Maintenance Supervisor; Marked Tree

Maintenance Supervisor (Marked Tree Campus) Arkansas State University-Newport

The Maintenance Supervisor is a hands-on supervisor who is accountable for the completion of preventative, predictive facilities maintenance operations. This position is also responsible for overseeing facilities repair, remodeling, and renovation projects. This position requires the demonstrated ability to work effectively with others while promoting a positive organizational culture by embodying the institutional values of community, diversity, innovation, integrity, student-centeredness and trust.

This position is governed by state and federal laws and institution policy.

• Provides oversight to contracted carpenters, electricians, plumbers, groundskeepers, maintenance repairmen and custodial staff.
• Interviews applicants and recommends the hiring, training, and performance evaluation of skilled workers such as carpenters, electricians, plumbers, groundskeepers, maintenance repairmen, and custodial staff.
• Participates in preventive maintenance activities and supervising structural repairs of buildings and grounds.
• Makes routine inspections of the heating, cooling, and electrical systems.
• Receives work orders and follows through to completion.
• Coordinates the work of employees and outside contractors, including requisitioning supplies and tools, maintains inventory, as needed, and reviews completed contracted work.
• Conducts on-site inspections to ensure quality of work, determines maintenance requirements, and complies with safety regulations.
• Monitors building and grounds for public safety and security and checks safety systems such as emergency lights, smoke alarms and fire extinguishers.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

The formal education equivalent of a high school diploma; plus five years of experience in one or more skilled trades, including one year supervising skilled and/or semi-skilled workers or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Knowledge of building and grounds maintenance techniques and equipment.
• Knowledge of inventory control techniques.
• Knowledge of state purchasing procedures.
• Knowledge of supervisory practices and procedures.
• Ability to operate, maintain, and perform repairs on various types of electrical and mechanical equipment.
• Ability to conduct on-site inspections to determine compliance of work with departmental standards and regulations.
• Ability to plan, organize, and oversee the work of skilled, and semi-skilled workers.
• Ability to maintain adequate supplies and inventory records.

Responsible for monitoring and security of all ASUN property and equipment.

Supervises janitorial staff as well the performance and delivery of services of contractors.

• Ability to interact effectively with students, faculty and staff.
• Ability to write reports, correspondence so others will understand.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from faculty or staff.
• The ability to speak clearly so others can understand your instruction.
• Ability to detect and correct grammatical and spelling errors in written correspondence.

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to prepare and interpret bar graphs.

Ability to solve practical problems and to deal with a variety of known variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

Under general direction of the Director of Physical Plant, working from policies and general directives. Occasionally refers specific cases to supervisor as clarification or interpretation of the organization's policy is required.

Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously. Considerable responsibility with regard to general assignments as well as the planning of time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work.

Performs work operations which permit frequent opportunity for decision-making of significant importance and also frequent opportunity for decision-making of major importance, either of which would affect the work operations of small organizational component as well as the organization as a whole.

Requires dealing with unpleasant, angry, or discourteous people. Must have the ability to respond in accordance with core values of the college.

Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

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