Logistics Support

Minimum Education and Experience Required
Associate degree and three years of related, demonstrated facilities management experience, or a combination of education and relevant experience.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required
• Basic mechanical skills and an aptitude to work with tools. Ability to work in an environment with machinery and other complex safety concerns, maintaining a “safety first” mindset. A basic understanding of vehicle mechanics, preferred.
• Working knowledge of applications such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc. Experience with or ability to learn University applications including iProcurement, Sunflower (inventory), etc.
• Ability to adapt to new technologies and processes, as well as identify needs for process improvements.
• Ability to coordinate and manage multiple projects with competing priorities, meet deadlines and project plans with short-and long-term deadlines.
• Interpersonal skills, mature judgment required to interact effectively with a broad range of people, both individually and collectively. Strong customer service orientation and ability to interact with a diverse group of people.
• Ability to communicate with others and to assimilate and understand information in a manner consistent with the essential job functions.
• Ability to keep sensitive information strictly confidential at all times.
• Develop creative solutions to department and community issues; work with appropriate personnel from records, support services or other units to implement ideas.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Able and willing to follow instructions; attention to detail and accuracy required.
• Effective oral and written communication skills, including listening skills.
• Desire to learn, accept and promote the Department’s Core Values.
• Knowledge of University policies and procedures preferred.
• Proven history of dependability and reliability, including attendance.
• Flexibility and calmness in managing a large work volume with minimal supervision under tight deadlines and sometimes in pressure situations.

Physical Requirements
• Possess and maintain the physical condition appropriate to the performance of assigned duties and responsibilities which may include sitting or standing for extended periods of time, sometimes in inclement weather conditions.
• Frequently stand/walk, sit at a desk. Perform desk-based computer tasks.
• Occasionally climb (ladders, scaffolds, other), twist/bend/stoop/squat, reach/work above shoulders, grasp lightly/fine manipulations, use a telephone, write by hand. Lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh 20+ pounds.
• Occasionally kneel/crawl, grasp forcefully, short/file paperwork or parts, lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh over 40 pounds.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a valid California non-commercial class driver’s license and drive day or night. Must be able to operate department vehicles, including driving and maneuvering vehicles towing trailers.

Working Conditions
• Requires 24-hour response availability seven days per week for emergency situations.
• May be exposed to noise > 80dB TWA.
• May be working at heights 4-10ft.
• All personnel working for the department are responsible for providing public safety services to the community. Personnel will be trained to perform duties outside their normal day-to-day responsibilities, such as dispatching and/or emergency call taking and/or special events logistics support, so they are able to provide support during emergencies and special events. Training includes familiarity with the Incident Command System.

Work Standards
• Must comply with the California Vehicle Code and Stanford University requirements when operating University-owned vehicles
• Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.
• Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety; communicates safety concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned.
• Subject to and expected to employ with all applicable University and department policies and procedures, including but not limited to the personnel policies, and other policies found in the University’s Administrative Guide and Public Safety General Orders.

Special Requirements
• Applicant must pass a complete background investigation including a search of local, state, and national files for criminal history.
• Must be able and willing to respond to and work large-scale special events as well as unplanned critical incidents, sometimes with little advance notice.
• All members of the Stanford Department of Public Safety are considered essential or required University personnel and are expected to respond to campus during a major emergency to assist the department with the management and mitigation of the emergency.
• As a member of a police department, the individual in this role will be a part of the department’s emergency response and special events team, which will require the incumbent to work nights and weekends, sometimes with little advance notice, as well as some holidays. This position is subject to shift work and shift adjustments, including being assigned to non-traditional work hours and days as an on-going assignment.

Selection Process (specific order of the process is subject to change)

• Application
• Personal History Questionnaire (PHQ)
• Interview with Department and University personnel
• Background investigation
• Personal Interview with the Director of Public Safety

* Stanford Department of Public Safety does not pay the candidate for travel expenses associated with testing / interviewing, unless otherwise indicated by the department at the time of call for interview.
*Stanford University is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, physical or mental disability, or sexual orientation.