Facilities Manager: Uplift North Hills Preparatory

Mission Statement:

Uplift's mission is to create and sustain public schools of excellence that empower each student to reach their highest potential in college and the global marketplace and that inspire in students a life-long love of learning, achievement, and service in order to positively change their world.

Equity Vision Statement:

Uplift Education proactively engages scholars, families, and staff members to thrive as their authentic selves and partner in the journey required to identify, address, and correct existing and potential inequities.

Primary Purpose:

Responsible for overall management and maintenance of the Uplift campus to which he or she is assigned. The Campus Facilities Manager is responsible for maintaining the integrity of all campus buildings, grounds, equipment, and other related property.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Perform and related documentation of daily campus walkthroughs and preventative inspections
• Perform preventative maintenance
• Ensure compliance with the Uplift risk mitigation program
• Ensure campus buildings and grounds are safe and take appropriate action to reduce risk exposure
• Ensure that all campus equipment is in proper working order and self-perform light to medium duty repairs as necessary
• Establish preventative maintenance schedules and replacement of all mechanical, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, safety and monitoring systems and other facilities equipment, such as security gates and doors
• Oversee after-hours and weekend on-call maintenance service as requested
• Be familiar with and enforce vendor service contracts and rectify any issues with vendors or contractors related to facilities
• Coordinate with established vendors/contractors and/or the CMO Facilities department to complete heavy facilities repairs that require an extensive time commitment or highly skilled labor
• Manage custodial staff as required by the Operations Director
• Reorder supplies to maintain appropriate on-hand inventory and request new or replacement equipment/tools
• Create and maintain custodial schedules and task goals
• Ensure all buildings and property meet city, state, TEA and federal regulations, ordinances and/or mandates
• Coordinate work required, if any, to comply with the Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation mandates
• Establish and maintain a schedule for inspection of all building systems, including elevator and fire systems, as needed and monitor to ensure continued compliance
• Maintain: equipment, tool inventory and accountability, gate and door schedules, keys and access card control
• Maintain campus records, receipts and service orders using the Microsoft Office Suite and a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
• Additional duties as assigned
  
  
  

As required by the Operations Director

• Assist with facilitating decision making for key operational, facilities related issues by collaborating with key campus stakeholders
• Serve as a liaison for maintenance, repairs, and construction projects
• Assist and/or coordinate emergency drills
• Perform and coordinate summer cleaning, furniture re-allocation, painting, and other summer maintenance
• Research and help implement best practices for all non-instructional activities
• Monitor hallways, assist with cafeteria operations and assist with car-line (parent drop-off/pick-up)
  
  
  

As required by the Uplift Facilities Director

• Attend in-person and self-paced training as required
• Implement standardized operating procedures and/or best practices
• Provide reporting forms, checklists, and other documentation to ensure compliance
  
  
  

Qualifications:

Education, Experience, and/or Certification(s)

• Education Requirements: High School Diploma or GED equivalent is required.
• Experience Requirements: A minimum of two years’ experience in a building maintenance, facilities, janitorial or related role (commercial plumbing, electrical or HVAC, building automation, commercial construction) required. A minimum of four years is required in the following listed trades in lieu of the two years’ experience listed above: residential construction and remodeling in general or a specific trade, automotive or mechanic repair.
• Special Skills/Certifications: Certifications related to building maintenance or construction industry (i.e. journeyman/master electrician or plumber, HVAC certifications) preferred.
  
  
  

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Communication Skills: Ability to receive and understand verbal and written instructions in English, receive or convey technical and complicated concepts. Read, and understand technical manuals when instructions may be written from a foreign non-English speaking country is required.
• Bilingual Skills: Spanish preferred.
• Driving Skills: Possess and maintain a valid Class C driver’s license and have a clean driving record. May be required to drive Uplift owned or rented vehicles.
• Technology: Intermediate or advanced ability to learn and use computer software, learn how to operate a CMMS; learn how to operate a burglar alarm, surveillance, access control, HVAC and work order software; use a smart phone to send and receive photos, text messages. Intermediate use of Microsoft Office applications with an emphasis on Excel and Outlook.
  
  
  

Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:

The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Sit and stand for extended periods of time
• Articulate wrists, hands, and fingers
• Extensive walking
• Regularly required to reach, balance, stoop, kneel, twist, bend, climb and crawl
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
• Frequently required to lift or move furniture or supplies such as, but not limited to café tables, office supplies and janitorial supplies
• Frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and exposed electrical terminals
• Extended periods of being outside during extreme hot or cold weather
• Occasional exposure to fumes or airborne particles, extreme cold and extreme heat
• Vision: distance, color, depth perception and ability to adjust focus
• Occasional exposure to loud equipment
  
  
  

Starting Salary: $44,000

• Uplift Education is an equal employment opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state or local law.