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Facility Services

Facility Services handles maintenance, landscaping, custodial, energy, water, trash and recycling across 13.0 million square feet in the educational and general buildings on the Columbia campus. The Facilities Management Control team closed out over 23,000 work orders in 2022-23 and takes an average of 48 calls per day. See more of what falls under this team's mission work.

Leadership

For all issues that involve our group (maintenance, custodial, landscaping, emergency issue), please use the Submit a Request form or call our Facilities Management Control at 803-777-4217.

Jason Lambert, PE, SE, CEFP | Associate Vice President of Facility Services

Jason has spent over 24 years working in higher education facilities, including as the senior director of facilities at the University of Georgia, director of facilities at UT Health San Antonio and manager of athletic operations at the University of Wyoming. Here at USC, he leads a team of over 250 talented and driven technicians overseeing all aspects of campus maintenance, infrastructure construction, utility production, landscaping, custodial services, waste and recycling processing and minor renovations,. As a professional and structural engineer, he also worked as a consulting engineer for a large regional firm in the Pacific Northwest, helping rejuvenate a historical warehouse district at UW Tacoma, constructed nearly two dozen K-12 schools, and functioned as the campus engineer for two regional health care systems. Jason earned his bachelor’s in architectural engineering at the University of Wyoming, his master's in Project Management at Colorado State University and a graduate certificate of Public Administration at Valdosta State University.

Zach Schiff, PE | Director of Facilities Engineering Support

Schiff is a licensed engineer with extensive experience in facility engineering and maintenance who has successfully led large-scale construction projects and multi-skilled teams in both the public and private sectors. His career includes roles at the University of Georgia, Caterpillar, Michelin and University of South Carolina Housing. A proud Air Force veteran, he holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and master’s degrees in business administration from USC and engineering management from the Air Force Institute of Technology. Outside of work, Schiff, his wife Caroline (alumna) and their three children enjoy soccer, wakeboarding and cheering on the Gamecocks.

Justin Shinta, MBA, FMP, PMP | Director of Special Projects and Initiatives

Shinta has worked on a wide range of construction management related projects and facility maintenance initiatives throughout his career, including eight years total at Santee Cooper, Dominion Energy and Lowes Foods. Prior to that, he spent eight years in the U.S. Army before attending the military veterans program at The Citadel, where he received his bachelor’s in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He earned his master's in Business Administration at Clemson in 2019 and is a certified Facilities Maintenance Professional. A native of Charleston, he is married Ashley and has two kids. He spends his free time watching sports, playing in the yard, tinkering on house projects and coaching his son’s baseball team.

Jason Stock | Assistant Director of Facillities Infrastructure Construction

Stock is an accomplished Senior Project and Operations Manager with more than 23 years of progressive leadership experience spanning facilities, infrastructure and military operations. Prior to his civilian career, he served honorably in the United States Air Force, where he managed large-scale infrastructure programs, emergency management operations and workforce development initiatives across global installations. Stock holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Management, has received a Google Project Management certification and is a licensed commercial Drone Pilot.

Quinton Bolin | Assistant Director, Energy Plants

Dale Branham | Assistant Director, Maintenance Services

Leroy Sims | Assistant Director, Custodial Services

Thatcher Hurt | Assistant Director, Building Services

Troy Nelson | Assistant Director, Energy Management

Norm Stewart | Assistant Director, Landscape and Waste & Recycling Services

Noah Ray

Ray carries on a family tradition of supporting higher education through maintaining facilities and infrastructure. Ray proudly served the University of Georgia for 22 inconsecutive years of service, beginning his career at an entry level position and responding to opportunities to further serve the facilities management mission with increased responsibility and commitment. A lifelong Gamecock at heart, the Spartanburg-native Ray returns to the great state of South Carolina with his wife of 31 years and two cats. Ray is constantly in pursuit and has no time to spare.

Robin Sleeper | Facilities Management Control Supervisor

Sleeper earned her bachelor’s degree in business management at SNHU. After having done so, she transitioned from retail management to a position within Facilities at UNH. Upon relocating to South Carolina four years ago, she joined the USC Facilities Management Control center where she was promoted to supervisor last year. Having experience with asset management and preventive maintenance, she served as SME for a recent facilities software implementation and trainings. Self-appointed facilities cheerleader, Sleeper uses her graphic design skills to coordinate a variety of fun annual gatherings for her co-workers.

The various Facility Services teams maintain the following:

400 acres of physical space
65 acres of turf
Nearly 7,000 trees from more than 80 varieties
189 miles in sidewalk
57 acres of roofing
28,400 miles of wires in buildings
14,500 miles of pipes in buildings
21 miles combined of underground electric wiring and steam, condensate and chilled water piping
720,000 square feet of window glass.

And it delivers 1.2 million gallons of water daily and 600 million pounds of steam yearly, part of approximately $28 million of cost to power, heat, cool and provide water across the Columbia campus.

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