HD24 - Establishing Job Classes In a Multi-trade Team Series

  • Published: 1994
  • Author: Department of Personnel and Training
  • Enabling Authority: House Joint Resolution 636 (Regular Session, 1993)

Executive Summary:
The 1993 General Assembly, in House Joint Resolution Number 636, requested the Department of Personnel and Training to study the feasibility of establishing and appropriately compensating positions in a Multi-trade Team series, including a Multi-trade Team Worker Senior and a Multi-trade Team Supervisor. The General Assembly further directed that the work of the Department of Personnel and Training include input from The College of William and Many, local governments, and private organizations.

In conducting the study, staff of the Department of Personnel and Training consulted the Human Resource Office of The College of William and May and other educational institutions and state agencies having buildings maintenance requirements similar to those of The College of William and Mary. Staff of the Department of Personnel and Training visited The College of William and Mary several times and interviewed the Director of Facilities Management, the Director of Operations in the Department of Facilities Management, Multi-trade Team supervisors, and members of all five Multi-trade Teams at the College. Finally, the study included a salary survey of public and private employers located in several regions of the Commonwealth.

The study led to the following findings:

1) work performed by certain members of the Multi-trade Teams at The College of William and Mary is distinct from that performed by employees in other job classes in the building trades occupational area, in that the work requires the application of skilled techniques in four building trades: electricity; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning; plumbing/steam fitting; and carpentry;

2) establishment of a new job class, Trades/Utilities Master Mechanic, is feasible to describe and compensate the multi-skilled work performed by specified members of Multi-trade Teams. (See Appendix A for class specification);

3) salary information indicates that the Trades/Utilities Master Mechanic job class should be assigned salary grade 9 ($21,932 - $33,486). (See Appendices B and C for salary survey data and list of survey respondents); and

4) there appears to be no requirement to establish a new class as Multi-trade Team Supervisor because an existing Buildings and Grounds Management job class (i.e., Buildings and Grounds Supervisor B, grade 10: $23,975 - $36,607) describes and appropriately compensates duties and responsibilities of leaders of Multi-trade Teams.

Accordingly, effective December 1, 1993, the Department of Personnel and Training will establish a new job class, Trades/Utilities Master Mechanic, which will be assigned salary grade 9. The College of William and Mary and other educational institutions and agencies will be authorized to assign positions to this new job class.