Salary: $95,000.00 - $110,000.00 Annually
Location : Clark County - Vancouver, WA
Job Type: Full Time - Permanent
Job Number:
Department: Dept. of Social and Health Services
Division: FTAA
Opening Date: 09/21/2026
Closing Date: 9/28/2026 11:59 PM Pacific

Description
The , is a new Department of Social and Health Services facility located in the Mt. Vista neighborhood of Vancouver, Washington. The campus is not yet open for patient services, creating a unique opportunity for an experienced facilities leader to help prepare a new behavioral health campus for future operations.

Until the campus opens, the facility will remain in a warm closure, with a limited number of employees maintaining the buildings, property, infrastructure, and assets. The campus will remain secured by construction fencing, contracted security patrols, and building alarm systems. During this period, the Facility Manager will be responsible for protecting the state's investment while preparing the campus, its systems, and its future facilities workforce for full operations.

As the Brockmann Campus Facility Manager, you will lead campus facilities operations and serve as the senior on-site authority for maintenance and operations. You will oversee infrastructure, life-safety systems, environmental systems, utilities, grounds, and facility readiness. As the campus transitions into service, your responsibilities will expand into supporting a 24/7 behavioral health environment where facility reliability directly affects patient safety, staff operations, and regulatory compliance.

Reporting to the Regional Operations Administrator for the , you will lead fire protection coordination, emergency preparedness, utilities, regulatory compliance, and relationships with local public-safety partners. You will also work closely with Capital Programs, Information Technology, campus leadership, and other agency partners to ensure infrastructure and operational planning support the successful opening and long-term operation of the campus.

This is an opportunity to do more than maintain an established facility. You will help build the facilities operation that will support a new campus, identifying the expertise, staffing capabilities, maintenance practices, and operational systems necessary for long-term success.
Some of what you will do
During your first 6-12 months, your focus will be on campus readiness you will:

• Learn the new campus infrastructure from the ground up, including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, heating and cooling, emergency power, life-safety, security, and other critical building systems.
• Assess the technical expertise and skilled-trade capabilities the facilities team will need to operate and maintain the campus as it transitions from warm closure to full operations.
• Identify workforce skill or knowledge gaps and help establish training, development, staffing, and operational strategies needed to support a 24/7 behavioral health facility.
• Become proficient with the computerized maintenance management system and establish effective preventive maintenance, work-order, asset-management, and service-request practices.

As the Facility Manager, you will also:

• Lead campus facilities operations - Direct maintenance and operations for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, heating and cooling, boilers, emergency power, life-safety systems, structural systems, grounds, and other critical infrastructure.
• Build a reliable maintenance operation - Establish preventive and predictive maintenance practices, operational standards, staffing priorities, and resource allocation to support the campus as it moves into full operation.
• Lead and develop the facilities workforce - Hire, supervise, coach, and develop multidisciplinary staff while building the technical knowledge and capabilities necessary to support complex institutional systems.
• Prepare the campus for operation and inspections - Lead facility readiness, regulatory compliance, emergency preparedness, inspection preparation, corrective actions, and coordination with regulatory and public-safety partners.
• Manage resources and long-term facility needs - Oversee facilities budgets, expenditures, asset information, lifecycle planning, and operational data used to support future budget and capital decisions.
• Partner on construction and capital planning - Serve as the facilities operations liaison for construction, renovations, system improvements, and capital projects while identifying risks and ensuring operational needs are incorporated into project decisions.
• Advise campus and agency leadership - Provide clear information about infrastructure performance, facility risks, emerging needs, mitigation strategies, and investments necessary for safe and reliable operations.

What We're Looking For:

• A minimum of nine years of progressively responsible experience in facility maintenance, facility management, institutional operations, or a closely related field. At least five years must be in a leadership, supervisory, or management capacity overseeing multidisciplinary technical teams or complex facility operations.
• Education/Experience Substitution: Relevant higher education-such as coursework or degrees in project management, construction management, engineering, business administration, information systems, or computer systems management will substitute for experience on a year-for-year basis.

Preferred Experience:

• Strong Computerized Maintenance Management System experience
• Personnel development
• Understand building systems, including life safety and emergency power and water quality

Questions? Please contact [email protected] and reference 07676.

