Assistant Building Manager

Title: Assistant Building Manager

Program: Canopy House Women’s Shelter

Salary Range: $45,000 per year

Program Description:

Canopy House provides 171 emergency shelter beds for homeless women diagnosed with mental illness and/or substance use disorders. Our comprehensive services include case management, individual and group counseling, recreational activities, occupational therapy, mental health services and housing placement assistance. Canopy House is a unique facility in that it is co-located with a supportive housing program that occupies the top 15 floors of the building and offers a street facing Article 28 clinic on the first floor dedicated to providing primary and behavioral health care services.

Overall Responsibilities:

Under the general direction of the Program Director, and the Assistant Director and/or Director of Facilities with latitude for independent action and decision making, the Building Manager is responsible for hands-on involvement and direction of the custodial staff in performing all repair and maintenance work in the interior and, as needed, the exterior of the building, ensuring that all building equipment is functioning properly to provide a safe, clean, sanitary and code compliant facility for clients and staff; coordinating the performance and completion of any capital improvement projects with the appropriate staff: performs related work.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The essential duties of the Assistant Building Manager include but are not limited to the following activities:

• Supervises, directs, demonstrates for, and works with the custodial staff and facilities team members to perform daily tasks in response to work requests from staff and clients

• Provides on-site training to custodial staff to enable them to properly perform the myriad of work to be completed

• Responsible for handling small repairs in the facility.

• Ensure that staff maintain the conditions on the exterior of the building

• Coordinates the completion of all the work to be done in the facility in anticipation of thorough inspections

• Oversee the proper functioning of the building’s boiler, ensuring that any needed repairs are completed as quickly as possible and that all inspections are performed and recorded

• Monitors the use of the technical contracts that have been issued for selected repair and maintenance work, utilizing these when emergencies occur, especially plumbing and electrical situations

• Ensures that any repair work being done by outside contractors is monitored and inspected prior to the work being accepted and processed for payment

• Prepares requisitions for supplies and equipment and maintains an adequate inventory so staff can have the needed goods and materials to perform the requested work.

• Routinely checks all areas of the facility to prevent the issuance of any violations by staff from any city or state agencies

• Completes corrective action plans for all building/maintenance inspection citations issued against the facility

• Available to respond to emergencies on a 24/7/365 basis, especially after normal work hours, weekends, and holidays

Qualifications:

• Associate’s degree with a minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience, including two (2) years of experience supervising maintenance or custodial workers, or

• High School Diploma or equivalent and a minimum of six (6) years of progressively responsible experience, including three (3) years’ experience supervising maintenance or custodial workers

• Bilingual or multilingual a plus

• Certificates and Credentials

• P99- Con Low PSI Oil Burn

• S12- City Wide Sprinkler systems

• S13- City Wide Standpipe System

• S95- Supervision of Fire Alarm Systems

• F01- City Wide Fire Guard for Impairment

• Demonstrated ability to manage and motivate staff to accomplish stated program goals and objectives while developing their individual and group skills.

• Ability to develop and foster, through demonstration, team spirit, enabling staff to overcome the challenges of providing services needed to a special client population.

• Excellent oral, writing, and listening skills are a must.

• The ability to work well within a highly pressurized, deadline environment, while meeting the short- and long-term mandates of the program.

• An ability to interface with clients as well as all levels of staff.

• Knowledge of case management software as well as proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and work order systems.