The following vacancy exists in Goshen Community Schools for the 2021-22 school year:

Goshen Community Schools

Director of Facilities

POSITION PURPOSE: Under the direction of the Executive Director of Finance, the Director of Facilities will plan, organize, assist, and direct facility maintenance, security, repair, and the physical operation of Goshen Community Schools.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: The listed duties are illustrative only and are not intended to describe each and every function which may be performed in the job class. The omission of specific statements does not preclude management form assigning specific duties not listed herein if such duties are a logical assignment to the position.

• Plans, schedules and assigns employees to various cleaning, maintenance, repair, ice and snow removal, renovation and building safety tasks.
• Prepares the annual operating budget and monitors revenues and expenditures.
• Interviews, recommends for hire, evaluates and disciplines departmental employees.
• Plans, coordinates and conducts periodic inspections of all facilities required by local, state or federal law such as fire inspections, asbestos inspections, insurance safety inspections and annual visual inspections of all school facilities as required to ensure compliance with applicable codes and standards.
• Makes determinations about scope of maintenance and/or repair activities and decides which can be accomplished by in-house maintenance staff and which are to be contracted out.
• Monitors all phases of capital construction projects; acts as liaison between the school district and contractors, or construction managers engaged in providing services to school district properties.
• Responds to inquiries from district employees, department heads and the public regarding school district buildings and grounds activities.
• Inspects work performed by custodial or maintenance employees or private contractors to ensure proper cleaning, maintenance, repair and groundskeeping procedures are being followed, checks for safety and health hazards, and makes recommendations for correction and improvements.
• Performs any other related duties as required or assigned.

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Must be at least 18 years of age
• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Prior experience preferred in general maintenance and repair, construction, and plumbing

QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Thorough knowledge of modern school district building maintenance and operations practices
• Knowledge of grounds maintenance
• Knowledge of applicable codes, laws, rules and regulations governing school district facilities and construction
• Ability to effectively communicate information and respond to questions in person-to-person and small group situations with students, staff and the community.
• Ability to read building prints.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of known variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram formats.
• Under direction where a definite objective is set up and the employee plans and arranges own work, referring only unusual cases to supervisor.
• Considerable responsibility about general assignments in planning time, method, manner and/or sequence of performance of own work, in addition, the work operations of a group of employees, all performing basically the same type of work.
• Performs work operations which permit frequent opportunity for decision-making of minor importance and frequent opportunity for decision-making of major importance, either of which would affect the work operations of small organizational component and the organization’s clientele.
• Operations requiring very close and continuous attention for control of operations which require a high degree of coordination or immediate response.
• Operations requiring intermittent direct thinking to determine or select the most applicable way of handling situations requiring the organizations administration and operations; also, to determine or select material and equipment where highly variable sequences are involved.
• Moderately directed. Activities covered by wide-ranging policies and courses of action, and generally directed as to execution and review. High order of analytical, interpretative, and/or constructive thinking in varied situations.
• Regular use of complex machines and equipment

WORK CALENDAR: 52 weeks per year, 40 hours per week

SALARY: Based on Education and Experience

APPLICATION PROCESS: In order to be considered for an interview, all applicants must have completed their on-line application at: https://goshenschools.tedk12.com/hire/index.aspx.

CURRENT GCS EMPLOYEES CLICK HERE

Please attach the following to your application:

• Letter of interest
• Up-to-date resume
• Reference Letter(s)
• Current Indiana Professional Educator’s License

For questions regarding this position please contact:

Dr. Steve Hope

Administration Building

613 East Purl Street

Goshen, IN 46526

shope@goshenschools.org

The Goshen Community School's Board of School Trustees is an equal opportunity employer. Selection of the applicant will be made without reference to race, color, creed, sex, age, handicap, or national origin.

THE CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIVING APPLICATIONS IS: Until Filled