Supplemental Information
Prior to a new hire, a background check including criminal record history may be conducted. Information from the background check will not necessarily preclude employment but will be considered in determining the applicant's suitability and competence to perform in the job. This announcement may be used to fill multiple vacancies. Employees driving on state business must have a valid driver's license. Employees driving a privately owned vehicle on state business must have liability insurance on the privately owned vehicle.



More than Just a Paycheck!
Employee benefits are not just about the kind of services you get, they are also about how much you may have to pay out of pocket. Washington State offers one of the most competitive benefits packages in the nation.

We understand that your life revolves around more than just your career. Like everyone, your first priority is ensuring that you and your family will maintain health and financial security. That's why choice is a key component of our benefits package. We have a selection of health and retirement plans, paid leave, staff training and other compensation benefits that you can mix and match to meet your current and future needs.

Read about our benefits:
The following information describes typical benefits available for full-time employees who are expected to work more than six months. Actual benefits may vary by appointment type or be prorated for other than full-time work (e.g. part-time); view the job posting for benefits details for job types other than full-time.

Note: If the position offers benefits which differ from the following, the job posting should include the specific benefits.

Insurance Benefits
Employees and their families are covered by medical (including vision), dental and basic life insurance. There are multiple medical plans with affordable monthly premiums that offer coverage throughout the state.

Staff are eligible to enroll each year in a medical flexible spending account which enables them to use tax-deferred dollars toward their health care expenses. Employees are also covered by basic life and long-term disability insurance, with the option to purchase additional coverage amounts.

To view premium rates, coverage choice in your area and how to enroll, please visit the Public Employees Benefits Board (PEBB) website. The Washington Wellness program from the Health Care Authority works with PEBB to support our workplace wellness programs.

Dependent care assistance allows the employee to save pre-tax dollars for a child or elder care expenses.

Other insurance coverage for auto, boat, home, and renter insurance is available through payroll deduction.

The Washington State Employee Assistance Program promotes the health and well-being of employees.

Retirement and Deferred Compensation
State Employees are members of the Washington Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS). New employees have the option of two employer contributed retirement programs. For additional information, check out the Department of Retirement Systems' web site.

Employees also have the ability to participate in the Deferred Compensation Program (DCP). This is a supplemental retirement savings program (similar to an IRA) that allows you control over the amount of pre-tax salary dollars you defer as well as the flexibility to choose between multiple investment options.

Social Security
All state employees are covered by the federal Social Security and Medicare systems. The state and the employee pay an equal amount into the system.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness
If you are employed by a government or not-for-profit organization, and meet the qualifying criteria, you may be eligible to receive student loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

Holidays
Full-time and part-time employees are entitled to paid holidays and one paid personal holiday per calendar year.

Note: Employees who are members of certain Unions may be entitled to additional personal leave day(s), please refer to position specific Collective Bargaining Agreements for more information.

Full-time employees who work full monthly schedules qualify for holiday compensation if they are employed before the holiday and are in pay status for at least 80 nonovertime hours during the month of the holiday; or for the entire work shift preceding the holiday.

Part-time employees who are in pay status during the month of the holiday qualify for the holiday on a pro-rata basis. Compensation for holidays (including personal holiday) will be proportionate to the number of hours in pay status in the month to that required for full-time employment, excluding all holiday hours. Pay status includes hours worked and time on paid leave.

Sick Leave
Full-time employees earn eight hours of sick leave per month. Overtime eligible employees who are in pay status for less than 80 hours per month, earn a monthly proportionate to the number of hours in pay status, in the month to that required for full-time employment. Overtime exempt employees who are in pay status for less than 80 hours per month do not earn a monthly accrual of sick leave.

Sick leave accruals for part-time employees will be proportionate to the number of hours in pay status, in the month to that required for full-time employment. Pay status includes hours worked, time on paid leave and paid holiday.

Vacation (Annual Leave)
Full-time employees accrue vacation leave at the rates specified in (1) or the applicable collective bargaining agreement (CBA). Full-time employees who are in pay status for less than 80 nonovertime hours in a month do not earn a monthly accrual of vacation leave.

Part-time employees accrue vacation leave hours in accordance with (1) or the applicable collective bargaining agreement (CBA) on a pro rata basis. Vacation leave accrual will be proportionate to the number of hours in pay status, in the month to that required for full-time employment.

Pay status includes hours worked, time on paid leave and paid holiday.

As provided in , an employer may authorize a lump-sum accrual of vacation leave or accelerate the vacation leave accrual rate to support the recruitment and/or retenti