What are the responsibilities and job description for the Facilities Operations Supervisor position at Knott's Berry Farm?
Job Description
The Facilities Maintenance Area Manager oversees maintenance activities at Knott's Berry Farm to ensure the park's infrastructure operates safely and efficiently. This role involves leading a team of professionals, developing schedules, and collaborating with other departments to address facility issues promptly.
- This position emphasizes total team leadership, covering various trades such as Plumbing, Garage, and HVAC shops when functional leadership is not present or when assistance is needed.
- The manager plans and directs the work staff, including training, assigning, scheduling, reviewing work performance, coordinating activities, maintaining standards, allocating personnel, selecting new associates, and acting on associate problems.
- The manager coordinates work on multi-craft and multi-divisional projects involving sign, paint, carpentry, electrical, plumbing, machine, mechanical, and décor shops.
Responsibilities
- Manage and lead the paint, sign, carpenter shops for a large amusement park, aquatic park, and facility systems.
- Schedule associates and assign tasks according to business needs, coordinate work on special event projects, and plan and develop preventative maintenance job plans.
- Lead and develop project/repair estimates that include materials, equipment, contractors, and internal labor personnel required to successfully complete projects.
- Proactively develop sustainment corrective action plans that package work together in the same land to achieve deploying the tradesmen using an economy of movement that results in highly effective and efficient labor utilization.
Qualifications
- An Associate's degree/vocational or technical school degree, with a focus in Construction or Facilities Maintenance, is required.
- Vocational/technical training in Project Management, Construction, Maintenance is preferred.
- Previous leadership/management experience overseeing a large group is necessary.
- Practical experience working in a regulated environment is required.
