Upstate Medical University names Lotkowictz physical plant director

SYRACUSE — Upstate Medical University announced it has appointed Robert Lotkowictz, director of physical plant, succeeding Gary Kittel, who has retired.

As director of physical plant, Lotkowictz is responsible for the operation and maintenance of Upstate Medical’s downtown Syracuse campus, including 27 buildings, covering more than 3.5 million square feet. The position also supervises the academic health-care provider’s departments of physical plant and records storage.

For the past five years, Lotkowictz was director of municipal operations for the village of Skaneateles, according to an Upstate Medical news release. He was responsible for the daily activities of all village operations, including the public works, wastewater-treatment operations, municipal electric, and water plant, among others.

Lotkowictz has also held facility management positions with Welch Allyn, Carrier Corp., and Cornell University. His responsibilities for Welch Allyn and Carrier included management and development of some of the companies’ international facilities, according to the release. At Cornell, Lotkowictz developed and administered capital plans for the university’s four statutory colleges and coordinated capital construction with the SUNY Construction Fund.

Lotkowictz holds an M.B.A. from the University of Maryland (2005), where he also earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering. He also has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Cornell.

A licensed professional engineer, Lotkowictz resides in Skaneateles.

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