New Associate Accountant

Christine Delliskave has joined Data Systems to fill the associate accountant position. Christy has a large range of experience and expertise. As an additional role in Data Systems, one of Christy’s responsibilities will be monitoring the completion of the CS work orders. Christy will also have the charge to make sure these work orders are completed in a timely manner in addition to her many other responsibilities. Therefore your shop may receive an occasional email reminding you to complete older CS type work orders. Our goal in this new process is to improve the completion time of these work orders. Please give Christy your support in her new responsibilities.

State of the Department

Monday, October 3, 2011 Plant Operations Director, Cory Higgins delivered the annual State of the Department Address.  Topics focused on scope of responsibility, capital request for infrastructure, and organizational growth/development.

Pop Tabs

 We would like to thank the many employees of Plant Operations who have participated in the Pop Tabs for Kids collections.  Plant Operations has been collecting pop tabs for the Ronald McDonald House since February 2011. 

All of the departments in Plant Operations have been collecting pop tabs and contributing to this ongoing service project.  We would like to recognize a few extraordinary contributions. 

Dennis Bouck from the Paint Shop has brought in 3 gallon freezer bags filled with pop tabs! 

The HVAC shop has collected a big box of tabs, contributing almost as much as all the other shops combined.

This program is an easy way for people of ages to support the Ronald McDonald House and know that they area making a difference to families and children.  For more information on the project visit
http://rmhc.org/how-you-can-help/pop-tab-collections/. 

Thanks for all of your support and remembering to pull pop tabs for charity, and after you take off the tab, remember to recycle the rest of the can!

Staff Excellence Awards

Plant Operations would like to congratulate Kim Collard; she is the winner of the 2011 University of Utah Staff Excellence Award!

Kim has worked in Plant Ops Dispatch Office for seven years, recently made the move to Data Systems as our new Payroll Specialist. We know she will continue to share her talents and dedication.

Kim was nominated on her commitment to service excellence to the University community, consistently demonstrated by making students, faculty, staff and the University’s mission her top priority.  She has developed systems and enhanced programs making her a more valuable employee not only to her department but to the campus community as a whole. She is respected for her ability to look outside of the box and provide direction on ways to improve processes. Because of these great qualities she is greatly respected among her peers.



Familiar Faces in New Places

We have had a lot of changes going on in Central Services and Data Systems.  As of September 1st we will have both a new Payroll Specialist and a new Dispatcher.

As many of you are aware, Kim Collard has accepted the position as our payroll specialist.  Data Systems is excited to have her experience and knowledge as their new addition.

We are pleased to announce that Wendy Traeden from the Grounds department has accepted Kim’s old position as dispatcher. Wendy has had a variety of experience and knows the campus well. We feel confident the Wendy will be an asset to the dispatch office.

Wendy and Kim will start their new responsibilities on Thursday September 1, 2011. Please give your support to them and the dispatch office during this transition.

State Building Board Visit

On August 18, 2011 the Utah State Building Board members visit the University of Utah to learn more about this year’s $50 million capital funding request for electrical distribution and high temperature water infrastructure replacement.

Should the request for $50 million be approved and the electrical distribution system is replaced the University will:

• Reduce the frequency of power outages from an average of six outages per year per building to less than one.

• Reduce the duration of power outages from an average of 48 hours per outage to less than 1 hour per outage.

• Save the University more than $350,000 per year in transformer service charges.

• Save the University more than $200,000 per year by eliminating utility power factor penalties.

Plant Ops Summer Barbeque

All work and no play . . .

Plant Operations had its annual Summer Barbeque this week.  Just a little way to show appreciate to all of our hard working employees before school starts up again. 

 

We had a great turn out this year.  With our Associate Directors hard at work at the grills they could barely keep up with the hungry mob. 

Serving up hot dogs, hamburgers and veggie burgers, Cory along with the admins and a few other helpers made sure everyone got enough to eat.

 

Dennis and the Electronics Shop made sure we had some great tunes and Events set us up with tents for the food and lots of seating in the shade.

 

Josh and the Waste Management crew set us up with recycling centers



Thanks to John Atkins and Terry Erickson for organizing this event for us.  Special thanks to Nate Miles and his staff for working hard to set everything up to we could all play for a couple hours. 

It looks like everyone had a real good time.

For more pictures from the Plant Operations BBQ check us out on facebook