Asset & Planned Maintenance Manager

About UMass Amherst

The flagship of the Commonwealth, the University of Massachusetts Amherst is a nationally ranked public land-grant research university that seeks to expand educational access, fuel innovation and creativity, and share and use its knowledge for the common good. Founded in 1863, UMass Amherst sits on nearly 1,450-acres in scenic Western Massachusetts and boasts state-of-the-art facilities for teaching, research, scholarship, and creative activity.

The institution advances a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community where everyone feels connected and valued—and thrives, and offers a full range of undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees across 10 schools and colleges, and 100 undergraduate majors. We believe every member of our university community can contribute to our ongoing success by striving for the highest level of excellence as we seek breakthrough solutions to mounting environmental, social, economic, and technological challenges in our world.

The Asset and Planned Maintenance Manager directs the strategy and process for formalized work order planning on behalf of all equipment assets at the UMass Amherst campus. This position performs complex analysis to develop and maintain a comprehensive process for resource allocation based on institutional criticality. Discerns key factors including safety risk, impact on core operations, compliance and regulatory considerations, or financial impact.

Enables strategic planning through recommendation of short and long range financial improvements, develops processes, policies and procedures that ensure long term strategic alignment and preservation of equipment asset controls. Supports the well-being of campus through ensuring that the physical environment, infrastructure and equipment function safely, reliably and efficiently. This position works under the supervision of the Director of Maintenance and Alterations.

• Develops a comprehensive plan to track asset life cycles that keep essential systems running reliably. Implements a communication methodology to inform management when infrastructure needs repairs or replacement.
• Performs detailed condition assessment and analysis for tangible equipment in the skilled trade shops/zones. Evaluates the age, condition and use case for the equipment including day to day needs and special projects.
• Maintains strict confidentiality of project plan details including but not limited to budgets, projections, organizational changes and utilization of internal and external resources. Uses access to sensitive and/or not yet public university related information only in the performance of the responsibilities of position and exercises care to prevent unnecessary disclosure to others.
• Plans for impact mitigation to operational disruptions. Proactively informs stakeholders of work plans, recommends and coordinates solutions.
• Directs the development, implementation, and evaluation of work order planning and prioritization for repairs, routine, predictive, and preventative maintenance. Develops and manages the 5-Year Capital Maintenance Plan to monitor the age and condition of key assets, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, mechanical systems, roofing, lighting, and major equipment. Assists supervisors in setting operational priorities, goals, and objectives related to planned maintenance. Identifies and develops maintenance plans for new equipment being installed.
  
  Properly identifies maintenance costs and replacement costs for all equipment for appropriate planning.
• Identifies necessary resources, materials, regulatory clearances, and tools to execute maintenance tasks, and leads the development of job requirements including staffing and time estimates. Oversees weekly scheduling and sequencing of multi-trade activities, ensuring full utilization of planned resource hours, presenting updates to Maintenance Managers, and monitoring schedule compliance.
• Supervises, directs, and evaluates professional, technical, and vendor staff; coordinates work assignments and schedules with supervisors; assesses resource needs and provides recommendations.
• Oversees timely…