Role design and job descriptions for Office Park Managers: clear jobs in a small park team
A park team is small, so each person wears several hats. Writing down what each role owns, and where it hands over, stops gaps and arguments and shows people a way up.
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In a small park team, the helpdesk executive logs a call, the supervisor sends a technician, and the technician fixes it, but nobody has said who tells the tenant it is done. Roles are shared by habit. When a person leaves, those habits go with him and the park finds out which job nobody owned.
Written roles do not need to be long. One page each, in plain words, covering what the person does, what they decide, who they report to and what they hand on. For a team this size it is also the simplest way to show a ladder, so that a good helpdesk executive or technician can see where the next step lies.
How to set it up
1. List the jobs that must get done
Start from the work, not the titles: taking a call, sending a technician, closing the loop with the tenant, watching the power room, briefing vendor supervisors. Note where each task lands today.
2. Write one page per role
Cover purpose, daily tasks, decisions the person can take alone, who they escalate to and how they hand over. Use simple language that a joiner can read on his first day.
3. Mark the handover points
Show where a job passes from helpdesk to technician, technician to supervisor, and supervisor to manager. Add a closing step with the tenant for every complaint.
4. Draw the ladder
Place helpdesk executive, shift lead and assistant manager on one path, and technician, senior technician and engineer on another. Describe the skills for each step. See competency work for how to grade them.
5. Review with the team
Read each draft with the person who does the job and change what is wrong. Update when a system or tenant mix changes.
Check these first
Before changing anything, find out what is true today. These take an afternoon and use your own records.
- Ask three people to describe the same complaint from start to close and compare what they say.
- Check which tasks are done by someone whose title does not mention them.
- List roles where only one person knows how the work is done.
- Ask each team member what the next step in their path would be, and note blanks.
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Questions owners ask
One page is enough. Say what the role is for, the main tasks, what the person decides, whom they report to and how they hand over. Detail beyond that is rarely read and quickly out of date.
Their employer writes theirs, but you can give the vendor a post description for each site post, listing duties, conduct and who they report to on site. It sets expectations clearly for both sides.
Show that it protects them, by clarifying what is not their job and by opening a path upward. Write it with them, not for them, and do not use it as a stick.