Area Facilities Manager

Company: Confidential
Location: Des Moines
Posted on: February 25, 2021

Job Description:

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:* Supports and implements the organizations vision, mission, and values.* Promotes a culture of high performance and continuous improvement that values learning and a commitment to quality.* Ensures staff members receive timely and appropriate training and development.* Establishes and monitors staff performance and development goals, assigns accountabilities, sets objectives, establishes priorities, measures performance, evaluates results, and administers salary adjustments.* Provides high quality, service-oriented support to meet the needs of internal customers.* Fosters and promotes a culture of service excellence and accountability. Communicates effectively throughout the organization with customers with colleagues at all levels in the organization.* Performs job duties independently and exercises good judgment.* Develops, plans, implements, and executes organization-wide preventive maintenance plans for all facilities including mobile facilities and associated equipment.* Conducts periodic assessments of environmental cleaning, landscape maintenance, parking, and security contractors for adherence to company policies and quality of work for recommendation to upper and senior management.* Develops, recommends, plans, and implements safety programs, policies, and procedures in compliance with organizational, local, state, and federal rules and regulations. Advises leadership on safety compliance concerns and makes recommendations on preventative actions.* Plans and implements training for employees on work site safety and environmental practices.* Performs safety inspections and ergonomic assessments, prepares written reports of findings and recommendations for corrective or preventive measures, and follows up to ensure measures have been implemented.* Responds in a timely manner to correspondence from regulatory agencies associated with interval preventive maintenance and testing including backflow prevention assemblies, elevators, fire suppression and communication systems, and others.* Maintains Safety Data Sheet documentation of chemicals used by facilities maintenance staff including contracted environmental cleaning services and maintains up-to-date inventory and documentation on hazardous materials stored and used within the organization.* Manages the intake, assignment, follow-up, quality, and internal customer service related to facilities maintenance projects.* Supervises facilities staff to ensure productivity, accountability and workmanship standards and goals are met.* Maintains vendor relationships and cultivates new relationships as necessary for effective and efficient facilities maintenance.* Requests, evaluates, and develops plans for repairs, renovations, expansion and build out of new facilities to assist with the development of comprehensive space and budgetary planning for leadership and BOD approval.* Other duties as assigned.QUALIFICATIONS:To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:Required: Bachelors degree in facilities engineering, or similar engineering background that may include mechanical, environmental, or construction engineering. And a minimum of 2 years of recent experience in facilities or plant operations supervision/management and at least 5 years of recent management experience. Or Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of management experience and 5+ years of recent facilities management experience.Preferred: 2 or more years experience in a health care environment; PMP certificationLANGUAGE SKILLS:Ability to read and interpret documents, such as policies and procedures, benefits information, benefit surveys, routine mail, construction and architectural contracts, and procedure manuals. Ability to compose routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively with employees, vendors, visitors, and management.MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, and the ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.REASONING ABILITY:Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations. Ability to apply common sense to daily situations that arise. Ability to make decisions and execute timely to produce positive outcomes.

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