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Trades Supervisor


Job Location:

Madison, OH - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 17 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 14 October 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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Job Category:
Academic Staff

Employment Type:
Regular

Job Profile:
Trades Supervisor

Job Summary:

University Housing Facilities is looking for an experienced Trades Supervisor and Maintenance Supervisor to join our Team!

As a Trades Supervisor or Maintenance Supervisor youll lead and support a team of skilled trades or maintenance staff within University Housing residence halls dining spaces and University Apartments. Youll help foster a collaborative work environment and will support the team in critical project goals and daily operations.

University Housing Facilities is looking for a Trades Supervisor who needs to have knowledge and experience in construction trades and experience in supervision to provide appropriate levels of service to residents and staff. This position handles key coordination of multi-trade work in occupied residence halls and dining spaces communicating regularly with residents and parents. This position manages daily service requests impacting trades staff in residence halls and dining locations ensuring that our service standards are met for residents and guests. This position also manages several projects with both in-house staff and contracted vendors and is responsible for managing their trades supplies and the services budget.

University Housing Facilities is also looking for a Maintenance Supervisor who needs to have knowledge and experience in mechanical maintenance and experience in supervision to provide appropriate levels of service to residents and staff. This position handles key coordination of maintenance work in occupied University Apartments communicating regularly with residents. This position manages the turnover of apartments for the maintenance staff that need to work in every apartment between tenants. This position also manages several projects in the maintenance area and is also responsible for managing the annual maintenance supplies and services budget.

University Housing Facilities leadership work closely together to support the needs of our resident community and to ensure an excellent work environment for our staff. As part of the Facilities leadership team youll lead and support area staff provide timely communications on projects share important updates with stakeholders and provide your thoughts and expertise on day-to-day and long-term strategies.

Work Schedule:

  • The primary schedule for these positions is Monday -Friday 8-hour shifts between the hours of 7:00am 5:30pm
  • Work schedule will be set with selected finalist(s) at time of offer. Schedule alterations as operations and position expectations demand.

Key Job Responsibilities:
  • Coordinates response to life safety inspections and any repair or alterations needed.
  • Serves as the unit liaison to internal stakeholder groups providing organizational information to align project objectives with overall strategic plans and initiatives
  • Monitors the work unit or project budget and approves expenditures
  • Exercises supervisory authority including hiring transferring suspending promoting managing conduct and performance discharging assigning rewarding disciplining and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
  • Oversees the required inspection of life safety equipment responds to life safety equipment needs and organizes fire drill evacuations.
  • Identifies proposes and implements new or revised unit operational plans and quality assurance programs to ensure compliance with general construction and maintenance practices
  • Researches sources orders receives and distributes parts materials supplies tools and safety equipment to support staff needs.
  • Develops directs executes and monitors operational work plans for a designated unit or affiliated projects to ensure compliance with plan regulations and timelines

Department:

Division of University Housing University Housing Facilities

Housing Facilities is part of the Division of University Housing at the University of WisconsinMadison. Our team is responsible for the full spectrum of two distinct facilities operations which include housekeeping mechanical maintenance infrastructure repairs and renewal and longterm capital planning for both undergraduate students and graduate students and their families living with us. As a student service organization Housing Facilities advances the universitys mission by delivering safe well-maintained living and learning environments.

The Residence Halls consisting of 30 buildings and 2 million square feet houses approximately 8000 undergraduate students during the academic year and welcomes more than 18000 conference and program guests each addition to living spaces our operations support a wide range of programs and functions including classrooms office spaces dining and culinary operations marketplace venues meeting rooms and event spaces.

University Apartments provides housing to an average of 2500 residents in 1240 apartments serving a diverse community of graduate students staff and their families. The University Apartments community is located on over 80 acres of greenspace and also includes a large community center with a Housing-operated licensed early childhood education program.

While most of our front-line staff and supervisors are hired with a primary unit location to serve residents and guests specific to their role our facilities team is committed to remaining flexible enough to support each other and our operations as needed throughout the year.

Compensation:

The starting annual salary is $92000 or higher based on qualifications with a competitive retirement and benefits package including vacation holidays and paid time off. Benefits information can be found at ( Qualifications:

High School Diploma Preferred minimum

Please submit a resume and cover letter within the online application system. There will be only one attachment field; you must upload all your documents in the attachment field. We are only able to consider completed application materials submitted by the deadline date.

Candidates who apply for this position may be considered for other or future vacancies within this title including those which may have a different work schedule and/or requirements from this vacancy.

Additional Information:

This position has been identified as a position of trust with access to vulnerable selected candidate will be required to pass an initial criminal background check to be eligible for employment and then every four years thereafter.

Please note that successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States a lawful permanent resident a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment.

University Housing may communicate with you about your application status using a text messaging service. To opt-out please reply STOP to text messages received or contact University Housing HR at or . Message and data rates may apply.

University Housing Human Resources

Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. SeeRELAYSERVICEfor further information.

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength creativity and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity culture background experience status abilities and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching research outreach and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students faculty and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal OpportunityEmployer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to including but not limited to race color religion sex sexual orientation national origin age pregnancy disability or status as a protected veteran and other bases as defined by federal regulations and UW System policies. We promote excellence by acknowledging skills and expertise from all backgroundsand encourage all qualified individuals to apply. For more information regarding applicant and employee rights and to view federal and state required postings visit the Human Resources Workplace Poster website.

To request a disability or pregnancy-related accommodationfor any step in the hiring process (e.g. application interview pre-employment testing etc.) please contact the Divisional Disability Representative (DDR)in the division you are applying make your request as soon as possible to help the university respond most effectively to you.

Employment may require a criminal background check. It may also require your references to answer questions regarding misconduct including sexual violence and sexual harassment.

The University of Wisconsin System will not reveal the identities of applicants who request confidentiality in writing except that the identity of the successful candidate will be released. See Wis. Stat. sec. 19.36(7).

The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report contains current campus safety and disciplinary policies crime statistics for the previous 3 calendar years and on-campus student housing fire safety policies and fire statistics for the previous 3 calendar years. UW-Madison will provide a paper copy upon request; please contact the University of Wisconsin Police Department.


Required Experience:

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