Job Title: Energy & Systems Automation Manager
Supervisor: Director of Facilities and Construction Management
Salary: Administrative Salary Schedule- $64,000 - $70,615 depending on degree/education, certifications, and experience
Contract Length: 240-day
Job Summary: Lead, manage, and facilitate district facilities automation including energy systems, HVAC systems, and key card access.
Under the direction of the Director of Facilities & Construction Management, monitor and oversee the energy usage in the district and recommend procedures and policies to improve efficiencies. Manage and facilitate the key card access project leading its expansion to full implementation district wide. Troubleshoot and repair the district ADA openers.
Education/Qualifications: - Degree or associate degree in engineering or engineering technology preferred.
- Certification in low voltage wiring preferred and/or willing to obtain.
- Advanced level of knowledge and experience working with different technologies and productivity software.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Help to program, monitor, and maintain the HVAC automation for optimal performance.
- Monitor utility usage in the district.
- Evaluate historic and present energy consumption data; compile regular and periodic energy reports/updates on the division's utility costs and consumption.
- Develop, propose, and present policy for energy consumption to the Superintendent and school board.
- Monitor ADA door openers across the district for proper operation and make or arrange for repair.
- Monitor Key card lock access for proper operation across the district and make or arrange for repair.
- Oversee the programming and monitoring of key cards for all district employees.
- Coordinate with the Facilities Department, Construction department, and the technology department on the installation and standardization of all electrical components in the district and support integrated key/card and surveillance camera installs.
- Set working hours for self so district is monitored and taken care of successfully.
- Make weekly visits to all sites to monitor utility usage.
- Conduct building audits and studies; provide recommendations for improvements and savings opportunities.
- Help to program and monitor the HVAC automation for optimal performance.
- Maintain and program lighting controls for optimization of energy usage.
- Identify and track potential grant funding sources and assist with grant process.
- Conducting energy audits of facilities to identify areas for improvement in energy efficiency
- Estimating future energy demand based on facility plans such as building expansions or new construction projects
- Developing energy conservation plans, including implementing energy-saving solutions such as renewable energy sources or more efficient lighting systems
- Develop reports on energy conservation systems and impact.
- Present, at minimum, quarterly reports to district leadership and school board on the district energy conservation efforts, impact, and next steps.
- Providing technical support for energy conservation projects, equipment maintenance, and troubleshooting issues
- Monitoring electricity and natural gas usage to ensure that consumption rates are within acceptable limits
- Analyzing utility bills to track facility energy use, identify cost trends, and detect errors or fraudulent activity
- Identifying opportunities to reduce energy consumption through energy audits, implementing energy-efficient technologies, or negotiating with suppliers to create long-term contracts
- Coordinating with outside contractors to install energy efficiency measures, such as solar panels or energy-efficient lighting equipment.
Note: This is not an exhaustive or all-inclusive list of responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts, functions, or working conditions associated with the job. This job description is not a contract of employment or a promise or guarantee of any specific terms or conditions of employment. The school district may add to, modify or delete any aspect of this job (or the position itself) at any time as it deems advisable. KNOWLEDGE OF: - Relevant district policies and procedures.
- General safety procedures and practices.
- Basic working knowledge of low voltage systems.
- Basic terminology, vocabulary, and craft skills used in key card and ADA operators.
- Applicable codes, regulations, and safety orders.
- Ability to learn computer programs and monitor energy programs.
- Leadership skills including the ability to collaborate, identify deficiencies and propose policy change to address these deficiencies.
- Safe operation of equipment.
- Purchasing practices and procedures.
- Ability to set and manage their own hours.
- Ability to get in front of large groups and train.
- Computers and associated utility software.
- Basic purchasing policies, practices, and terminology.
- School Funding
- Health and safety regulations.
- Equipment and supplies used in a school system.
- GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF SUPERVISION AND TRAINING
ABILITY TO: - Work on and with computers, knowing basic computer applications.
- Perform low-voltage wiring and other task associated with door access.
- Be able to teach and train others.
- Develop and give presentations on district conservation efforts and impact.
- Ability to repair and troubleshoot door entry equipment.
- Understand and carry out oral and written instructions.
- Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships.
- Read, interpret, and follow rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
- Read and write in English at a level of successful job performance.
- Drive and operate vehicles and equipment efficiently and safely.
- Keep basic work records and make simple reports.
- Perform heavy physical labor within federal and state guidelines.
- Work varied hours, as needed (i.e., early mornings, or late evenings, weekends).
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: - Low voltage wiring experience or the ability to be trained in this.
- Door operator operation or the ability to be trained in this.
- Key card access operation or the ability to be trained in this.
LANGUAGE SKILLS: - Ability to read and understand technical manuals.
- Ability to research, evaluate and implement troubleshooting options.
- Ability to communicate information verbally and in writing.
- Ability to read and comprehend moderately complex instructions, correspondence, and memos.
- Ability to compose and write correspondence.
- Ability to effectively present information and train others in one-on-one and small to medium-group situations.
- Bilingual in English/Spanish preferred.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: - Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
REASONING ABILITY: - Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where standardization exits.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: - Valid Driver's License
- OSHA 10-hour card or willing to obtain
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear. The employee is required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
SAFETY AND HEALTH: Knowledge of universal hygiene precautions (blood-borne pathogens, body fluids, etc.)
WORKER TRAITS AND APTITUDES: - Adaptability to perform required tasks in a complex office operation with multiple demands from several sources.
- Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, statements, etc.
- Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, evaluations, statements, etc. using prescribed formats.
- Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form.
- Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a variety of technical or professional languages including insurance, personnel, and governmental terminology.
- Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Walking, standing, sitting, bending, kneeling and squatting, climbing stairs, speaking and listening, reaching with hands and arms, having full mobility of fingers/hands to finger, handle or feel, close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus, carrying, lifting, and moving up to 25 pounds and/or moving light furniture may be required.???
Reasonable (ADA) accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions if mutually agreed on and if those accommodations do not create an undue hardship upon the district.?
WORKING CONDITIONS: Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors
- Maintain emotional control under stress, work with frequent interruptions.
- Some districtwide and statewide travel.
- Occasional, prolonged, and irregular working hours.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works in inside environmental conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: Salary and work year according to current schedule
EVALUATION: The performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with the provisions of the Board of Education's policy on evaluation of administrative personnel.
THE DEMING PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AND DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE ON THE BASIS OF RACE, NATIONAL ORIGIN, RELIGION, AGE, SEX, MARITAL STATUS, OR HANDICAP IN COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL AND STATE LAWS
February 2025
