Facilities Supervisor- Maintenance

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Full Time Nashville, TN, US

3 days ago Requisition

Overview:

Under the direction of the Facilities Maintenance Manager, plans, schedules, and supervises the daily maintenance and repair of agency facilities and equipment, including public-facing passenger facilities (transit centers, stations, and park-and-rides) and operations and maintenance (O&M) facilities (bus garages, shops, fueling and wash systems, and administrative buildings). Provides first-line leadership to facilities technicians and ensures that passenger facilities are safe, clean, accessible, and in service for customers and that O&M facilities and shop equipment are available to support daily service.

Responsibilities:

This list indicates the general nature and level of work performed and is not an exhaustive listing of all tasks required of employees assigned to this job.

• Supervision: Plans, assigns, and directs the daily work of facilities technicians across multiple sites, setting priorities by safety, customer impact, and service criticality. Participates in hiring, training, coaching, and progressive discipline consistent with the collective bargaining agreement, and supports the grievance process. Manages schedules, attendance, timekeeping, and overtime, and inspects completed work.
• Preventive maintenance and repair: Carries out the preventive maintenance program for buildings, grounds, and equipment, including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, building automation, fire and life-safety systems, generators, roofs, and doors. Troubleshoots building systems, including programmable logic controllers, and determines whether repairs are done in-house or by contractors. Responds to facility emergencies, outages, and severe weather, including after-hours callouts.
• Passenger facilities: Maintains passenger facilities to agency standards for safety, cleanliness, and appearance, including waiting areas, platforms, bus bays, restrooms, lighting, signage, and landscaping. Ensures prompt response to graffiti, vandalism, biohazards, and customer-reported conditions.
• Accessibility: Keeps elevators, escalators, automatic doors, ramps, and other accessible features in working order under ADA requirements (49 CFR Part 37); ensures prompt repair, reports outages, and coordinates required inspections.
• Work in public spaces: Coordinates bay, platform, and area closures with Operations, Customer Care, and Security, with work areas barricaded and customer notices posted.
• O&M facilities: Maintains shop and yard equipment needed for daily service, including vehicle lifts, cranes and hoists, compressed air, fluid distribution, overhead doors, bus washers, and oil-water separators, along with fueling systems, storage tanks, and vehicle charging infrastructure where installed. Keeps required inspections current and coordinates work with Fleet Maintenance and Operations to protect service pull-out.
• Safety and environmental compliance: Enforces agency safety policies and OSHA and TOSHA requirements, including lockout/tagout, confined space, fall protection, and electrical safety. Conducts safety briefings, investigates incidents, and reports hazards through the agency’s Safety Management System. Carries out hazardous materials, hazardous waste, spill prevention, and storm water procedures.
• Asset management and reporting: Documents all work in the agency’s enterprise asset management (EAM) system and reports on key performance indicators such as preventive maintenance on-time completion, work order backlog, and elevator availability. Supports the Transit Asset Management (TAM) program through facility condition assessments, asset records, and warranty tracking, and maintains records for FTA reviews.
• Contracts, procurement, and projects: Oversees the daily work of maintenance contractors and reviews invoices. Requests materials and services under agency and FTA procurement requirements, monitors spending, and provides budget input. Plans and monitors minor repair projects and coordinates with State of Good Repair staff on larger projects.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

High school diploma or equivalent and five years of progressively responsible experience in commercial or industrial facilities maintenance, including two years in a lead or supervisory role and hands-on troubleshooting of building systems (HVAC,…