Facilities Manager

About the Role

The Meat Science & Animal Biologics Discovery building (MSABD) houses a USDA-inspected meat processing/pilot plant, a BSL2 lab, and research/teaching labs. The Facilities Manager oversees all building and equipment maintenance to ensure uninterrupted research, teaching, extension, and production activities. This role develops, implements, and maintains a comprehensive preventative maintenance plan tailored to the facility’s highly specialized operations and variable schedule. The position manages day-to-day maintenance, coordinates contractors and vendors, and ensures all work meets rigorous university quality standards. The manager proactively identifies solutions for maintaining and repairing complex, research-grade equipment and communicates clearly with building users regarding maintenance timelines, impacts, and resolutions.

Responsibilities

• Ensures all protection systems such as fire panels, smoke/heat detectors, sprinkler systems, and pumps are maintained in accordance with regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Ensures all emergency generators/power systems, rigging systems, and elevators are properly maintained and operational at all times.
• Ensures work performance of employees and maintenance zones meets university standards and expectations.
• Minimizes institutional liability by ensuring compliance with federal regulations governing environmental protection, hazardous materials, hazardous waste, and chemical substances.
• Coordinates and supervises emergency and routine maintenance on campus facilities.
• Establishes priorities for scheduled mechanical and electrical services, administers preventive maintenance programs, inspects facilities to determine repair or replacement needs, and supervises maintenance activities.
• Works with procurement services and planning, design, and construction to develop bid specifications and contract documents for contract work, obtains and analyzes vendor estimates, and prepares bid tabulation sheets.

Requirements

• Experience working with building safety protocols, repair, and maintenance of equipment and space.
• Project management experience (e.g., planning/developing projects; delegation of tasks; facilitating/monitoring project progress; troubleshooting obstacles; organizing complex tasks; implementing and adhering to deadlines; maintaining records; working with contractors).
• Responsive and effective customer service experience (e.g., responding to inquiries, providing administrative and/or technical support, ensuring follow-up and follow-through, adaptability, flexibility, communicating with internal and external customers).
• Experience working with building systems operations such as: Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), refrigeration, steam and chilled water distribution, electrical, plumbing, and building materials.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in food/meat processing plants (e.g., performing maintenance on equipment such as stuffers, mixers, saws, smokehouses, packaging machines, kitchen equipment).
• Experience with modern automation and controls (e.g., computerized systems that control freezers, refrigerators, smokehouses, and specialized cooling units such as Ultrachill and spray chill systems).
• Experience following SSOP (sanitary standard operating procedures) and plant GMPs (good manufacturing practices).

Education

Associate's Degree (preferred minimum).

Pay

The anticipated salary range for this position is $75,000 - $87,473. Final salary will depend on experience and qualifications.

Benefits

• Generous vacation, holidays, and paid time off.
• Competitive insurance and savings accounts.
• Retirement benefits.

Additional benefits information can be found at: https://www.wisconsin.edu/ohrwd/benefits/download/fasl.pdf.