ABOUT STANFORD UNIVERSITY AND RESIDENTIAL & DINING ENTERPRISES:

Stanford University is one of the world's leading teaching and research universities. Founded in 1891, Stanford’s mission is to create and share knowledge and to prepare students to be curious, to think critically, and to contribute to the world. With world-class scholars and seven schools located together on a single campus, Stanford offers academic excellence across the broadest array of disciplines including business, education, engineering, humanities and sciences, law, medicine, and sustainability. It also is an engine of innovation, blending theory and practice to move ideas and discoveries from labs and classrooms out into the world. Stanford strives to foster a culture of expansive inquiry, fresh thinking, searching discussion, and freedom of thought – preparing students for leadership and engaged citizenship in the world. The university is located between San Francisco and San Jose in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, on a scenic 8,180-acre campus.

Residential & Dining Enterprises (R&DE), the largest auxiliary organization at Stanford University, supports the academic mission of the university by providing high-quality services to students and other members of the university community. R&DE has an annual operating budget of $400M, operates 24/7/365, and oversees a $3B asset portfolio comprising over 7 million square feet—one-third of the campus footprint. R&DE provides housing for 16,000 students and dependents, serves 8 million meals annually at 48 student dining venues and 32 culinary enterprises. In addition, R&DE provides executive services, conference operations, and guest lodging. R&DE is a talented and diverse team of 1,200+ who comprise the following divisions: Student Housing Operations & Stanford Conferences; Stanford Dining and Hospitality & Auxiliaries; Maintenance Operations and Capital Projects; and a team of R&DE strategic business partners—Finance & Administration, Information Technology, Human Resources, and Strategic Communications and Marketing.

“Students (Customers) First” is R&DE’s mantra and its strategic goals reflect its commitment to delivering service excellence to the campus community. R&DE’s belief is “students are never an interruption in our day; they are the reason we are here.”

R&DE’s dedication to promoting fair treatment, access to opportunities, and a positive work environment is reflected in its essential priorities and efforts for cultivating a culture of operational excellence as a foundational cornerstone. R&DE is committed to creating and sustaining inclusive excellence where all staff feel a sense of belonging and are empowered to thrive.

Maximize maintenance crew productivity across shifts and work groups through effective, customer-oriented scheduling while controlling the backlog of emergency, routine, renewal, and preventive maintenance work orders. Independently coordinate solutions, solely supporting the operations and maintenance work order management.

Posted Salary Range is $76,780-$143,322 per year.

Schedule is Monday - Friday 7:30 am to 4:30 pm.

This role is designated as essential and requires incumbents to report to work onsite. Telecommuting is not available for this role.

Core Duties:

• Independently plan, organize, and schedule workflow for corrective, preventive, and predictive maintenance work, and short and long-term projects to meet priority demands.

• Compile daily, weekly, and multi-week schedules for facilities operations and maintenance work for assigned unit(s).

• Provide timely customer service on reactive work orders while balancing preventive maintenance work schedules by analyzing circumstances based on situational variables and available resources.

• Follow-up, problem-solve, and trouble-shoot processes, communicate scheduling information and status of maintenance work issues with customers and staff.

• Perform follow-up response to after-hours, holiday, and weekend calls to determine if process was completed or if additional resources are needed.

• Determine work plans based upon site-wide field trips, priority, available workforce, and other criteria. Review and confirm plans and schedules with craftsmen management.

• Monitor, track, review, and analyze open work orders and work order aging for assigned maintenance groups. Establish work priorities to meet operational needs, minimize work order backlog and ensure timely completion.

• Enter, manipulate, analyze and extract data using maintenance management system.

• Identify opportunities to improve processes, planning or performance through analysis of workflow, project demands and expectations. Prepare and review utilization and cost data to provide data-driven cost reduction recommendations.

• Consult with team supervisors to determine time standards for maintenance planning and reactive work orders.

• Evaluate vendor quotes and services to coordinate parts and material acquisitions for planned work, including preventive maintenance, moves and special projects as needed. Negotiate with vendors concerning cost, parts needs, status, tracking and follow-up.

Minimum Education and Experience

Associate’s degree and three years of related work order scheduling experience, or a combination of education and relevant experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrated success in following through and completing projects.

• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills.

• Analytical ability and skills to operate a computerized maintenance program and produce reports.

• Demonstrated ability to manage short deadlines, navigate changing priorities, and follow disciplined and variable work processes.

• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of facility maintenance procedures and systems; strong understanding of preventive maintenance.

• Ability to identify and apply the maintenance service-provider roles of each shop, the roles of contract services, proper sequencing of repair work, and facilities and construction terminology as related to the performance of maintenance work.

• Strong skills in technologies/platforms that support business operations and communications.