Job Details
Job Title: Area Maintenance Manager
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Job ID: 302857
About Us
Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.
About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.
Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
- Students are our top priority.
- We strive for excellence.
- We thrive on diversity.
- We celebrate collaboration.
- We champion innovation.
- We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
- We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
- We act ethically.
- We are responsible stewards.
Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.
Job Summary
Manage activities of a multi-craft team in providing maintenance and repair for buildings and related systems and facilities within an assigned campus area. Responsible for setting employee goals, assessing employee performance and providing feedback, and making pay recommendations. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: area maintenance staff, other facilities management and employees, project management, designers, engineers, vendors, contractors and customers. This position typically will advise and counsel: area maintenance staff, other facilities management and employees, project management, designers, engineers, vendors, contractors and customers. This position will supervise: maintenance staff.
Responsibilities
- Job Duty 1 - Coordinate customer service activities for assigned area to include service calls, performance of planned and preventative maintenance, major repair and renovation.
- Job Duty 2 - Assure the optimal operation of all building components and systems within assigned area.
- Job Duty 3 - Coordinate work requirements with other Facilities units, contractors/vendors and other outside resources.
- Job Duty 4 - Provide estimates and budgets for minor and major project work, maintenance contracts, reimbursable work requests, and campus events.
- Job Duty 5 - Coordinate acquisition of required materials.
- Job Duty 6 - Supervise personnel. Schedule and assign employees and related resources and evaluate work performance.
- Job Duty 7 - Participate in recruiting new employees; coach, counsel, train and monitor development of staff.
- Job Duty 8 - Perform other duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
Educational Requirements
Technical Diploma, Associate's Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
Other Required Qualifications
Valid Georgia Driver's License. Work environment involves exposure to potentially dangerous materials and situations requiring following extensive safety precautions. The job typically requires handling of average-weight objects up to 25 pounds, sitting or standing for long periods of time; accessing work areas from ladders, scaffolding, lifts, and bucket trucks to heights necessary to inspect the operation, installation, repair, and replacement of building components and systems. Job will require accessing and working in confined space areas; may require wearing a full-face respirator in accordance with GT campus policies and procedures. Position may require the ability to obtain a state issued purchasing card to procure materials and account for purchases using state purchasing card guidelines.
Required Experience
Six to eight years of job related experience
Preferred Qualifications
Preferred Educational Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management or related field
Candidate should be prepared to participate in a rotating on-call schedule, which includes being on call for one week each month.
Proposed Salary
$77,526.00 - $100,000.00
Salary will be commensurate with experience and education
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
SKILLS
This job requires advanced knowledge in construction and maintenance management, project management and supervision of craft personnel. Also required is a working knowledge of the operation and maintenance requirements for building structures and components and the use of basic and specialized computer applications.
Strong communication skills required, both written and verbal, with the ability to interact professionally, provide clear direction, and maintain effective working relationships.
USG Core Values
The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 25 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.
Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.
Other Information
- This is a supervisory position.
- This position will have financial responsibilities.
- This position will be required to drive.
- This role is considered a position of trust.
- This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).
- This position may travel
- This position does not require security clearance.
Location: Atlanta, GA
Background Check
Successful candidate must be able to pass a background check. Please visit https://usg.policystat.com/policy/19298143/latest/
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