Building Manager

Program Description

The Compass House Women’s Shelter is a 90-bed, 24/7 emergency shelter for employable or employed general population homeless women. Comprehensive services include case management, occupational therapy, workforce development services, and housing placement assistance.

Overall Responsibilities

Under the general direction of the Program Director, and the Assistant Director and/or Director of Facilities, the Building Manager is responsible for hands-on involvement and direction of the custodial staff in performing all repair and maintenance work in the interior and, as needed, the exterior of the building, ensuring a safe, clean, sanitary, and code-compliant facility for clients and staff; coordinating the performance and completion of any capital improvement projects with the appropriate staff.

Building Manager - Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Supervises, directs, demonstrates for, and works with the custodial staff and facilities team members to perform daily tasks in response to work requests from staff and clients.
• Provides on-site training to custodial staff to enable them to properly perform the myriad of work to be completed.
• Ensures that staff maintain the conditions on the exterior of the building.
• Captures the coordination of the completion of all the work to be done in the shelter in anticipation of thorough inspections.
• Oversees the proper functioning of the building’s boiler, ensuring that any needed repairs are completed as quickly as possible and that 6-month inspections are performed and recorded.
• Maintains the use of the technical contracts that have been issued for selected repair and maintenance work, utilizing these when emergencies occur, especially plumbing and electrical situations.
• Ensures that any repair work being done by outside contractors is monitored by shelter staff and inspected prior to the work being accepted and processed for payment.
• Prepares requisitions for supplies and equipment and maintains an adequate inventory so staff can have needed goods and materials to perform the requested work.
• Routinely checks all areas of the shelter to prevent the issuance of any violations from staff from any city, or state agencies.
• Completes corrective action plans for all building/maintenance inspection citations issued against the shelter.

Physical Activities

While performing the duties of this position, the Building Manager must be able to walk between the 6 floors of the facility in order to tend to building needs. The Building Manager also walks the exterior of the facility to ensure that a proper appearance is being maintained. Furthermore, the Building Manager must stand to talk to staff, sit for extended periods of time at the computer, bend, reach or squat to get records from the files or when addressing building needs, climb and work from ladders of 10 to 12 feet in height, and lift a minimum of 30lbs.

Education & Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of four (4) years of progressively responsible experience working in building maintenance, repair, and management, including at least one (1) year experience supervising maintenance or custodial workers, or
• Associate’s degree with a minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience including two (2) years’ experience supervising maintenance or custodial workers, or
• High School Diploma or equivalent and a minimum of six (6) years of progressively responsible experience, including three (3) years’ experience supervising maintenance or custodial workers

Bilingual or multilingual a plus.

Certificates and Credentials

• A Fire Guard certification-F-02 or Fire Safety Coordinator F-80,
• Certificate of Fitness for Standpipe/Sprinkler Maintenance, S-12 and S-13, S95, P99, OSHA 10 AND OSHA 30

Preferred Skills

• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to manage and motivate staff to accomplish stated program goals and objectives while developing their individual and group skills.
• Team building: Ability to develop and foster, through demonstration, a team spirit, enabling staff to overcome the challenges of providing needed services to the client population.
• Communication: Excellent oral, writing, and listening skills are a must.
• Organizational: The ability to work well within a highly pressurized, deadline environment, while meeting the short- and long-term mandates of the program.
• Interpersonal: An ability to interface with clients as well as all levels of staff.
• Computer: Knowledge of case management software as well as proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite

Project Renewal is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Its long-standing policy has been to embrace the equality of opportunity for all employees and applicants without regard to actual or perceived race, color, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, religion or creed, gender (see separately issued Gender Discrimination policy for more detail), physical or mental disability, age (18 and over), military status, arrest record, marital status, domestic partnership status, genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic, sexual orientation, status as a victim or witness of domestic violence, sex offenses or stalking, unemployment status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws.