Assistant Director of Maintenance Services Position Available In Richland, South Carolina

Posting Number

STA00047PO25

Job Family Building and Grounds Maintenance
Job Function Facilities Management
USC Market Title Facilities Manager to USC Market Title /titles/132171
Job Level M1

• Managerial
  Business Title (Internal Title) Assistant Director of Maintenance Services
  Campus Columbia
  Work County Richland
  College/Division Division of Student Affairs and Academic Support
  Department SAAS Housing Facility Management
  State Pay Band 6
  Approved Starting Salary $54,165
  Advertised Salary Range $54,165
• $65,000
  Location of Vacancy Columbia, SC
  Part/Full Time Full Time
  Hours per Week 37.5
  Work Schedule Standard working schedule: 8:00am
• 4:30pm
  Must be willing to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the department.

Basis 12 months Category Trades/Maintenance
About USC
About University of South Carolina From the Upstate to the Lowcountry, the University of South Carolina system is transforming the lives of South Carolinians through the impact of our eight institutions and 20 locations throughout the state. More than 50,000 students are enrolled at one of eight institutions, including the research campus in Columbia andprehensive four-year universities in Aiken, Upstate and Beaufort. In addition, our Palmetto College campuses in Salkehatchie, Union, Lancaster and Sumter enable students to earn associate or bachelor’s degrees through abination of in-person, online or blended learning. All of our system institutions place strong emphasis on service — helping to build healthier, more educatedmunities in South Carolina and beyond.
Benefits for FTE Positions
The University of South Carolina (USC), through the State of SC and Public Employee Benefit Authority (PEBA), offers employees a valuable benefits package, including health and life insurance, generous paid leave and retirement programs. To learn more about USC benefits, access the “Working at USC” section on the Applicant Portal at . Research Grant or Time-limited positions may be eligible for all, some, or no benefits, based on the grant or project funding.
Position Description
Advertised Job Summary The Assistant Director of Maintenance Services is responsible for the overall leadership of the Housing Maintenance team. Through proactive and thorough planning of work and projects, fiscal responsibility and a participatory leadership style, this position will ensure a safe and productive work environment for a team that will be focused on best serving our customers. This position has been designated as essential personnel during inclement/ hazardous weather and other emergencies.
Primary Responsibilities

• Supervisor Position
  Planning, Coordinating, Developing/Monitoring/Reporting Budgets
  Oversight of our Internal specialized maintenance Trades
  Assist with developing annual and multi-year special project schedules and budgets
  Ensure workpliance
  Directs and manages work force responsible for maintaining all Housing buildings 24/7, 365 days
  Additional Responsibilities
• Designated as essential personnel during inclement/hazardous weather and other emergencies
  Ability to understand and University and Departmental policies and procedures
  Ability tomunicate effectively

Perks:

Some of the BEST benefits you can find!

Work-Life-Balance:

Full-time pay with a 40 hour work week
Generous paid time off
An engaging and collaborative on-campus environment
You’ll enjoy the historic beauty of the University of South Carolina campus, surrounded by amenities, so you’ll love w you work!
Job Related Minimum Required Education and Experience Requires a bachelor’s degree in a job related field and 5 or more years of job related experience, which may be substituted by an equivalentbination of job related certification, training, education, and/or experience.
Required Certification, Licensure/Other Credentials Preferred Qualifications Thorough knowledge of Maintenance operations: routine work management, emergency work, preventive and predictable maintenance on systems andponents. Collecting and utilizing data in making management decisions. Developing and implementingprehensive planning of summer work and small capital projects. A demonstrated ability to manage an environment that developed staff , that was involve with participatory leadership, focused on being problem solvers, and a can-do work force. Bachelor’s degree and 7 years construction or maintenance experience
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities Must demonstrate a full understanding of building systems, operational protocols, and the ability to maintain a successful building maintenance program. Knowledge and skill in the area of budgets and planning and ability to analyze financial reports. Ability to supervise others through acceptable methods and means and maintain division productivity and morale. Strong managerial background with heavy emphasis onmunication and motivation skills including verbal and writtenmunication, customer satisfaction, maintaining confidentiality, performing multiple concurrent tasks, reasoning, and dealing with constant interruptions and stress.
Job Duties

