Building Equipment Supervisor - Aviation Department

About the role

The Aviation Department has a vacancy for a Building Equipment Supervisor position. This role supervises, assigns, directs, and inspects the work of crew leaders and team members in installing, maintaining, and repairing HVAC and other commercial mechanical systems. The Facilities & Services (F&S) Division ensures that airport buildings, equipment, and grounds are safe, clean, efficient, and user friendly. Within F&S, the Mechanical Maintenance Section manages mission critical systems, such as HVAC, plumbing, pumping stations, central plants, passenger boarding bridges (PBBs), and fire/life safety infrastructure, supporting PHX's 24/7 operations and superior passenger experience.

Responsibilities

• Project management.
• Creating weekly work plans.
• Budget development and management.
• Contract development and management.
• Operating electronic communications devices.
• Creating electronic reports using MS Word and Excel.
• Coinciding work with other department work sections.
• Monitoring and supporting preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Conducting preliminary surveys of proposed projects including blueprint evaluation, costing, and material procurement.

Benefits

• A comprehensive benefits package is offered which includes:
• - Traditional pension with employer and employee contributions, click here for more details: Pension Information
• - 401(a) and 457 plans with employer contributions
• - Choice of generous medical HMO, PPO, or HSA/HDHP plans
• - Medical enrollment includes a monthly $150 City contribution to a Post-Employment Health Plan
• - Wellness incentive of up to $720 annually
• - Dental, vision, and life insurance options
• - Employer paid long-term disability
• - Free Bus/light rail pass
• - Tuition reimbursement program up to $6,500 per year
• - Paid time off includes 13.5 paid holidays, 12 vacation days, and 15 sick days and personal leave days
• - Paid Parental Leave for eligible employees up to 480 hours (12 weeks) of paid leave for the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child during a 12-month period
• - Federal Student Loan Forgiveness offered through Savi

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications: Three years of supervisory experience in the operation and maintenance of modern refrigeration and heating equipment systems. Other combinations of experience and education that meet the minimum requirements may be substituted.
• Preferred qualifications: Three years of experience with/in project management, contract management, working with large tonnage central plant O&M, working with BAS, JCI, and Alerton, developing and managing preventive and predictive maintenance programs, experience with fire and life safety systems, experience with automatic gate service and repairs, experience with automatic door service and repair, experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.), experience servicing and repairing pump systems (domestic water/ sewer), experience with air compressors and compressed air systems (pneumatics), experience operating Building Automation Systems (BAS) relating to HVAC systems, preferably Johnson Controls, Andover's Continuum, and/or Trane Building Automation Systems.

Recruitment dates

Recruitment closes July 21, 2026. All materials must be received by 11:59 p.m. on this date. This is a position-based recruitment and will not result in any ongoing eligibility list. This recruitment and any selection processes resulting from this recruitment may be used to fill other related vacancies within the organization now or in the near future.

How to apply

To apply, please complete the required information online and attach, as one document, your cover letter and resume. Include your experience as it relates to the qualifications stated above. Only the highest qualified may be posted to the eligible to hire list. The results of the resume screening process will be sent to your primary email address.

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