Director, Facilities

Description Director Facilities

Washington, DC | In-Person | $80K - $90K | Washington Post Top Workplace

Join Community of Hope as a Director of facilites. In this role you will maintain facilities in compliance with applicable building, fire, accessibility, workplace safety, environmental health, shelter, and health care regulations. You will provide strategic and day-to-day leadership for planning, operation, maintenance, safety, security, compliance, and continuous improvement of facilities across the agency’s multiple health centers and temporary housing shelters.

In addition you will ensure that administrative, program, and community-facing spaces are maintained in good repair, with conditions routinely assessed and confirmed as satisfactory, and that they remain safe, accessible, and welcoming.
This position is located at Conway Health and Resource Center in Southwest, DC.

• We celebrate people’s strengths and acknowledge the impact of trauma on people’s lives.
• We embrace diversity, welcome all voices, and treat everyone with respect and compassion.
• We lead and advocate for changes to make systems more equitable.
• We strive for excellence and value integrity in all that we do

• Directs daily operations, preventive maintenance, repair, inspection, and long-range planning across health centers, temporary housing shelters, administrative offices, storage areas, outdoor spaces, and supports facilities.
• Performs regular facility inspections with the goal of visiting each site weekly to check conditions and to ensure that administrative, program, and community-facing spaces are maintained in good repair, with conditions routinely assessed and confirmed as satisfactory, and that they remain safe, accessible, and welcoming.
• Maximizes the agency’s use of MaintainX as the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to create, assign, prioritize, and monitor work orders; manage preventive maintenance schedules, inspections, checklists, asset records, documentation, and reporting; promotes timely follow-up, data quality, accountability, and continuous improvement across all sites.
• Partners with operations, health and shelter leadership, and the Safety/Emergency Preparedness Committee to maintain emergency response plans for power outages, severe weather, utility interruptions, infectious disease concerns, facility incidents, resident emergencies, and other disruptions; schedules and leads emergency drills; serves on BERT (Building Emergency Response Team).
• In collaboration with the supervisor and key Operations Leadership, provides capital improvement recommendations and works with the Director of Capital/Special Projects, where applicable, to ensure capital improvement projects are completed satisfactorily, on budget, and on schedule.
• Meets with supervises regularly and provides real-time feedback, training, support, and coaching as needed. Creates meeting agendas, sends meeting agendas in advance when possible, and documents concerns promptly as needed.
• Applies principles learned through diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) trainings and/or trauma informed care trainings (TIC) and leads with a DEI and TIC lens when appropriate.
• Reviews the performance of team members in a timely manner, including completing 90 day and annual performance evaluations per their due dates, documenting any issues or changes, providing recommendations for professional development and/or training opportunities, and recognizing staff when appropriate.
• Partners with the Talent Management team regarding personnel matters including but not limited to, terminations, leaves of absence, training, onboarding, and other COH handbook policies.
• If applicable, actively recruits for vacancies…