Assistant Director, Facilities Operations​/Landscape & Grounds

Assistant Director, Facilities Operations/Landscape & Grounds

Posting Number: SF02182

Position Type: Professional Staff

Union: PSA/NEA - Professional Staff Assoc

Pay Grade Level: Grade Level: 15

Pay Grade Range: Anticipated Hiring Salary Range: $100,000 - $115,000

Department: Facilities Operations

Campus

Location:

Kingston

About URI: The University of Rhode Island enrolls approximately 17,000 students across its graduate and undergraduate programs and is the State's flagship public research university, as well as the land grant and sea grant university, for the state of Rhode Island. The main campus is located in the historic village of Kingston, and the Bay Campus is located in Narragansett. Both campuses are near major beaches in a beautiful coastal community.

URI is just 30 minutes from Providence, RI and within easy reach of Newport, Boston, and New York City.

Supervise and direct personnel engaged in the maintenance and care of all lands and grounds at the University of Rhode Island Kingston campus. Manage and oversee the University's automotive maintenance operations, including mechanics and service technicians responsible for fleet vehicles and smallengine equipment (mowers, utility vehicles, snow removal equipment, landscape machinery). Manage the University's waste and recycling operations, including internal collection, waste hauling contracts, recycling material separation, sustainability tracking, and oversight of the campus transfer station.

Oversee ongoing maintenance and continuous improvement of the campus landscape, grounds, sports fields, and hardscape. Organize and assign personnel, equipment, materials, and contracts. Ensure safe, clean, and accessible pedestrian walkways, roads, and parking areas in all conditions.

• Plan, organize, direct, review and evaluate work of personnel assigned to the Landscape and Grounds Division, Automotive Maintenance operations, and Waste & Recycling Division.
• Utilize GIS and mapping systems to plan and communicate department activities.
• Develop and execute department budgets, manage personnel, equipment, materials, and contracted services.
• Implement University Tree Council recommendations, maintain and manage tree inventories and tree care programs.
• Consult with campus planning and construction units on landscape, roads, parking, athletic fields, irrigation, and exterior infrastructure projects.
• Develop master plan components and project proposals for campus exterior environments.
• Implement best management practices for landscape care, fleet operations, and waste and recycling management.
• Review work schedules, assign workforce resources, establish and monitor performance standards.
• Maintain campus access in all weather, direct snow removal and emergency response operations.
• Prepare reports and develop specifications, bid documents, contracts, and procurement packages for materials, equipment, professional services, maintenance contracts, and construction projects; administer and monitor contractor performance and contract compliance.
• Implement and oversee specialized Athletics Grounds staff to support athletic facilities and events.
• Oversee preventive and corrective maintenance of fleet vehicles and smallengine equipment, manage parts inventory and maintenance tracking systems, ensure safety, environmental compliance, and regulatory adherence.
• Plan for equipment life cycles, replacements, and procurement.
• Oversee internal waste collection and recycling programs, waste hauling contracts and vendors, transfer station operations, regulatory compliance; track and report waste diversion and recycling metrics, and support sustainability initiatives.

• Initiate and present studies and recommendations.
• Perform additional duties as required.

• Valid driver's license.
• Current Pesticide application license or ability to attain within six months of appointment.
• Microsoft Office and GIS platforms.

Posting Date: 07/23/2026