Oversees and coordinates all aspects of school facilities and grounds, maintaining conditions that support school and community use of the school physical plant. Provides leadership, support, and supervision to custodial and grounds staff, encouraging teamwork, ensuring equitable and appropriate work assignments, and providing adequate and timely supplies, materials, equipment, and training. Maximizes the use of district personnel and resources by identifying maintenance, repair, and improvement projects that can be safely and effectively completed in-house. Obtains competitive pricing and seeks the best value for repairs, supplies, materials, equipment, contracted services, and other outside work, while considering cost, quality, reliability, and the long term needs of the District. Coordinates and oversees outside contractors when work requires specialized expertise, licensing, equipment, or additional capacity.
Responsibilities include:
Works with the Administrative team to plan, budget and communicate maintenance activities, critical issues and preventive maintenance plans for buildings, facilities and mechanical systems. Responsible for preparing and managing custodial, building maintenance and capital project budgets Develops and carries out short term and long term operating and budget plans for building maintenance and upkeep. Participate in the formulation of School District policies with regard to the use and maintenance of buildings, facilities and mechanical systems, Directly assist the Superintendent and/or Finance Director in a confidential capacity. This will include confidential involvement in collective bargaining strategy with respect to custodial and maintenance staff; as well as confidential involvement in personnel matters involving such staff. Supervises and evaluates custodial and grounds staff. This includes: Works with building principals to develop work assignments and building maintenance needs; Plans, assigns schedules and oversees all custodial maintenance and repair work, maintaining a high standard of safety, cleanliness and efficiency; Assigns overtime according to applicable collective bargaining agreements and state and federal law; Schedules substitutes and vacation/sick time coverage; Monitors and approves time records of custodians for salary payments; Completing performance evaluations on a regular basis, and also managing the discipline process. Responsible for ensuring security and safety systems/procedures are intact, operational and followed. Maintains an inventory and recommends purchase of suitable supplies, tools and equipment. Inspects each building on a regular basis and confers with Principals and Director of Finance regarding custodial work and maintenance Oversees the use of building facilities during non-school hours by school-related and non-school related organizations. Assists and makes recommendations to the Superintendent on matters of building repair, renovation, upgrades and other major building and facilities projects Maintenance includes hands-on routine and troubleshooting work on roof-top units (most with cooling, some with energy recovery), exhaust fans, boilers, pumps, and a variety of other systems and equipment. Management of major maintenance and repair will be done by service contractors under the responsibility of this position. Available for emergency situations - evenings, weekends and holidays Manages all facilities related documentation, scans and indexes all appropriate documents. Participates with planning and implementing school security activity. Advocates for and documents facilities master planning and short range improvements. Maintains excellent relationships with various Town Employees such as Fire and Police Department, Building Inspectors, etc. Performs a variety of related duties and assignments.
