Facilities Manager - Independence Academy
About The Position
This role oversees all aspects of facilities management, including maintenance, custodial services, and repairs. The Facilities Manager is responsible for maintaining accurate records, coordinating with the corporate office on repairs and information updates, and reviewing contractual agreements and warranties. The position also involves managing building repair and maintenance activities, conducting regular inspections for needed repairs, and ensuring cleaning company meets contractual obligations. Additionally, the role ensures operational readiness of copier equipment, manages audio/visual needs, maintains phones and radios, and coordinates end-of-year locker cleanup and maintenance. The Facilities Manager also arranges transportation for school trips, schedules fire drills, assists with campus control and security, and maintains HVAC, key, and alarm systems. Responsibilities extend to confirming fire evacuation routes, coordinating facility and custodial needs for scheduled events, maintaining timelines for school opening, and overseeing the daily opening and closing of facilities. The role determines equipment obsolescence, sets maintenance priorities, develops preventive maintenance programs and emergency repair systems, and devises strategies to reduce vandalism, theft, and arson, while safeguarding school property and maintaining security procedures. The Facilities Manager also inspects buildings and grounds, conducts fire and tornado drills, manages the raising and lowering of the national flag, supervises custodial services, and collaborates with local police on security matters. Finally, the role assists in coordinating transportation, custodial, cafeteria, and other support services.
Requirements
- High School Diploma, completion of GED or equivalent courses preferred
- Previous experience preferred
Responsibilities
- Oversees facilities (including maintenance and custodial and repair work)
- Maintains accurate records for room use and class loads
- Meets with corporate office to ensure that facilities information is up to date and repairs are being made as needed
- Review all contractual agreements and warranties to ensure appropriate operation of all machinery
- Coordinates building repair and maintenance activities
- Examines building on a regular basis for needed repairs and maintenance
- Meet with cleaning company to ensure that all contractual obligations and expectations are being met
- Ensures copier equipment is in working order and paper supply is sufficient at all times
- Schedule required maintenance meetings as necessary
- Process audio/visual needs and distribute materials as needed
- Maintain phones and radios
- Arrange for locker cleanup and maintenance/repair at end of year
- Arranges for transportation for school trips
- Schedule required fire drills with fire department
- Assist in development and administrating practices dealing with campus control and security
- Maintenance of HVAC system
- Maintain Key inventory
- Maintain Alarm System
- Confirm fire evacuation routes throughout entire facility
- Review Master Calendar on a regular basis to accommodate facility and custodial needs for scheduled events
- Coordinate with cleaning crew and/or custodian to ensure facility cleanup after all school events
- Maintain timeline for summer regarding school opening
- Responsible for overseeing the daily opening and closing of school facilities
- Determine obsolescence of equip after conferring with corporate office
- Determines maintenance priorities and sequence of work
- Develops a program of preventive maintenance
- Develops emergency repair systems
- Devises programs aimed at reducing vandalism, theft and arson
- Devise system of safeguarding school owned property
- Maintains system for locking, checking and safe-guarding facility
- Maintains routine security procedures.
- Inspects buildings and grounds
- Provides for annual fire and tornado drills and keeps log of same.
- Provides for raising and lowering national flag
- Supervises custodial services
- Works cooperatively with local police on security matters
- Assists in coordinating transportation, custodial, cafeteria and other support services
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
