Building Manager

Program Description

Canopy House provides 171 emergency shelter beds for homeless women diagnosed with mental illness and/or substance use disorders. Our comprehensive services include case management, individual and group counseling, recreational activities, occupational therapy, mental health services and housing placement assistance.

Overall Responsibilities

Under the general direction of the Program Director, and the Assistant Director and/or Director of Facilities with latitude for independent action and decision making, 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 that all building equipment is functioning properly to provide 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: performs related work.

Routine Duties

• 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
• Responsible for handling small repairs in the facility
• Coordinates the completion of all the work to be done in the facility in anticipation of thorough inspections
• Oversee the proper functioning of the building’s boiler, ensuring that any needed repairs are completed as quickly as possible and that all inspections are performed and recorded
• Maintains an adequate inventory of supplies and equipment to ensure staff have the needed goods and materials to perform the requested work
• Routinely checks all areas of the facility to prevent the issuance of any violations by staff from any city or state agencies
• Completes corrective action plans for all building/maintenance inspection citations issued against the facility
• Available to respond to emergencies on a 24/7/365 basis, especially after normal work hours, weekends, and holidays

Physical Demands

• Walks between the six floors of the facility to meet building needs
• Walks the exterior of the facility to ensure that a proper appearance is being maintained
• Stands to talk to staff
• Sits for extended periods of time at the computer
• Bends, reaches, or squats to get records from the files or when addressing building needs
• Climbs and works from ladders of 10 to 12 feet in height
• Lifts a minimum of 30 lbs

Education And Experience Requirements

• Associate’s degree with a minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience, including two (2) years of 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

• P99- Con Low PSI Oil Burn
• S12- City Wide Sprinkler systems
• S13- City Wide Standpipe System
• S95- Supervision of Fire Alarm Systems
• F01- City Wide Fire Guard for Impairment

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, team spirit, enabling staff to overcome the challenges of providing services needed to a special 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 and work order systems

Benefits

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.