Facilities Technician Staff Planner Scheduler (Swing Shift)

Facilities Technician Staff Planner Scheduler (Swing Shift)

Join the Facilities Operations and Maintenance team, a highly responsive and knowledgeable crew providing outstanding service for Facilities Services and to the university community.

Maintenance Operations, a branch of the Facilities Operations and Maintenance Division, provides comprehensive maintenance services in support of the University's operations.

Our teams provide a comprehensive array of qualified services, backed by our licensed and certified technicians, to this end, we offer opportunities for continuing education, as well as various stipends for additional trade licenses. Our team of trained trade experts are well-matched for the university's operational and maintenance needs, whether the facility is a brand new laboratory or our iconic Tower.

Our goal is to self-identify operations and maintenance issues long before our clients realize a repair is needed and take a thoughtful approach to using their resources, structuring processes, and providing the best client service and use of university resources. This goal comes from our sense of ownership and pride in our work.

With this approach in mind, the team is organized into a zone-based structure and employs flexible work hours, data analysis, and technology to meet operational goals.

Your skills will make a difference.

You'll be working for a university that is internationally recognized for our academic programs and research. Your work will contribute to operational excellence and enhance the student experience. If you're the type of person that wants to know your work has meaning and impact, you'll like working in our department and for UT Austin. UT Austin provides an outstanding benefits package including but not limited to:

• Competitive health benefits (employee premiums covered at 100%, family premiums at 50%)
• Voluntary Vision, Dental, Life, and Disability insurance options
• Generous paid vacation, sick time, and holidays
• Teachers Retirement System of Texas, a defined benefit retirement plan, with employer matching funds
• Additional Voluntary Retirement Programs: Tax Sheltered Annuity 403(b) and a Deferred Compensation program 457(b)
• Flexible spending account options for medical and childcare expenses
• Robust free training access through LinkedIn Learning plus professional conference opportunities.
• Tuition assistance
• Expansive employee discount program including athletic tickets
• Free access to UT Austin's libraries and museums with staff ID card
• Free rides on all UT shuttle and Austin CapMetro buses with staff ID card
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Purpose: To make Facilities Maintenance technicians more effective and efficient by planning and scheduling the acquisition and allocation of resources and materials to accomplish nonreactive maintenance work.

Responsibilities:

• Create/verify tasks and time allotment of maintenance work orders.
• Acquire best-value material and parts and allocate tools and other resources as required to accomplish work tasks.
• Follow-up on quality and completion of work through field visits, as well as direct client, technician, crew lead and supervisor communication.
• Prepare a schedule every week for each technician showing daily planned work orders and any other planned activities or absences.
• Update frequencies of predictive and preventive maintenance work orders.
• Coordinate equipment outages with clients.

Required Qualifications: High school graduation or GED. Seven to nine years of experience in facilities maintenance. Experience with maintenance of building structures and related HVAC equipment. Experience with Microsoft Office applications. Demonstrated excellent communication skills. Demonstrated ability to follow verbal and written work instructions.

Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications: Associate degree or above in a technical field. Completion of vocational trade or apprentice program in one or more journeyman trades. More than nine years of indicated experience. Experience with maintenance of large buildings including classrooms, laboratories, libraries, and museums. Experience with repair and preventive maintenance of large HVAC systems, heat recovery units, and associated pumps, piping, ducting, and other related equipment. Experience with predictive maintenance techniques including thermography, temperature, pressure and vibration monitoring, and power analysis. Experience at the University of Texas or in a university setting. Demonstrated ability to handle responses. Demonstrated ability to give a verbal sequence to a response. Demonstrated ability to work well within a team environment. Demonstrated stable work history. Successful completion of the Leader Development Program. Candidate's Motor Vehicle Report (MVR) for the past 36 months must be clear. This includes all states resided in for past 36 months. Candidate must provide out of state MVR(s). Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Salary Range: $51,431 + depending on qualifications. Additionally, this position is entitled to shift differential in the amount of $ 3,857 per year.

Working Conditions:

Environmental Demands:

• Uniforms and/or personal protection equipment (furnished)
• May work in all weather conditions
• May work in extreme temperatures
• May work around chemical fumes
• May work around standard office conditions
• May work around biohazards
• May work around chemicals
• May work around electrical and mechanical hazards

Physical Tasks:

• Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation
• Use of manual dexterity
• Climbing of stairs
• Climbing of ladders
• Lifting and moving

Work Shift: 40 hours a week, five 8-hour days. Swing shift position. Hours typically between 3pm and 1:30am. Schedule to be determined with supervisor. Some overtime, weekends, and holidays possible.

Required Materials:

• Resume/CV
• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
• Letter of interest