Facilities Manager

HOURS:

• 40 hours per week

• Maintains maintenance logs, coordinates, and participates in scheduled maintenance procedures; ensures maintenance guidelines follow warranties and contracts
• Plans, directs, and may implement preventative maintenance procedures for related equipment, recommends and performs minor and some moderate repairs (program vehicles, faucet, toilets, and light fixtures)
• Maintain and comply with provincial requirements for water and sewage treatment.
• Develops and proposes short and long term maintenance plans to senior management for approval and implementation
• Conducts fire safety inspections and inspects fire safety systems as per fire code
• Ensures the grounds are in good general appearance
• Plans and coordinates renovation projects, including dry walling, minor electrical repairs, painting and plumbing
• Conducts moderate troubleshooting of building systems and calls in other professionals when required
• Participates in developing specifications for tenders, may negotiate tenders and in monitoring quality of workmanship of outside contractors and/or maintenance personnel
• Ensures supplies are received, stored, and redistributed to the appropriate departments
• Ensures that the repairs or purchases of new equipment are within the defined budget
• Participates in the hiring, orientating, training, evaluating, recognizing, and recommendation of disciplinary actions including termination in concert with Territorial/Divisional standards
• May act as a group work leader
• Performs other duties as assigned

• The successful job applicant will have completed up to two (2) years of Community College.

Experience:

• The incumbent must have the following experience before hire:

  Three years but less than five years of prior related experience, including custodial, computer skills, general repairs (i.e. electrical & plumbing), building systems, fire safety, water treatment and electrical systems experience.

Required Skills/Knowledge: 

• The incumbent’s work environment is typically throughout the building and external grounds (with minor roof repairs).

The incumbent will work under the following disagreeable conditions:

• Machinery noise
• Confined spaces
• Varying temperatures (Heat/Cold)
• Unsanitary conditions
• The incumbent is required to travel up to 30% of the time.
• The incumbent works on-call and carries a pager/cell phone.

Successful candidates, prior to hiring, may be required to provide:

• Background check consent
• A clear vulnerable sector screening
• A clean drivers abstract
• Completion of our online Armatus Abuse Training and required Health and Safety training

The Salvation Army will accommodate candidates as required under applicable human rights legislation.   If you require a disability-related accommodation during this process, please inform us of your requirements. 

We thank all applicants, however, only those candidates to be interviewed will be contacted.

Internal Applicants, please advise your managing supervisor of your intentions prior to submitting your application.