Preventative Maintenance Shop Supervisor

Colorado State University•Fort Collins, CO

1d•$68,148 - $81,780•Onsite

About The Position

This position will close on 6/17 at 11:59 p.m. Please review required documents. Position Summary Facilities Management is entrusted with the development, care, maintenance, and operation of Colorado State University’s physical properties. Our purpose is to create and sustain environments that support CSU’s land-grant mission, fostering the success of students, faculty, and staff through world-class academic, research, and outreach programs. To learn more about this department, please visit our website. This position provides strategic leadership and supervision for a dedicated work unit, aligning day-to-day operations with the University and Facilities mission statements. The incumbent is responsible for the full lifecycle of unit management, from developing long-term business plans and fiscal accountability to conducting annual performance reviews and training needs assessments. In addition to leading and coordinating the team, this position will perform routine preventative maintenance and minor repair services of plumbing, electrical, mechanical, and structural components associated with the University ’s buildings. By effectively managing the shop’s budget and leveraging database programs to assess maintenance backlogs, the supervisor prioritizes a diverse workload that includes planned maintenance, emergency repairs, and revenue-generating construction projects. This position does supervise 12 FTE’s. Beyond administrative oversight, the role ensures the high-level technical integrity of university systems through a rigorous preventive maintenance program. This involves managing the repair and replacement of critical mechanical and structural components using advanced diagnostic tools such as vibration, thermographic, and ultrasonic analysis. The supervisor serves as the primary point of contact for building Proctors, taking full ownership of facility deficiencies and maintaining transparent communication regarding service outages to ensure minimal disruption to campus activities.

Requirements

Four (4) years of progressively responsible experience in the HVAC maintenance, service and repair industry.
A combination of related education, formalized apprenticeship program, and/or progressively responsible experience in the HVAC maintenance, service and repair industry equal to four (4) years.
Pre-employment Criminal Background Check (required for new hires)
Pre-employment Physical
Valid Driver’s License - CO
Regular Essential Services Designation
Shift Work
On-call Status - Must be available during University emergencies such as floods, fires, snow etc.)
May be required to work a rotating schedule to extend operational hours up to 12am.
May be required to work weekend shifts as necessary.
Work is in-person

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of and ability to plan mechanical and structural preventative maintenance.
Ability to act as a working supervisor.
Proven leadership skills and abilities including hiring, training, mentoring, performance management, delegation of tasks, etc.
Strong working knowledge of HVAC equipment, tools, and components.
Demonstrated ability to manage inventory and parts using IWMS.
Ability to determine short- and long-term goals for the employees and the shop.
Directly related state service experience.

Responsibilities

Position functions as Supervisor and provides leadership in the development, implementation and monitoring of long- and short-term work unit business goals consistent with University and Facilities Mission Statements, incorporates maintenance projections, fiscal accountability, individual program plans and the development of training needs assessment into a comprehensive business plan.
Conducts annual review evaluations and setting goals for individual employees on an annual basis, reviews goal semiannually to confirm adherence.
As a supervisor, position helps to define shop programs and provides day-to-day guidance to employees n the delivery of services for programs such as planned maintenance, breakdown and minor repairs, audits and service and construction work (revenue) by determining the priority of each service responsibility on a daily, weekly, monthly, and annual basis.
Uses established data base programs to assess maintenance backlog and project priorities as necessary.
Manages and performs scheduled cleaning and preventive maintenance, repair, or replacement of university mechanical and structural building components which include fans, belts, bearings, filters, coils, pumps, compressors, cooling towers, refrigeration /condenser systems, fume hood exhaust cabinets, vibration analysis, Thermographic analysis, ultrasonic analysis, oil analysis.
Provide a primary building site customer service contact for building Proctors.
Take ownership of deficiencies and see that building proctors are notified of scheduled and unscheduled outages.
Follow the project to completion, provide updates and assure that the systems are again operational. and the work area is restored back to an acceptable/original condition.