Facilities Manager I

Job Summary

About the role

Manages custodial staff. Manages emergency procedures, building construction and maintenance, capital assets inventory, facilities budget and contracts, and building security.

Responsibilities

• Supervises maintenance, construction and engineering programs.
• Identifies current and future needs and problems.
• Authorizes and monitors expenditures within allocated budget.
• Supervises staff, which includes hiring, orienting, training, assigning and reviewing work performance, annual work performance appraisals, and discipline.
• Covers activities of staff and outside contractors.
• Safeguards scheduled maintenance, repair, and replacement of mechanical, electrical, HVAC, and other operational systems.
• Maintains compliance with applicable statutes, ordinances, fire and safety codes.
• Prepares and implements capital equipment and improvements plan.
• Revises and updates plan periodically in accordance with budget adjustment procedures.
• Serves on various Salt Lake County advisory, policy-making or review boards or committees.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in technical or industrial management, or other closely related field, plus two (2) years of related experience, of which one (1) year must have been supervisory; OR an equivalent combination of related education and experience. Education may not be substituted for the required supervisory experience.

Due to the nature of this position, the successful applicant must pass a required background check through fingerprinting and enrollment in the continuous RAP Back (Record of Arrest and Prosecution Back) program in accordance with current County Human Resources policy requirements.

Qualifications

Knowledge of Building systems
Building codes and industrial standards
Budgeting and inventory management
Personnel and project management
OSHA standards

Skills and Abilities

• Evaluate conditions
  Recognize hazards
  Communicate effectively orally and in writing
  Apply critical and analytical thinking

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements

• Requires occasional field work;
  May work in all types of weather.
  May require use of personal protective equipment.
  Requires occasional pushing and pulling up to 75 lb, climbing, balancing, bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, standing, walking.