What are the responsibilities and job description for the FACILITIES SURVEYOR - 04012025 - 66949 position at Human Services?
Job Information
State of Tennessee Job Information
Opening Date/Time
04/01/2025 12:00AM Central Time
Closing Date/Time
04/14/2025 11:59PM Central Time
Salary (Monthly)
$4,517.00 - $5,638.00
Salary (Annually)
$54,204.00 - $67,656.00
Job Type
Full-Time
City, State Location
Knoxville, TN
Department
Human Services
LOCATION OF (1) POSITION(S) TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, ADMINISTRATION DIVISON, KNOX COUNTY
For more information, please visit the link below:
https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/human-services/documents/HRC0013547_Facilities_Surveyor_Knox_41425.pdf
This is a hybrid position.
Qualifications
Education and Experience: Education equivalent to graduation from a standard high school and experience equivalent to substantial (five or more years of) increasingly responsible and skilled full-time building maintenance or construction work in one or more of the following areas: carpentry, electrical, plumbing, painting, masonry, boiler operation, heating-ventilating-air conditioning, or other related areas; qualifying full-time facilities maintenance or construction work or vocational-technical training may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis, to a maximum of two years.
Necessary Special Qualifications: A valid motor vehicle operator's license may be required for employment in some positions.
Examination Method: Education and Experience, 100%, for Preferred Service positions.
Overview
Summary: Under general supervision, is responsible for facilities maintenance and quality control or facilities licensure work of average difficulty; and performs related work as required.
Distinguishing Features: An employee in this class surveys facilities to determine maintenance and construction needs, plan jobs and determine material requirements, estimate cost of materials and labor, and prioritize maintenance needs; or to determine compliance with licensure requirements. This class differs from Facilities Supervisor and Facilities Manager in that incumbents of the latter are responsible for maintenance at a facility, including supervising employees performing facilities maintenance and construction work.
Responsibilities
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events:
- Detects non-compliance with life safety issues through physical inspections.
- Detects changes in physical condition of facilities through annual inspections.
- Detects changes in policies and procedures through documentation reviews.
- Performs visual inspections of facilities, looking at both the exterior and the interior, to determine need for repairs, to develop a work program, and to determine the safety of facilities.
- Obtains written information from prior inspections of facilities so that reviews can be performed.
- Receives specialized or technical information, both written and electronic, from contractors and internal and external sources for use in projects.
- Provides reports specifying issues of non-compliance to supervisor.
- Relays pertinent information to supervisor as soon as needed by phone, e-mail, in person, or through written documents.
- Generates reports specifying issues of non-compliance and receives and evaluates plans of correction.
- Communicates with other state agencies to receive and provide necessary information in person, by phone, through e-mail, or in writing.
Processing Information:
- Verifies that information submitted by licensees is accurate.
- Creates, compiles, and maintains files on jobs and on licensed facilities.
Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information:
- Recognizes potential violations of ADA requirements and national, state, and local codes and performs follow-up inspections to ensure that verified violations are corrected.
- Looks at boilers, chillers, HVAC systems, smoke detectors, fire alarm systems, household appliances, and other equipment to ensure that they are operating properly and safely.
- Operates passenger vehicles to travel to and from work sites.
- Utilizes GPS and/or maps to locate facilities to be inspected.
- Receives complaints from contractors or other members of the public and attempts to resolve them; refers unresolved complaints to supervisor.
- Accesses areas to be inspected, both indoors and outdoors, such as structures of various occupancy, roofs, nature trails, boardwalks, basements, and confined spaces.
- Organizes inspection files for submission to supervisor, ensuring that priority situations are completed first.
Interacting with Computers:
- Creates and maintains electronic files.
- Creates good working relationships with contractors, other state employees, and employees of licensed agencies.
- Uses a checklist to evaluate conditions observed on-site for relevancy to determine if they are compliant with departmental rules.
Developing Objectives and Strategies:
- Participates in prioritizing projects to develop a multi-year plan for completion.
- Ensures that timing of projects does not conflict with other scheduled departmental activities.
Competencies (KSA's)
Competencies:
- Drive for Results
- Written Communications
- Command Skills
- Action Oriented
- Functional/Technical Competency
- Priority Setting
- Standing Alone
- Conflict Management
- Decision Quality
- Time Management
- Knowledge of materials, methods, and tools involved in construction, repair, and maintenance of buildings and other structures such as campgrounds and roadways
- Basic knowledge of computer usage
- Knowledge of blueprint interpretation
- Knowledge of file creation and maintenance
- Knowledge of use and repair of mechanical equipment
- Knowledge of basic mathematics
Skills:
- Skill in understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making situations
- Skill in reading and comprehending written materials, such as applications and contract specifications
- Skill in monitoring and assessing the performance of others to ensure that codes, standards, and contract specifications are met
- Skill in talking to others to convey information effectively
- Skill in giving full attention to and understanding the points being made when others are speaking
- Skill in communicating effectively in writing so that others can understand the information being conveyed
- Skill in prioritizing projects against established deadlines
- Skill in inspecting services and work performed
- Skill in recognizing the condition of equipment and buildings
- Skill in determining the relative costs of facilities repair and maintenance
- Skill in using mathematics to solve problems and make estimates
Abilities:
- Ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing
- Ability to apply given rules to specific situations and arrive at best solutions
- Ability to identify and understand the speech of another person
- Ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so that others will understand
- Ability to listen to and understand information presented through spoken words
- Ability to present ideas verbally so that others can understand
- Ability to perform visual and auditory inspections
- Ability to tell if something is wrong or likely to go wrong
- Ability to speak clearly so others can understand you
- Ability to use correct mathematical methods to arrive at the correct answer and to determine when an answer is wrong
- Ability to judge the distance between you and an object
- Ability to know your location in relation to objects around you
- Ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion
- Ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position
Tools & Equipment
- Computer
- Telephone
- Tape Measure
- Measuring Wheel
- Automobile
- Flashlight
- Calculator
- Volt Meter
- Socket Wrench
- Screwdriver
- Hammer
- Camera
- Cell Phone
- Temperature Sensor
- Ladder
Salary : $54,204 - $67,656
