Building Supervisor I

About the role

Serves as a building supervisor in an elementary or special education school or in an administrative building; supervises custodial staff and participates in the full range of cleaning, maintenance, operation, and security activities; oversees custodial training program for assigned staff.

Responsibilities

• Plans, assigns, supervises, instructs, and assists assigned custodial staff.
• Sets performance level expectations for cleaning buildings, maintaining grounds, using equipment, materials, and supplies.
• Establishes work schedules.
• Ensures employees operate as an effective working unit.
• Affords assistance to school-based administrator in determining work schedules and approving leave.
• Counsels employees and resolves informal complaints and grievances through discussion.
• Reports on employees' work hours and performance.
• Makes daily inspections to ensure that prescribed standards are maintained with respect to plant equipment, property, and grounds.
• Requisitions and distributes equipment, materials, and supplies.
• Performs and/or ensures that preventive maintenance, adjustments, and minor repairs are performed.
• Supervises and participates in maintaining outside of building by removing snow and ice, mowing lawns, maintaining shrubbery, picking up paper and debris, removing and emptying containers of standing water.
• Ensures that proper safety and security precautions are observed.
• Affords assistance to school and community groups that use the building to provide adequate custodial services.
• Moves and transports furniture, equipment, boxed textbooks, and other supplies, manually or with mechanical assistance.
• To support performance evaluation: Completes performance evaluations, in conjunction with plant operations monitor, of lower-graded staff, with final approval by school-based administrator.
• Affords assistance to the plant operations monitor and school-based administrator in developing progressive disciplinary actions.
• To support hiring: Assists the school-based administrator with the hiring of all custodial staff by participating in selection advisory committees.
• Provides technical guidance on the custodial operation, to aid in the hiring process.
• Performs related duties as required or assigned.

Qualifications

• Any combination of education and experience equivalent to graduation from high school or possession of a General Equivalency Diploma (GED) certificate.
• Some experience in public building operations, in a custodial personnel oversight or supervision role.
• Must successfully complete the FCPS Custodial Certification Course prior to or within one (1) year of appointment.
• May be required to work an evening and/or night shift on a regular or rotating basis.
• Knowledge of custodial methods, equipment, procedures, and cleaning materials.
• Ability to train, assign, supervise, and inspect the work of assigned staff.
• Ability to understand and interpret written and verbal instructions.
• Ability to maintain records and prepare routine reports.
• Ability to recognize and report hazards and apply safe work methods.
• Ability to work cooperatively with employees, students, and the public.
• Ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing.

Major Duties/Essential Functions

Completes performance evaluations, in conjunction with plant operations monitor, of lower-graded staff, with final approval by school-based administrator.