Facilities Management
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MISSION STATEMENT To provide services focused on asset management and preservation of County owned property and provide customer services for the tenants and users through: team oriented, decentralized, prompt, competitive, quality service to all customers; focusing on its primary core responsibilities of operations and maintenance of County assets; and providing or coordinating additional services beyond operations and maintenance to County building tenants and departments at cost in a quality, competitive, responsive manner. |
JACK H. TAKERIAN, DIRECTOR DAVID W. SCHANING, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Rich Berndt, Mechanical Service Manager Dave McMahon, Mechanical Service Manager Gary Waszak, Facilities Maintenance Coordinator Ernesto Sanchez, Security Coordinator |
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
The Division is divided into seven primary areas:
- Courthouse
- Safety Building
- Children's Court Center
- City Campus
- County Grounds
- Community Corrections Center
- Criminal Justice Center
Facilities Management is a division under the Department of Transportation and Public Works. Facilities Management is Milwaukee County's owner representative of over 3.7 million square feet of building space and the grounds for the sites and the support services covering that area.
The Facilities Management Division has 149 highly talented and diverse staff members managing the complex array of responsibilities and customers. The varied expertise needed to handle the maintenance and operations is composed of mostly skilled trades working in specialized areas and a large complement of multi-skilled staff. These hands-on team members are supported by fiscal, clerical and management staff, all geared to provide customer services.
The work handled by these highly talented team members covers a dramatic range of problems such as failed sewer/water systems, heating/air conditioning failures, electrical outages, building evacuations, code complaints, slip/fall accidents, gas leaks, personnel absences and routine minor repairs and equipment checks.
The Facilities Management Division provides services and has direct contacts that affect all tenants, users and visitors of County buildings. These services impact the buildings' interiors and the general building sites.
Each operating location functions as a business unit but is closely related in structure, standard procedures and interdependency with all other units through the Facilities Management offices at the Courthouse, Room G-1. The complexity of the customer base, the funding sources and the building variations in age, geography, use, and construction present tremendous challenges.
The Facilities Management Division is constantly working to improve the services which we provide by using new technology - emphasizing more effective performance, better reporting and more responsiveness to the customer. Facilities Management's goal is to be a class operation. One way to achieve this is not to measure how we compare to others but by others comparing themselves to us.