1 Vice President for Operations Job in Auburn, VA
Vcom is Hiring a Vice President for Operations Near Auburn, VA
Job Title: Vice President for Operations
Department: Operations Date: April 1, 2024
FLSA: Exempt Work Location: All Campuses
Employee Category: Administrative Staff Work Schedule: M-F, Schedule
Varies
Reports to: President Percent Employment: 100%
Direct Reports: Directors of Facilities – All Campuses, Administrative
Assistant for Operations
I. Job Summary: The Vice President for Operations (VP) is responsible for ensuring
sufficient and appropriate facilities on the VCOM Campuses are maintained to serve the
academic and research programs of the College. The facilities should be maintained in a
manner that enables students and faculty to successfully pursue the educational goals and
curricula of the school and ensures that facilities are appropriate to support the stated
mission of the College. The College has four campuses that are overseen by this position.
The VP for Operations will oversee the facilities team on each campus and approves the
engagement of all outside maintenance support to ensure no deferred maintenance would
threaten future operations of the College.
The VP reports directly to the President and provides innovative and strategic leadership
for all college facilities/campuses. The VP has direct oversight for the facility
management department: Facilities management oversight includes new construction,
site and infrastructure development, renovations; and all planned maintenance projects.
The VP importantly oversees that each campus has appropriate safety and security
measures.
The VP also works closely with all senior administration, including college Vice
Presidents, the Provost, Vice Provosts, and the Campus Deans, and fosters collaborative
partnerships to ensure the effective management of all college facilities and resources.
The VP has accountability and broad oversight for all facilities, and is responsible for the
design, construction and maintenance of all occupied buildings and grounds, and is
responsible for implementing procedures to ensure full compliance of the design and
execution of work in all college facilities, with applicable codes, standards and permitting
requirements, as well as other college concerns.
The VP oversees the Director for Facilities on each campus and reviews all facility related
work and establishes a review process to ensure all college departments are adhering to
college facilities policies.
II. Job Duties:
Leadership
- Develop with the President a vision and strategic plan to guide the organization in its
campuses.
- Implement a continuous assessment process for each campus that reviews all facility
objectives.
- Provides vision, leadership, planning, administration, and evaluation of all aspects of
- Prepares and presents semi-annual reports to the VCOM Board of Directors.
- Provides leadership and oversight to the strategic and operational planning for
college facilities, ensuring that goals and objectives are accomplished consistent with
college mission and strategic plans, and ensures that effective mechanisms are
developed to meet established goals.
- Provides leadership, coaching, and supervision to staff; setting management goals,
and employee development program for staff.
- Provides executive oversight for the design and physical development of the college
long-range plan; as well as the continuous review of the college preservation of
existing assets, landscape design, furniture standards, signage and accessibility
requirements.
- Provides leadership and build team spirit for directors and team members,
highest levels of performance, set goals, and provide challenging assignments that
foster employee self-learning and development.
Facilities
- Draft policies for approval by the President regarding building hours, safety,
- Responsible for decision making regarding delays or closings due to inclement
- Recommends policies for the effective management of college facilities; ensures
business operation.
- Assists the President in conducting ongoing long-range planning necessary to
changing governmental guidelines and regulations, and support for the college's
strategic plan.
- Ensures compliance with relevant laws and regulations related to construction, code
Campus Safety and Security
- Responsible for completing and submitting the Annual Campus Safety and Security
- Responsible for enforcing safety and security policies on all VCOM campuses.
- Responsible for continually updating Emergency Action Plan for all VCOM
- Responsible for any safety/security related to parking lots and grounds including
campuses.
Human Resources Planning and Management
- Assist the President to determine staffing requirements for organizational
- Work with Human Resources department to recruit new employees.
- Hire, train and schedule all Facilities staff.
- Development of job ads and job descriptions for new Facilities staff.
- Evaluate Facilities staff as required by probationary period or annual reviews.
- Submit annual budget and staffing request to the President and CFO for budget
- Review budget against actual expenditures quarterly with CFO.
- Ensure that expenditures are within established budget.
Community Relations/Advocacy
- Represent and promote the college in a positive light when interacting with external
- Establish collaborative partnerships and good working relationships with
Monroe, Clemson University, Bluefield University and Virginia Tech.
Risk Management
- Identify and evaluate organizational risks and advise the President and CFO of
Other:
- Ethical Behavior: Understand ethical behavior and business practices and ensure
and aligns with the values of the organization.
- Relationship-Building: Establish and maintain positive working relationships with
- Effective Communication: Speak, listen, and write in a clear, thorough and timely
- Focus on Client Needs: Anticipate, understand and respond to the needs of
organizational parameters.
- Foster Teamwork: Work cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals,
- Management: Positively influence others to achieve results that are in the best
- Decision-Making: Assess situations to determine the importance, urgency, and
organization.
- Organization: Set priorities, develop a work schedule, monitor progress towards
- Planning: Determine strategies to move the organization forward, set goals, create,
- Problem-Solving: Assess problem situations to identify causes, gather and process
and/or resolve the problem.
III. Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Building Construction or related field, or equivalent
- Demonstrated experience in managing simultaneous, multiple, large scale capital
- Strong management experience in a corporate or academic environment.
- Budget management experience, to include purchasing and contract negotiations.
- Excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Ability to engage fully with a variety of individuals in a diverse, multicultural
- Ability to bring a "best practice" approach to processes and procedures that fosters a
Preferences may be given to candidates who possess a degree or certification in
mechanical engineering.
The successful candidate will be subject to a criminal history background check.
Regular, reliable, or predictable attendance is an essential function of the job.
IV. Working Conditions and Efforts: The physical demands and work environment
characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an
employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the
essential functions.
Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally
required to sit; use hands and vision for office equipment such as computers; talk or
hear; moderate telephone usage. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to
50 pounds, frequent walking, bending, reaching and standing.
Work environment: Office environment. Outside travel required 25% of time. The
noise level in the work environment is usually minimal.
This position is classified as an exempt position under the Executive exemption
status because the primary function of the candidate/employee is managing
several positions and is also an Administrative Officer of the College.
Employment with VCOM is “at will”. This means employment is for an
indefinite period and it is subject to termination by the employee or by VCOM,
with or without cause, with or without notice, and at any time. Nothing in this
position description or any other policy of VCOM shall be interpreted to conflict
with or to eliminate or modify, in any way, the “at will” employment status of
VCOM employees. Employees under contract with VCOM are subject to the
terms of employment stated within the employment contract.
V. VCOM core values: The employee is expected to adhere to all VCOM policies. As the
environment is a professional college, the VCOM faculty/staff are expected to dress and
behave in a professional manner at work. The VCOM faculty/staff are also expected to
as a VCOM employee to be a person who follows all laws and professional expectations
of an upstanding citizen of the community. VCOM expects all employees to maintain a
positive attitude in all working relationships with all VCOM departments, employees,
medical students, prospective medical students, interns, and residents and to treat all
others engaged in the duties of the employment, with mutual respect.
Job Summary
Full Time
Scientific Services
$202k-287k (estimate)
04/06/2024
06/04/2024
v-com.com
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA
50 - 100
2003
SURINDER KUMAR
<$5M
Scientific Services
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