Assistant Director of Maintenance Services

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Posting Number: STA00338PO25

Job Family: Building and Grounds Maintenance

Job Function: Facilities Management

USC Market Title: Facilities Manager

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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

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

Job Search Category: Trades/Maintenance

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 and comprehensive 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 a combination of in-person, online or blended learning. All of our system institutions place strong emphasis on service - helping to build healthier, more educated communities in South Carolina and beyond.

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 work compliance
•  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 apply University and Departmental policies and procedures
•  Ability to communicate 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 where 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 equivalent combination of job related certification, training, education, and/or experience.

Preferred Qualifications: Thorough knowledge of Maintenance operations: routine work management, emergency work, preventive and predictable maintenance on systems and components. Collecting and utilizing data in making management decisions. Developing and implementing comprehensive 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 on communication and motivation skills including verbal and written communication, customer satisfaction, maintaining confidentiality, performing multiple concurrent tasks, reasoning, and dealing with constant interruptions and stress.

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 (average completion, 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 internal components 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 building components 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 and complete: This position will work with the Assistant Director of Safety and other staff to ensure projects are properly managed for timely completions, 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 to complete 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 is completed, budgets are developed and adhered too, key project and summer planning are done well, executed and properly tracked for success, work management procedures are adhered 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 are completed 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

Safety Sensitive or Security Sensitive: No

Hazardous weather category: Essential

Number of Vacancies: 1

Desired Start Date: 06/01/2025

Job Open Date: 05/05/2025

Job Close Date: 07/05/2025

Open Until Filled: No

Special Instructions to Applicant: 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 July 5, 2025.

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