Plant Manager; Inst

Central Plant Manager (Inst)

Location: Milwaukee, WI

Job Category: Academic Staff

Employment Type: Regular, Full Time

The Central Plant Manager oversees multiple campus utility plants and is responsible for both strategic and daily operations of the state-owned centralized heating and cooling plant serving the UW-Milwaukee Kenwood Campus, as well as six satellite plants.

• Confers with plant staff daily to establish steam and compressed air production, chilling priorities, electricity generation, and to discuss equipment availability, chemical treatment operation, work scheduling, and personnel problems.
• Oversees maintenance and capital projects in progress.
• Exercises supervisory authority over at least 2.0 full-time equivalent employees, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and approving hours worked.
• Develops and implements policies and procedures to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient use of the central plants.
• Develops, plans, and participates in startup and commissioning activities.
• Manages a 24/7/365 operation, ensuring safe and efficient operation, monitoring, and maintenance of four high-pressure steam boilers (natural gas and #2 ultra-low sulfur oil) and three chillers.
• Operates Programmable Logic Controllers, associated Human-Machine Interface devices, and Variable Frequency Drives.
• Maintains underground fuel oil tank records in compliance with EPA and state regulations; maintains emissions and operational records.
• Prepares project requests for small projects and all-agency submissions and fosters relationships with university personnel, administration staff, contractors, vendors, and students.

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or related field, or equivalent education and experience.
• Minimum five years of utility or plant utilities system leadership experience.
• Minimum five years of experience in maintenance and operation of utility or industrial plant utilities production systems.
• Experience working with engineering plans and specifications.
• Technical and project management skills to design and execute projects.
• Experience operating and maintaining plant equipment individually and in interconnected systems.
• Analysis of plant performance and implementation of energy optimization strategies.
• Experience creating and managing budgets in an operations environment.
• Experience operating PLC based control systems, including troubleshooting input/output devices.

• Wisconsin Professional Engineering license (PE).
• Ten or more years of progressive utility system supervisory experience.
• American Society of Power Engineers (ASOPE) 2nd Class Power Plant Operators License or equivalent.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Direct experience managing construction projects.
• Knowledge of the Heating Plant Section of the Division of Facilities Development.
• Thorough understanding of plant equipment, operations, steam and chilled water distribution, high pressure boiler maintenance and operation, and large tonnage chiller operation.

Salary: $110,000 – $120,000.

UWM is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, disability, veteran status, or any other protected basis.