Maintenance Supervisor

Job Summary

Brewton City Schools Maintenance Supervisor

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Directly supervises employees. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Examines school buildings on a regular basis for needed repairs and maintenance.
• Estimates cost of repair projects in terms of labor, material and overhead.
• Assigns and supervises crews of craftspeople and general labor for maintenance work.
• Monitors work order entries for timely completion.
• Requisitions tools, equipment, and supplies.
• Lays out and inspects completed work for conformance to blueprints, specifications, and standards.
• Develops systems for dealing with emergency repair problems. Maintains ability to respond after hours and weekends.
• Prepares reports on costs of work done, materials used, labor expended.
• Orders materials and makes recommendations of supplies and equipment for purchase.
• Keeps expenditures within budget and/or seeks approval for non-budgetary items.
• Maintains personnel and other reports as required.
• Recruits, interviews and evaluates all craftspeople necessary to the maintenance program.
• Studies production schedules and estimates worker hour requirements for job completion.
• Interprets policies to workers and enforces safety regulations.
• Establishes or adjusts work procedures to meet system schedules.
• Seeks approval for overtime for maintenance staff.
• Manage groundkeepers who handle daily tasks like mowing, edging, trimming, and debris removal.
• Maintains an inventory system for maintenance and HVAC units.
• Assists the Capital Planner with ground-level data and evaluate the physical health of the school infrastructure.
• Coordinates and maintains resources related to the hiring of contractors to perform certain maintenance or repair services.
• Coordinates activities with architects, contractors, and state agencies as necessary.
• Follows bid laws related to contracts and purchases.
• Follows requirements of the Alabama Division of Construction Management, State Building Codes, Fire Code Requirements, and other regulation compliance and/or laws related to the State of Alabama.
• Supports the Transportation Supervisor with keeping buses and fleet vehicles safe, mechanical systems operational, and facilities compliant with state and federal laws.
• Comply to travel to out of town conferences, training, or certificate renewal classes if necessary.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of a High School Diploma or equivalent; three years of related experience and/or training.
• Maintains any job related certificates which might include Asbestos, HVAC, CPR, and Safety training.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals and blueprints. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of students, teachers, parents or employees of the board.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

REASONING ABILITY:

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

• Valid Alabama drivers license.
• Valid CDL (commercial drivers license to drive a school bus)

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit and climb or balance.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works in outside weather conditions and is frequently exposed to extreme cold and extreme heat. The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock, and vibration. Work odd hours as required.
• The noise level in the work environment is frequently very loud.

Evaluation:

Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with the provisions of the Board's policy on evaluation of personnel.

**The Brewton City Board of Education is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, age, sex, handicap, marital status, or status as a disabled veteran.