Building Maintenance Supervisor Office​/On-site

Do you have a passion for providing building support and maintenance? If so, we invite you to apply to join our team at the Connecticut Technical Education and Career System in Norwich! The State of Connecticut, Connecticut Technical Education and Career System (CTECS), is recruiting a Building Maintenance Supervisor to support Norwich Technical High School located in Norwich, CT.

• SCHOOL:
  Norwich Technical High School
• LOCATION:
  
  Norwich, CT
• SHIFT:
  Full-time, first shift, 37.5 hours per week
• SCHEDULE:
  
  Monday
  - Friday, 6:00 am - 2:00 pm
• This is an on-call assignment

CTECS serves approximately 11,200 full-time high school students. We have upgraded state-of-the-art classrooms and industry-standard equipment in every shop, giving students a well-rounded, 21st century education.

• Visit our new State Employee Benefits Overview page!
• Professional growth and paid professional development opportunities.
• A healthy work-life balance to all employees.
• State of Connecticut is an eligible Public Service Loan Forgiveness employer, meaning you may be eligible to have qualifying student loan forgiveness after 10 years of service.

• Engage in a rewarding career
• Assist our employees so they can achieve success
• Make a difference in the public sector
• Work together in a collaborative team environment

In a state agency this class is accountable for functioning in one (1) of the following ways:

• As staff assistant to a Plant Facilities Engineer 2 at a major state institution supervises and coordinates maintenance and repair projects in the building and maintenance trades;
• As chief physical plant employee at a moderate sized state institution in charge of custodial and maintenance services for the entire institution;
• As chief physical plant employee at a regional vocational technical school in charge of custodial and maintenance services for the entire institution.

• Schedules, assigns, oversees and reviews work of staff;
• Provides staff training and assistance;
• Conducts performance evaluations;
• Determines priorities and plans building and grounds maintenance work;
• Establishes and maintains building maintenance procedures;
• Develops or makes recommendations on development of policies and standards;
• Acts as liaison with other operating units, agencies and outside officials regarding unit policies and procedures;
• Prepares reports and correspondence;
• Inspects buildings and equipment to determine repair and improvement needs;
• Receives repair requests, makes estimates of time and materials to meet requests and prioritizes according to need;
• Maintains inventories of tools, equipment, supplies and orders or requisitions when needed, possibly requiring interaction with vendors;
• Serves as a centralized purchasing officer for properties under their authority;
• Coordinates arrangements for deliveries of materials and access to area by workers;
• Arranges alternative plans for areas and services disrupted during construction and/or repair;
• May solicit bids from outside contractors and inspect contracted work;
• May read and interpret design blueprints and specifications for small scale renovations and remodeling;
• May make budget recommendations;
• Performs related duties as required.

In charge of such operations as heat supply, custodial work, vehicles and transportation as well as maintenance and repair.

• Considerable knowledge of relevant state and federal laws, statutes and regulations;
• relevant agency policies and procedures;
• materials and methods of building repair and maintenance;
• preventive maintenance techniques;
• Considerable interpersonal skills;
• Oral and written communication skills;
• Ability to lay out and inspect building repair and maintenance work;
• read and interpret blueprints and specifications;
• coordinate work assignments;
• utilize computer software;
• Supervisory ability.

• Six (6) years of experience in the repair and maintenance of large buildings.
• NOTE:
  
  Experience performing technical duties within the maintenance trade area on a military base, aircraft carrier or large compound may be substituted for the General Experience on a year-for-year basis.

• Two (2) years of the General Experience must have been in a supervisory capacity.
• NOTE:
  
  For state employees this experience is interpreted at the level of a Building Superintendent 2.