UNC Engineering Manager of Cogeneration Systems

UNC Engineering Manager of Cogeneration Systems

Salary: $/yr - $/yr (School of Government Services provided pay range).

Hiring Range: $133,000 - $162,000

Position Summary:

Full-time, benefits earning position.

The selected candidate will be employed by the School of Government Services (SOG Services), but their work location and reporting responsibilities will be at the Energy Services, Co-Generation plant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. SOG Services assists faculty and staff at the UNC School of Government in carrying out its important mission: to improve the lives of North Carolinians by engaging in practical scholarship that helps public officials and citizens understand and improve state and local government.

As a nonprofit organization and an official affiliated entity of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, SOG Services also contributes to advancing UNC‑Chapel Hill’s broader mission of academic excellence, research, and public service.

This position is Severe Weather Essential and Communicable Disease/Public Health Emergency Duty Mandatory, as such the employee in this position must report to work during periods of adverse weather, other university emergency and/or a public health emergency. The environmental conditions vary tremendously from air conditioning and heat to dusty, hot, humid and cold conditions. This position will be required to work in all conditions for various lengths of time depending on the operational requirements.

This position will be required to enter confined spaces or hazardous environments to include steam tunnels with temperatures that can exceed 130 degrees. The appropriate PPE in accordance with established procedures and instructions will be required to be used. Example: ladders/stairs, ability to lift/move 50+ pounds, ability to wear a self-contained breathing apparatus, working on knees for extended periods of time, working with hands overhead for extended periods of time.

The Engineering Manager of Co-Generation systems primary focus is to manage the operations, maintenance, fuel purchases, environmental compliance, and the growth of Cogeneration plants to meet the needs of the University in a safe, reliable, and environmentally friendly manner. This is achieved by establishing both short-term and long-term goals for Cogeneration Systems and managing them in a fiscally responsible manner. This position provides motivation, direction, and supervision to 100+ employees (including permanent, student interns, contractors, and temporary employees), of which 8 are direct reports.

The eight direct reports are a multi-disciplinary group of persons who, in turn, are responsible for plants and steam system engineering, plant operations, campus steam distribution systems and maintenance, power plant mechanical maintenance, instrumentation and controls, warehouse operations and purchasing, and the administration office.

Short term goals are established by this position to ensure a continued safe and reliable plant operations that supply steam and generated electricity to the campus and the UNC Hospitals. This position develops the yearly budget to ensure that funds are available for the purchase of fuels, effective and proactive maintenance, and continued training of staff, and to ensure that environmental compliance is met, while also minimizing the impact on the rates charged to the customers.

This position establishes and maintains very high operational and maintenance standards along with developing key performance indicators to drive efficiency and performance of the Co-generation systems operations.

Long term goals are established by this position in concert with staff engineers and design consultants to determine the needs of Cogeneration Systems to meet the long-term objectives of the University. Master Utility planning, and life cycle cost analyst, utility rate structuring to establish the infrastructure needs and identify required projects. The position works with staff engineers, members of Energy Services and other groups within the University to justify the projects, determine the fiscal needs for the projects, participate in…