Associate Director, Central Plant & Energy Services

Job Summary

Under the general direction of the Interim Associate Vice President for Facilities Development and Operations and in collaboration within the Department and with colleagues across the campus, the Associate Director- Central Plant & Energy Services is responsible for leadership, management, and supervisory oversight of Central Plant operations and the energy services program.  In this role, the incumbent is responsible for all operation, maintenance and repair at the Central Plant to ensure safe, reliable, efficient and sustainable electricity, heating and cooling services to the buildings on campus.  This includes management of personnel for the Central Plant Chief Engineer and the Senior Energy & Utility analyst and Sr. Sustainability Program Lead as well as for the oversight, management and implementation of contracted services related to the area of assignment.  The incumbent is also charged with ensuring energy generation and efficiency services and any associated outage communications are provided to the campus in a clear, consistent and organized manner.  This position requires the management and collaboration of numerous campus-based customers and works in conjunction with other department managers and senior leadership. 

The Energy, Utilities and Sustainability unit of Facilities Development & Operations provides services to a University campus spread across multiple sites comprised of 197 acres, 80 buildings, and more than six million gross square feet. Primary responsibilities of this unit are associated with operation of the Main Campus and its central energy plant and utility infrastructure. The Main Campus utility infrastructure consists of a 5.5MW natural gas fired co-generation plant with large capacity chillers, thermal energy storage system, auxiliary boilers, high voltage substation and medium voltage switchgear and electrical distribution infrastructure at 33 building substations. Utilities infrastructure also includes steam, condensate and distributed chilled water pumping systems, up to and including the interface to the connections in the campus buildings. Additionally, the unit is responsible for the fire/life safety and security systems for the Main Campus and all other off campus sites. The Energy & Utilities unit employs approximately 18 full time permanent staff.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for day-to-day management, coordination and quality control of Central Plant operations, maintenance, and repair services in support of the University’s mission and department goals and in accordance with standards, codes, and regulations. Includes responsibility for chiller plant, boiler plant and cogeneration systems and work efforts in supporting the campus.
• Ensures the effective work flow, priority, and delivery of services through the department’s common maintenance management system (CMMS) in coordination with others to ensure a seamless operation. 
• Prioritizes work orders and communicates assignments and priorities to staff.  Reviews workloads and makes determination of appropriate strategies necessary to achieve desired outcomes including contracting out.
• Ensures successful completion of work orders, including those associated with “trouble call” resolution, preventive maintenance, routine maintenance and repair, and customer cost recovery work.
• Identifies and determines problem root cause; develops and presents recommendations for improvement of processes and practices; initiates and implements plans to solve problems.
• Prepares progress reports, informs Director of work effort status and deviation from assigned goals; prepares activity reports for management guidance.
• Implements assigned maintenance, repair and renewal projects.
• Develops and oversees the implementation of energy efficiency projects including but not limited to controls upgrades, retro-commissioning, lighting and HVAC retrofits using the CSU energy service company (ESCO) master enabling agreements per the District Energy Master Plan.
• For the Energy Services program, the incumbent will direct, oversee and supervise energy audits, the development of investment grade assessments and the handover of developed and funding projects to assigned project manager in Maintenance and Infrastructure unit for implementation.  The incumbent will work with campus stakeholders and the HVAC shops to reduce energy costs through low to no cost measures such as scheduling, air balancing and where controls equipment permits setback strategies.
• Oversees the implementation of the sustainability program to maintain, improve the quality of the points specifically.
• Manages assigned budget including monthly review, tracking, and forecasting of needs for all positions, supplies, contracts, a