FROM: James D. Herberg, General Manager
Originator: Celia Chandler, Director of Human Resources
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POSITION CHANGES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019-20
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GENERAL MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION
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RECOMMENDATION: Recommend to the Board of Directors to:
Approve a position exchange and corresponding salary upgrade from a vacant Senior Mechanic (Salary Grade LOC67) position to Maintenance Specialist (Salary Grade PRO80).
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BACKGROUND
Orange County Sanitation District (Sanitation District) management has evaluated its operations and identified opportunities to optimize planned maintenance strategies in the Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Department by creating a new Preventative Maintenance (PM) Optimization Group. Currently, maintenance specialists schedule up to six hundred (600) incoming work orders per week. The proposed PM Optimization Group will track, maintain, and manage assets throughout their lifecycle to maximize reliability at the lowest possible costs; ensuring both planned and corrective (unplanned) maintenance efforts are effective.
The proposed PM Optimization Group will require four position exchanges with no increase to the overall number of full-time staff. Currently, the Sanitation District has four vacant budgeted positions with job titles/pay that can be exchanged for the position titles and salaries needed to form the group. Three of the four positions can be filled from vacant positions that are at a higher salary grade. One of the positions will require an upgrade as requested in the recommended action above. The proposed PM Optimization Group will be comprised of one Maintenance Supervisor and three Maintenance Specialists.
Three position exchanges and salary downgrades were implemented through the meet and confer process including:
* Engineering Manager (Salary Grade EM18) to Maintenance Supervisor (Salary Grade SUP82);
* Principal Staff Analyst (Salary Grade PRO84) to Maintenance Spec...
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