Plant Manager; Inst

Central Plant Manager (Inst)

Milwaukee, WI - Full Time

Position Title: Central Plant Manager (Inst)

Job Category: Academic Staff

Employment Type: Regular

Job Profile: Heat/Cool Plant Manager (Inst)

Job Duties: The Central Plant Manager oversees multiple campus utility plants and is responsible for both strategic and daily operations. Reporting to the Associate Director of Facility Services, this position manages the state‑owned centralized heating and cooling plant serving the UW‑Milwaukee Kenwood Campus, as well as six satellite plants. Key responsibilities include prioritizing and scheduling plant activities; directing heating and cooling production;

coordinating equipment availability, chemical treatment, and supervising plant staff. Responsible for compliance with multiple entities for data reporting, maintenance requirements, and standard procedures. The manager creates effective relationships across the UW system, state agencies, vendors, and students. The role also performs a full range of duties in 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 supplying all major campus buildings.

Additional duties include operating programmable logic controllers and associated man‑machine interface devices, variable frequency drive; maintaining underground fuel oil tank records in compliance with U.S. EPA and Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services regulations; maintaining emissions and operational records; and preparing project requests for small projects and all‑agency submissions. The role also requires fostering effective relationships with university personnel, Department of Administration staff, contractors, vendors, and students.

• Confers with plant staff on a daily basis 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
• Develops, plans, and participates in startup and commissioning activities
• Develops and implements policies and procedures to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient use of the central plants
• Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full‑time equivalent (FTE) employees

Department: Facilities, Planning and Management. The department is committed to promoting respect and civility in the workplace and serves as a role model by practicing exemplary behaviors when working with customers, faculty, staff, students, and visitors. The mission is to provide a safe, sustainable, and accessible physical environment that supports learning, research, work, life, and recreation, supporting the academic and strategic objectives of the University of Wisconsin‑Milwaukee.

Compensation: $110,000 - $120,000 (Salary will be determined by finalist's knowledge, skills, and experience)

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or related field or a combination of related education and experience
• Minimum of five (5) years of utility or plant utilities system leadership experience
• Minimum of five (5) years of work experience in the maintenance and operation of utility or industrial plant utilities production systems
• Demonstrated experience working with engineering plans and specifications
• Evidence of technical and project management skills to design and execute projects
• Demonstrated experience with operating and maintaining plant equipment both individually and interconnected systems
• Demonstrated experience analyzing plant performance and implementing energy optimization strategies
• Experience creating and managing budgets in an operations environment
• Prior experience operating PLC‑based control systems, including operations and troubleshooting of input/output devices and related equipment

• WI Professional Engineering license (PE)
• Ten…