

Ohio University

The Assistant Director, Academic & Research Facilities position exists to provide safe and healthy environment where members of the campus community can pursue their diverse institutional goals and objectives. They are responsible for daily service, facility maintenance and the repair academic, administrative, and research facilities at Ohio University. They oversee a general maintenance staff who perform preventative, corrective, and supportive maintenance, and serve as the key point of contact, dedicated to problem solving, for constituents and customers on facilities related matters.

Primary Accountabilities:

1. Staff, train, and manage general maintenance team responsible for the completion of preventative, corrective, and supportive works orders. Coordinate the work of facilities maintenance shops or small contracts on work outside the capabilities of general maintenance team.
2. Develop positive customer-centric relationships with facility occupants and service partners and develop thoughtful and enthusiastic customer service program and service level agreements.
3. Inspect all facilities and ensure that they meet required standards of care. Participate in facility assessments, document deficiencies, and assist in the development of capital plans necessary to compute Facilities Condition Index (FCI) for all facilities within the portfolio.
4. Serve as FM&S representative on all planning, construction, renovation, and major repairs projects within the portfolio. Review designs, inspect work, oversee commissioning and hand off, and manage warranties.
5. Develop, implement, and support various key initiatives for the advancement of campus beautification, diversity and inclusion, health and safety, and energy efficiency/sustainability.

The Assistant Director, Academic & Research Facilities, directly supervises ten (10) to fifteen (15) maintenance technicians from Relief Maintain and Zone Maintenance segments of the 1699 Collective Bargaining Unit.

Successful candidate must have a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of plans and specifications, contract documents, federal, state and local building codes, OSHA standards for construction and general industry and Integrated Pest Management.

This position involves traveling throughout the University and campus and could, on occasion, require bending, reaching, kneeling, crouching, crawling, standing walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, talking, and hearing. Must be able to spend prolonged periods of time working on an office PC; must be able to work under deadlines. Required to observe conditions of mechanical equipment. AD may be subject to drug screening and background checks at any time during employment, able to occasionally drive a university vehicle, work evening and weekends as needed, and meet attendance standards.

Successful candidate must possess valid Ohio driver’s license and be able to obtain and maintain Ohio University’s Certified Driver status.

Facilities Management & Safety is a 24-hour operation for 365 days each year. Position will be required to serve on call in a regular rotation, and may be asked to answer and respond to various calls around the clock. University events such as move-in, homecoming, commencement, and planned service outages may require all hands.

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of 6 years’ work-related experience
• Minimum of 3 years’ supervisory or managerial experience

  An equivalent combination of education and experience may also be considered.

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