Guy Perron will remain in the same building but he now has a different office.

And a new job.

Perron, a volunteer assistant for the University of Maine men’s hockey team this past season, has been named the head coach of the women’s hockey team.

Perron will replace Rick Filighera, who compiled an 86-103-18 record in his seven seasons but didn’t have his contract renewed.

Perron had been the interim women’s coach for the past two and a half months.

“I’m extremely excited about it. It will be a good challenge. I’m looking forward to it. It’ll be a great opportunity for me and for the women’s program to get together and move forward,” said the 38-year-old Perron. “My family is also excited about it. We won’t have to move.”

Perron’s wife, Renee (Haney) is a Bangor native and they have two children: 5-year-old Grace and 11-month-old Jack.

He believes his contract is a one-year deal and he preferred not to disclose the financial terms.

Perron, a native of Laval, Quebec, played at Maine for four years and served as a captain his last two seasons. He tallied 62 goals and 84 assists in 136 career games and, when he graduated in 1990, he was the school’s seventh-leading all-time scorer. He helped Maine earn four straight NCAA Tournament berths.

He has served three stints as an assistant at Maine (1991-92, 1994-95 and last season) and was also an assistant at Dartmouth College from 1995-1997.

He was the head coach at Bangor High School for two years, going 20-21 and being named the Class A coach of the year his first season. He was the head coach of the North American (Junior) Hockey League’s Chicago Freeze from 1997-2003, compiling a 167-150-19.

He said the women’s hockey program has had a “good journey” over the last six seasons but he intends to take them to the next level.

Maine has gone 24-31-8 the past two years and was eliminated in the Hockey East semifinals.

“They’ve invested a lot of money in the program. The ultimate goal is to win and we’ve got to give the women an opportunity to perform at their best. Hopefully, we can create that environment,” said Perron. “Maine’s athletic tradition has come so far the last two or three years, especially this past year. Look at how many teams performed well and how many made it to the NCAA Tournament. The women’s program can certainly follow the other programs within the university.”

He said coaching women will be different “but hockey is hockey. The systems will be the same. We’ll need to have good communication and it will require a lot of patience from both sides. I expect to learn as much from them as they’ll learn from me. It’s important to get the program to the next level and that’s certainly what we’re planning to do.”

He hopes to build his teams around speed.

“We’ll be pretty quick and we’ll play solid defense,” said Perron, who is currently recruiting.

He will scour North America looking for players, including Maine.

“We need to look into our own back yard. I believe we have some good players in Maine and we want to target them as much as we can. We’re going to open up recruiting areas and try to get the best players we can so we can compete against the best,” said Perron.

He will begin looking for an assistant coach and a volunteer assistant next week.

Perron said he is grateful to athletic director Patrick Nero, the search committee and the members of the athletic department for selecting him and he intends to work with other coaches within the department.

“I’m hoping to learn from them,” said Perron.

Nero said Perron brings a “wealth of experience” to the program and that will be extremely beneficial.