Job Duty Work Practices:

Develop methods and processes to understand current processes, their effectiveness and what changes need to be made to address inadequacies. Working with work control and others develop reports to understand staffing (planned and unplanned), work by unit (averagepletion, call back) and other variables that affect our ability to properly manage our workload to ensure timely and well done work by each staff member.
Essential Function Yes
Percentage of Time 15
Job Duty Routine, Preventive and Predictable maintenance: Directs and manages a work force that is responsible for maintaining all Housing buildings 24/7, 365 days. This includes emergency work and all electrical/mechanical systems, along with other internalponents and external envelopes. This position will reduce the effects of deferred maintenance through developing staff and implementing well documented preventive and predictive maintenance programs for all buildingponents and systems. Through proper training, review and inspections this position will ensure all staff are managing their work according to the work management procedures.
Essential Function Yes
Percentage of Time 25
Job Duty Projects assigned to Operations to manage andplete: This position will work with the Assistant Director of Safety and other staff to ensure projects are properly managed for timelypletions, quality and remain within budget through fully develop scope of work, full critical path schedule, estimated budget and close out inspections. Summer scheduled work will be fully developed and submitted by mid-February. The schedule will include a detail accounting of work being done in each building by floor and total time toplete each floor and overall building.

This plan will include needs:

staff, equipment, vehicles, supplies and material. Every effort will be made to address current building conditions that negatively affect our occupants especial work that in the past was never assigned or addressed. A focus on special projects that can be and should be handled in house to address health issues or at least the appearance of health issues should be done.
Essential Function Yes
Percentage of Time 25

Job Duty Personnel:

This position provides the overall leadership for the Housing maintenance team (trades and area maintenance). This position through individual actions and the actions of his direct reports will create a work environment of participatory leadership that develop goals, priorities and strategies to carry out this unit’s mission, which will be fully aligned with Housing, Student Affairs and the University’s overall mission. This leader will ensure staff are problem solvers, adaptable to change and are focused on serving our customers.

Key responsibilities will be:

Ensuring position descriptions are up to date and accurately reflect what each individual does, mandatory and key training ispleted, budgets are developed and add too, key project and summer planning are done well, executed and properly tracked for success, work management procedures are add too, safety policies and procedures are in place and staff work in a safe environment, coaching for improve performances are being done and well documented and EPMS for all staff arepleted on time and individual performances are well documented.
Essential Function Yes
Percentage of Time 30
Job Duty Responds to emergency, weekend and/or hazardous weather plan call backs including being part of an on-call rotation. Other duties as assigned.
Essential Function Yes
Percentage of Time 5
Position Attributes
Employees in Safety-Sensitive or Security-Sensitive positions will be subject to pre-employment and post-employment drug testing in accordance with University policy HR 1.95 Drug and Alcohol Testing.
Safety Sensitive or Security Sensitive No
Hazardous weather category Essential
Posting Detail Information
Number of Vacancies 1
Desired Start Date Job Open Date 01/21/2025
Job Close Date 04/21/2025
Open Until Filled No
Special Instructions to Applicant This posting is a re-advertisement. Applications previously submitted are all being considered. Previous applicants do not need to re.
Positions are advertised for a minimum of five (5) business days on our job website. After five (5) business days, positions can be closed at the discretion of the department at any time. This employment site is updated on a regular basis. The length of the recruitment and screening process may vary from position to position, depending upon a variety of factors. Should review of your qualifications result in a decision to pursue your candidacy, you will be contacted by phone or email.
We are only accepting applications submitted by April 21, 2025.
The University of South Carolina offers a valuable benefits package including but not limited to:
Health and Life Insurance
Retirement Programs
Paid Tuition
Dependent Scholarships
Annual Leave
Sick Leave
13 Paid Holidays (including an extended December holiday)
Paid Parental Leave
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