Senior Manager- Facilities Maintenance

Overview

Are you a skilled leader with a passion for ensuring customers and employees have a great experience with clean and functional facilities and grounds?

Do you enjoy developing motivated teams to meet the needs of an innovative and growing organization? Consider joining Community Transit as a Senior Manager of Facilities Maintenance, where your leadership will make a real difference in the success of public transit.

We pride ourselves on exceptional transportation services and meticulously maintained facilities that support our community and employees.

Your leadership will ensure our buildings, grounds, and facilities operate at peak efficiency and aesthetics, meeting and exceeding industry standards.

Join us in upholding excellence and fostering a workplace where quality and innovation thrive.

As the Senior Manager of Facilities Maintenance, you will direct, plan, organize, and control the Agency's Facilities Maintenance Division.

You will consult and coordinate with the Chief Operating Officer on executing strategy to consistently achieve division and agency goals and provide excellent customer service.

You will direct strategic initiatives related to maintaining agency buildings, grounds, and facilities in a consistently high state of good repair for customers and employees.

You will create division policies and procedures; maintain positive employee and union relations; manage vendors, contractors, and service providers;

and implement performance standards.

Essential Duties

Direct, plan, organize, and evaluate the agency's Facility Maintenance strategy ensuring alignment with both short and long-term agency goals and initiatives.

Establish and implement division policies, processes, and performance standards while evaluating and mediating performance issues.

Employ the necessary solutions to achieve division operational excellence.

Conduct service quality and condition assessments to maintain agency buildings, grounds, and facilities in a state of good repair in support of customers and employees.

Administer documentation standards and processes to support a reliable review process and ensure facility maintenance quality.

Supervise management-level staff. Prioritize and assign work. Conduct performance evaluations. Make hiring, termination, and disciplinary recommendations.

Ensure staff is trained and offer professional development opportunities. Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion principles in all staff programs and activities.

Advise the Executive Leadership Team on Facilities Maintenance matters, recommending courses of action affecting maintenance of buildings, grounds, and facilities in a state of good repair.

Manage and facilitate ongoing agency-wide communication and coordination to ensure facilities meet the needs of customers and employees.

Provide informational presentations to Senior Management, Executive Staff, and Board members.

• Direct the development of the division's budget and business plan. Oversee allocation and expenditure of budgeted funds.
• Stay up to date on modern facilities maintenance methodologies and strategies, transportation industry practices, and agency operations.

Embrace continuous learning and process improvement.

Serve as a key adviser to the Chief Operating Officer, CEO, Executive Team, and Board on Facilities Maintenance strategies.

Develop and recommend policies and standards to implement agency goals.

• Develop agency requirements, evaluations and purchases of facility related services and equipment. Coordinate with other departments regarding those needs for services and equipment.
• Perform other duties of a similar nature or level as assigned.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Seven years of experience in facility, project, and / or construction management
• Five years of general supervisory and management experience in a facilities environment
• A Bachelor's degree in facility, project, construction and / or business management or a related field may be substituted for three years of the non-supervisory experience requirement.

An equivalent combination of education and experience to successfully perform the job duties is also accepted.

Knowledge Requirements

• Equipment maintenance practices, including preventive maintenance principles and practices.
• Effective business management techniques.
• Labor relations and contract administration.
• Local, State, and national building codes, regulations, and best practices of building trades.
• State and federal regulations regarding health and safety issues.
• Staff supervision.
• Strategic development concepts.
• Program development and administration.
• Project management.
• Budget management.

Skill Requirements

Fostering an inclusive workplace by valuing and leveraging diversity, equity, and inclusion to uphold Community Transit's Core Values and achieve the organization's vision and mission.

Inspiring and fostering team commitment, pride, and trust. Facilitating cooperation and motivating team members to accomplish group goals while treating others with courtesy, sensitivity, and respect.

• Oral, written and computer-based communications and presentations.
• Decision making and problem solving.
• Human Resources management. Supervision, direction, evaluation, and motivation of employees.
• Program design and management.
• Use of personal computers and software applications.
• Conflict resolution and working effectively with a diverse population.
• Providing leadership to multiple disciplines simultaneously.
• Project management.
• Analyzing, developing, and implementing policies and procedures.
• Skill in preparing and administering budgets.
• Skill in interpreting and applying applicable federal, state, and local rules and regulations.

Preferred Skills and Knowledge

Transit industry experience

Working Conditions

Hybrid telework is available, typically 2 days on site, 3 days remote (if requested). Work is performed in an office environment and requires the use of office equipment and technology.

You will be required to move throughout and between different office buildings and may need to complete tasks in noisy environments.

You may also be required to lift and carry materials up to 20 pounds occasionally and up to 10 pounds frequently.

Application and Selection Process :

• Only on-line applications accepted. Please include resume.
• Applicants for this job may be considered for other openings up to six months after the date this position is filled.
• Applicants who meet the minimum requirements may be scheduled for an interview as well as a variety of tests to demonstrate knowledge, and skills for the position.

The evaluation process may include interviews, background check, reference checks and various performance tests.

Salary will be negotiated based on skills and experience.

Employee Benefits :

Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance. Employees participate in the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) and have the option to enroll in the agency's deferred compensation plan.

In addition to WA Paid Sick Leave, employees in this position, accrue 24 days of Paid Time off (192 hours) in their first year and ten (10) paid holidays throughout the calendar year.

Full list of all benefits and details can be found here .

If you have a family member, or share the same living quarters of a current Community Transit employee, please let your Human Resources Recruiter know as your eligibility for this position will be affected.

Community Transit provides a tobacco-free and drug-free work environment. As a recipient of federal funds, Community Transit is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not unlawfully discriminate on an basis prohibited by Federal, State or Local law.

We value and encourage diversity in our workforce. EOE AA M / F / Vet / Disability. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, protected veteran status or disability.