Maintenance Manager

Location : Berea

Job Type : Full-Time

Division : Operations & Sustainability

Department : Facilities Management

Opening Date : 02 / 13 / 2025

FLSA : Exempt

Salary Grade : 12

Please note that references provided at the time of application for staff positions will not be contacted until the applicant has been offered the position.

Description :

Are you a seasoned Maintenance professional ready for a new challenge? Berea College is looking for a Maintenance Manager that oversees the College's maintenance team, including plumbing, carpentry, and preventive maintenance. Responsibilities include supervising daily operations, prioritizing and scheduling work orders, managing personnel, and ensuring productivity. The role involves analyzing CMMS data to improve safety, reliability, and service. It also requires setting an example for safe work practices. Regular hours are Monday-Friday, 7 : 30 AM - 4 : 30 PM, with occasional overtime and call-back duties.

Your Key Responsibilities :

• Perform root cause and investigate analysis of plumbing and carpentry trade problems and prepare and execute remediation plan.
• Acquire materials and tools needed to execute work orders.
• Coordinate planned and reactive work of the Maintenance team to assure safety and customer service goals and expectations are met.
• Assess workload and prioritize tasks, assign technicians daily, weekly, and monthly.
• Utilize and analyze data to track metrics and drive improvements to equipment and infrastructure maintenance reliability, safety, productivity and customer service.
• Strong leadership and communication skills to lead a diverse and fast paced maintenance team.
• Proactive leadership in regard to safety.
• Collaborative communication style to assure high levels of service and satisfaction from a large body of internal customers.
• Assure full utilization of CMMS to maintain accurate records of work performed by the team.
• Works with Administrative leadership to develop and meet budget.

What You'll Bring :

Strong organizational and people management skills required, as well as good interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization. A very strong focus on customer service and satisfaction is a must. A live by example, safety-first leadership approach is also a must. Flexibility and maturity to manage unexpected disruptions with a sense of calm urgency required. Understanding of preventive and predictive maintenance systems and best practices in maintenance and reliability excellence are desired. Must have the ability to prioritize work and develop schedules to ensure efficient utilization of college personnel and resources. Provide follow up inspections to ensure quality control remains at the highest level. Strong computer skills are a plus. Interaction with GIS system a plus.

Founded in 1855, Berea College is nationally recognized as the first coeducational and interracial college in the South. Berea has a longstanding commitment to interracial education and is one of the most racially diverse private liberal arts colleges in the United States. With an emphasis on service to Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls more than 1,500 students from 46 states and U.S. territories and more than 70 countries. Berea College admits students who are unable to afford tuition and provides all of them with a no-tuition promise, valued at more than $204,000. Berea's students excel in the College's supportive yet demanding academic environment, and most are the first in their families to attend college. As one of only nine federally recognized Work Colleges, all Berea students are expected to work 10-12 hours weekly in various positions across campus. Berea College is listed #20 in overall ranking in the U.S. by the Wall Street Journal / College Pulse college rankings, 2023. The Washington Monthly ranks Berea College #2 Best Liberal Arts College and #1 in Social Mobility, 2023. Money Magazine ranks Berea #20 Best Overall College and #10 for Best in the South, 2023. Berea College is also the only institution in Kentucky to receive the 5-Star Rating from Money Magazine, 2023.

Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available at

Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.

Berea College is always looking for talented, self-motivated individuals to join our team. If you think you are ready to be a part of an exciting team, then we encourage you to continue with this applicant friendly, online job application!

Berea College is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.

Our Benefits :

Berea College offers a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees and their families including health care, dental, vision, retirement, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability and an Employee Assistance Program. The benefit package also includes access to the for children of College Staff, ages 6 weeks to 6 years, Membership, Staff Development Funds and Tuition Reimbursement.

Eligible staff employees also receive paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave.

Part-time employees who work an average of 24 hours per week over the course of a year, receive benefits on a pro-rated basis.

To learn more details, visit our benefits page at

Our Unique Culture :

Berea College strives to be a place where people with various Christian interpretations, different religious traditions, and no religious traditions work together in support of

Over the past century, various leaders of the College have applied the College's inclusive scriptural foundation and spirit to their expanding world and welcomed those whose beliefs were consistent with the Christian gospel of impartial love. Therefore, Berea College today affirms its inclusive Christian tradition even as it respects the traditions of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus, as well as other faiths, and those holding no religious beliefs. We strive not to ignore our differences, but rather seek to understand each other honestly and respectfully, and together create a climate where anyone can openly discuss what they believe without fear of sanction. To that end, all persons who are willing to share in the spirit and the work of the Great Commitments as shaped by its preamble are welcome to study, to teach, and to work at Berea

Labor Supervision :

In support of Berea College's great commitments, staff and faculty serve as labor supervisors. Our fourth great commitment, The Dignity of Labor, promotes learning and serving in community through the student Labor Program, honoring the dignity and utility of all work, mental and manual, and taking pride in work well done. Student Labor Supervision includes scheduling, assigning, and approving student work, developing students' workplace acumen, and providing tangible work experience. To learn more about the labor program office please see the following link

Salary : $204,000