Public Safety Dispatcher and Info Coordinator

UPMC is excited to be hiring for a Public Safety Dispatcher opening at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. This position will be scheduled for daylight or evening shifts.

Why Choose UPMC?

• Paid Time Off, plus seven paid holidays each year
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $6,000 per academic year at any accredited institution, available to employees and their dependents
• Paid parental leave and adoption assistance
• Care for your total well-being with UPMC’s robust benefits package – physically, financially, and emotionally

Purpose:
Responsible for the multiple monitoring and communications functions for the Public Safety and Facilities/Maintenance departments. Handles the facility work order system and related functions. Receives work order requests, issues work orders, monitors systems and alarms, receives telephone and radio calls and dispatches staff to routine and emergency situations.

Responsibilities:
 

• Receive calls for service and dispatches appropriate personnel to respond. Calls or alarms may originate by telephone call, personal request, radio or automated system or Operations Center dispatchers may observe activity on the VMS monitors which requires intervention. 
• Monitor all VMS locations. Report malfunctioning cameras, obscured views, etc. Notice activity on the monitors and dispatch appropriate Facilities/HSS personnel to respond to a location. Ensure patient safety by monitoring and initiating responses to building alarm systems including the pneumatic tube system, Johnson Control automated temperature control system, access control, security and panic alarms, Simplex fire alarm system and other alarms. 
• Responsible for monitoring and administration of the access control system. 
• Enter and manipulate data and programs employee access cards as appropriate. 
• Operate facilities' work order system including receiving and opening ON DEMAND work orders, preventive maintenance work orders, work order closing and work order reporting. 
• Maintain written logs for all calls and operations center activities as needed including calls received and dispatched, safe transactions, fire system, etc. Under the direction of appropriate managers and supervisors schedules the work of outside service companies, i.e., elevators, utility companies, city water authority, etc. 
• Prepare service outage announcements as required and distributes to all affected parties. Provide clerical duties for Operations Center-related activities including preparing purchase orders, manual typing, word processing, filing and telephone answering as required. Compile, copy and distribute maintenance and construction announcements to designated department representatives and outside contractors. Successfully pass and obtain access to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Law Enforcement Assistance Network (CLEAN) and any associated certifications within 90 days of hire
• Provide CLEAN services to all UPMC Public Safety staff. Operate a CLEAN terminal in accordance to Pennsylvania and UPMC policy. Administer CLEAN information as needed to include dissemination. Serve as the receiver of systemwide alarm notifications and initiate responses to them. Administer the Western Pennsylvania License Plate Reader (LPR) system on behalf of UPMC Public Safety Staffa. Serve as the receiver of systemwide notifications emanating from Western Pennsylvania's License Plate Reader (LPR) system and disseminating those notifications according to established protocol. Providing LPR information into and out of the LPR for all UPMC Public Safety staff. Add warrant service. Add threat line.