Director of Maintenance

The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction is seeking applicants for the Director of Maintenance for the Governor Morehead School for the Blind (GMS). GMS is a residential school responsible for providing educational instruction to visually impaired students in grades K-12 from across North Carolina. The primary purpose of this position is to provide a comprehensive student life program to students ages 5-22 who are blind or visually impaired.

This position is responsible for the Maintenance/Construction Manager II is to oversee all functional maintenance services and supports of the GMS campus. GMS has 25 buildings and over 40 acresland that require consistent careful stewardship and detailed attention. GMS has approximately 8 service vehicles connected to maintenance that serve the entire campus and the maintenance department has employees consisting of licensed construction workers warehouse workers housekeepers electricians boiler operators painters groundskeepers and carpentry professionals. The Maintenance/Construction Manager II helps manage the capital improvement program for GMS which includes providing programming budget requests project management architectural and engineering design and construction administration services and manages GMS leased property needs where warranted.

The position provides directions to a total of 16 maintenance workers through direct supervision of one separate maintenance/ground supervisor and one housekeeping supervisor who reports directly to the Maintenance/Construction Manager. The position directly reports to the GMS Superintendent. The position is required to work independently with general to little supervision.

Description of Work:

45% - Maintenance Services Maintenance Services responsibilities include but are not limited to the following tasks:

1. Provide electrical mechanical plumbing steam heating ventilation air conditioning automotive repair electronics carpentry painting locksmith grounds pest control and housekeeping services including preventative maintenance services to ensure buildings are maintained to meet safety cleanliness functional comfort and efficiency industry standard level of care and applicable code requirements.

2. Ensure that material inventory is continuously tracked and evaluated to determine if different materials need to be stocked and to order materials as required to provide maintenance staff with appropriate and timely material stock for completing their work.

3. Provide grounds services including landscaping services and roadway upkeep and clearing services to ensure that grounds are maintained to a safe functional and aesthetically pleasing industry standard level of care.

4. Prioritize all received maintenance and grounds work requests and address all requests in a timely manner cost effectively and with high quality.

30% - Personnel Management Personnel management responsibilities include but are not limited to the following tasks:

1. Direct your entire work group through supervising your direct reports.

2. Address all personnel issues in an appropriate and timely manner.

3. Ensure that all required personnel actions and forms are completed in accordance with the requirements policies and procedures of the DHHS Division of Human Resources.

4. Evaluate and adjust staffing levels and capabilities to match operational needs of the department including identifying and providing appropriate training for employees.

5. This position supervises the Housekeeping Supervisor position who has a staff of 3. Responsible for directing staff timesheets and leave requests and safety issues. Responsible for developing performance evaluation plans and conducting performance reviews job descriptions (PDs) and vacancy announcements. Responsible for hiring recruitment and retention and interviews. Responsible for personnel issues including verbal and documented counseling written warnings dismissal of State of North Carolina staff if necessary and conducting performance reviews ensuring that all state personnel policies procedures and standards are followed. Assist with setting up contractual support for housekeeping staff where appropriate.

20% - Force Account Project Work Force account project work responsibilities include but are not limited to the following tasks:

1. Meet and work with unit representatives for each repair and renovation project to develop the scope of work budget estimate and schedule.

2. Obtain the design services on behalf of the unit when necessary to ensure that work complies with all applicable building code requirements.

3. Evaluate and determine if work can be performed with inside force account labor or if work needs to be contracted to an outside contractor.

4. Prioritize all projects and manage the construction shops to deliver projects on schedule within budget and of high quality.

5. Work directly with employees or contracted GMS CPC to advise assist communicate and deliver on capital projects give input to two-year four year and six year plans.

6. Work directly with the business and finance personnel on all necessary purchases of materials equipment supplies tools and various shop needs.

7. Submit necessary paperwork to school administration to initiate emergency declarations in concert with CPC for the purpose of submission to the State Construction Office.

8. Attend scheduled GMS Board of Trustee meetings to provide necessary reports regarding the maintenance and projects.

5% - Policy Management Policy Management responsibilities include but are not limited to the following tasks: 1. Develop written policies and procedures for typical operations such as complying with safety requirements receiving and distributing maintenance work orders and for completing work. 2. Continuously evaluate and update maintenance policies and procedures for improvement recommendations. 3. Ensure that all employees remain current regarding proper maintenance practices and procedures including attending the required safety training.

Note: To receive credit for your work history and credentials you must list the information on the State of North Carolina application in the Education and Work Experience sections of the application form. Any information omitted from the application cannot be considered for qualifying credit. NC DPI welcomes attached or
incorporated resumes cover letters and reference information but these items will not be used for screening for qualifying credit. Please make sure the application is completed in full. See Resume or See Attachment will NOT be accepted.

As of April 2019 Executive Order #93 (Prohibiting the Use of Salary History in the State Hiring Process) became effective. This Executive Order prohibits state agencies from requesting salary history from applicants or relying on previously obtained prior salary information in determining an applicants salary.

EEO Statement:

The State of North Carolina and the Department of Public Instruction provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.