UC Merced Facilities Managers Roles and Responsibilities
Non 2020 Buildings
Primary Duties:
- State Supported Operations: Ensure proper function and support of state-funded/supported operations (classroom, teaching labs, research labs). The Facilities Manager ensures proper function and operation of the building systems, including electrical supply, HVAC and environmental controls, and physical access.
- Building Community Support: Facilities Managers work with building occupants to ensure a safe and habitable work environment to support their operations. Facilities Managers prepare and distribute facility communications notifying the buildings’ community of scheduled maintenance, utility disruption, and other building wide disruptions, always working to have minimal building and operational impact.
- Compliance, Security & Safety: Facilities Managers respond to all building emergencies and work closely with Risk Services and other campus regulatory departments to ensure the asset has minimal loss and that operations can continue safely once the emergency is addressed. Facilities Managers work with EH&S, Fire and Building Officials, and Risk Services to ensure compliance and safety while protecting the assets and occupants. The Facilities Manager will ensure the state-funded assets and state-funded operations are up to date and compliant with all safety, building, and fire codes that may be noted during Title 19 inspections.
- Maintenance, Procedures, and Methods: Facilities Managers work closely with the Facilities Superintendents and Skilled Trades to determine timelines and schedules for building maintenance and repairs of major systems. This may include contracting out services to repair building systems, taking into consideration the effect the scheduled work will have on the buildings’ occupants and peripheral systems, and taking this into consideration during the planning process.
Secondary Duties:
- Project Coordination: Facilities Managers can assist with minor projects requested by departments within a building. These may include painting, minor electrical work, furniture reconfiguration, and space moves. The Facilities Managers will coordinate contractor job walks, procure estimates, work with contractors to issue approved contracts for customers and assist in on-site contractor management.
Note: All projects requiring design consultants and Fire and Building permits will be assigned to a Facilities Project Manager.
The presentations below provide information on the most common Fire Marshal violations for office and lab spaces and prevention methods.
Fire Marshal Violations - Offices
Fire Marshal Violations - Labs
Facilities Manager Building Assignments
Ricardo was born in Merced and grew up in Merced County. Ricardo managed a local carpet cleaning & restoration company for 13 years.
Ricardo joined UC Merced in April 2005 as a Senior Custodian, 6 months later was promoted to Principal Custodial Supervisor and in 2010 was promoted to Custodial Manager.
Ricardo was presented the 2007-2008 Director’s Award honoring Custodial Services and in 2011 was awarded a Staff Excellence Award. He was hired as a Facilities Manager In 2014. Ricardo continues to give great customer service to all the buildings that he manages.
Daniel joined UC Merced’s Facilities Management in December 2021.
Daniel has 14 years of experience in building maintenance here at UC Merced. He was born and raised in Merced and is a business owner in Merced County.
Daniel enjoys spending time with family and traveling.
Tyler joined us as a Facility Manager in March 2019.
Tyler was born and raised in Merced with long family roots in the area. Tyler comes with ten years of construction and property management experience working for a Central Valley based property management company that managed commercial agriculture and residential properties.
Tyler attended Merced College, then Fresno Pacific University where he obtained an AA in Fire Technologies and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.
Mark joined UC Merced as a Facilities Manager in February 2006.
Mark has more than 25 years of experience in the HVAC industry and has worked in the health care industry, as well. In addition to managing projects in medical research labs, he also enjoys furthering his education.
Mark earned his Certified Construction Manager certificate through the Advanced Construction Management Program at UC Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business, and continues to take continuing education classes through webinars and UC-offered programs.
Albert joined the Facilities Management team in December 2021 as a Facilities Manager.
Albert was born and raised in Merced, CA. Before joining UC Merced, he was a partner at a local screen print shop in 2008. Albert started at UC Merced as a laborer and quickly moved his way up to Housing Custodial Supervisor and then as a Facilities Manager.
Outside of work, he enjoys camping outdoors and restoring classic cars.
As an original founding staff member of UC Merced, Van has been with Facilities Management since early 2002, when the Campus was still an active golf course. His broad array of experience in commercial construction, development, and real property financing/leasing and management was instrumental to his mission of opening the 10th Campus of the UC system.
As UC Merced has developed and its’ properties have expanded, Van has assumed the management role for the UC Merced Center in Fresno, the Campus’ Natural Reserve System research field stations in Yosemite and Kings Canyon/Sequoia National Parks, the 7,000+ acre UC Merced Vernal Pools and Grasslands Reserve and the Buckhorn Flat Ranch property in Coulterville.
Van is a Fresno native with long ties to the valley and an affinity for the great outdoors that abound around the UC Merced Campus and Central Valley.
