What are the responsibilities and job description for the Preventive Maintenance Team Leader position at Berea College?
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Description
The Preventive Maintenance (PM) Team Leader is responsible for planning, coordinating, and supervising preventive maintenance activities across campus facilities. This role supervises a team of 4–6 maintenance employees and oversees campus pest control and automotive maintenance programs. The PM Team Leader’s primary focus is ensuring the reliable, efficient, and safe operation of critical building systems and equipment, including HVAC systems, generators, air compressors, and other mechanical and utility assets typical of a college campus.
This position combines hands-on technical expertise with leadership, planning, and administrative responsibilities to ensure maintenance work is performed proactively, consistently, and in accordance with safety, regulatory, and institutional standards.
Your Key Responsibilities
Education required to ensure success in this position:
Founded in 1855, Berea College is nationally recognized as the first coeducational and interracial college in the South. Berea has a longstanding commitment to interracial education and is one of the most racially diverse private liberal arts colleges in the United States. With an emphasis on service to Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls more than 1,500 students from 46 states and U.S. territories and more than 70 countries. Berea College admits students who are unable to afford tuition and provides all of them with a no-tuition promise. Berea’s students excel in the College’s supportive yet demanding academic environment, and most are the first in their families to attend college. As one of only ten federally recognized Work Colleges, all Berea students are expected to work 10-12 hours weekly in various positions across campus. Berea College is also the only institution in Kentucky to receive the 5-Star Rating from Money Magazine, 2025. Washington Monthly has named Berea College the #1 Best College in the nation in its 2025 College Guide. Berea College appears in their rankings as #1 College (overall): Best College for your Tuition (and Tax) Dollars, #1 Best-in Class College, #1 Liberal Arts College and #1 Best Bang for the Buck Southern College.
Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available at www.berea.edu.
Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.
Berea College is always looking for talented, self-motivated individuals to join our team. If you think you are ready to be a part of an exciting team, then we encourage you to continue with this applicant friendly, online job application!
Berea College is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
Our Benefits
Berea College offers a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees and their families including health care, dental, vision, retirement, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability and an Employee Assistance Program. The benefit package also includes access to the Child Development Laboratory for children of College Staff, ages 6 weeks to 6 years, Seabury Center Membership, Staff Development Funds and Tuition Reimbursement.
Eligible staff employees also receive paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave.
Part-time employees who work an average of 24 hours per week over the course of a year, receive benefits on a pro-rated basis.
To learn more details, visit our benefits page at https://www.berea.edu/human-resources/employee-benefits.
Our Unique Culture
Berea College strives to be a place where people with various Christian interpretations, different religious traditions, and no religious traditions work together in support of Berea's Great Commitments.
Over the past century, various leaders of the College have applied the College’s inclusive scriptural foundation and spirit to their expanding world and welcomed those whose beliefs were consistent with the Christian gospel of impartial love. Therefore, Berea College today affirms its inclusive Christian tradition even as it respects the traditions of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus, as well as other faiths, and those holding no religious beliefs. We strive not to ignore our differences, but rather seek to understand each other honestly and respectfully, and together create a climate where anyone can openly discuss what they believe without fear of sanction. To that end, all persons who are willing to share in the spirit and the work of the Great Commitments as shaped by its preamble are welcome to study, to teach, and to work at Berea
Labor Supervision
In support of Berea College’s great commitments, staff and faculty serve as labor supervisors. Our fourth great commitment, The Dignity of Labor, promotes learning and serving in community through the student Labor Program, honoring the dignity and utility of all work, mental and manual, and taking pride in work well done. Student Labor Supervision includes scheduling, assigning, and approving student work, developing students' workplace acumen, and providing tangible work experience. To learn more about the labor program office please see the following link Labor Program Office.
Description
The Preventive Maintenance (PM) Team Leader is responsible for planning, coordinating, and supervising preventive maintenance activities across campus facilities. This role supervises a team of 4–6 maintenance employees and oversees campus pest control and automotive maintenance programs. The PM Team Leader’s primary focus is ensuring the reliable, efficient, and safe operation of critical building systems and equipment, including HVAC systems, generators, air compressors, and other mechanical and utility assets typical of a college campus.
This position combines hands-on technical expertise with leadership, planning, and administrative responsibilities to ensure maintenance work is performed proactively, consistently, and in accordance with safety, regulatory, and institutional standards.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Establish and implement of preventive maintenance activities including asset id and tagging, research and creation of written PM tasks for assets, integration of asset ID and PM information into CMMS database, establish PM frequencies, prioritization of PM tasking, scheduling tasks, analyze PM data to create efficiencies, establish and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Lead, supervise, and support a preventive maintenance team of 4–6 employees, including scheduling, training, and performance evaluation
- Plan, coordinate, and manage preventive maintenance programs for HVAC systems, generators, air compressors, and other campus equipment
- Ensure all preventive maintenance tasks are properly scheduled, documented, and completed using the CMMS
- Oversee campus pest control operations, including coordination with internal staff and external vendors
- Manage and coordinate automotive and fleet maintenance activities to ensure vehicle reliability and safety
- Monitor equipment performance, identify trends, and recommend repairs, replacements, or improvements
- Create scopes of work, solicit bids from vendors, and manage work of contractors.
- Learn and follow college purchasing policy
- Maintain accurate records, reports, and documentation related to maintenance activities, compliance, and asset history
- Ensure maintenance work is performed in compliance with safety standards, institutional policies, and regulatory requirements
- Collaborate with other Facilities Management teams to coordinate work, minimize disruptions, and support campus operations
- Assist with budgeting, inventory management, and procurement of materials, parts, and services related to preventive maintenance
- Strong working knowledge for being called on to perform duties in the following trades: carpentry, plumbing, electrical, painting, mechanical or HVAC.
- Troubleshoot and repair equipment and issues as necessary
- Conducts preventive, planned and reactive work orders to completion and satisfaction of campus customers.
- May manage or coordinate small maintenance or repair projects with either in-house technicians or subcontractors
- Performs plumbing and minor electrical/HVAC related work not requiring a license.
- Work necessary overtime, shiftwork, and emergency call out.
- Perform all other required tasks as assigned.
Education required to ensure success in this position:
- High School or equivalent,required
- Journeyman license in a trade such as HVAC or Electrical, oradiploma/certification from a recognized trade or vocational school in either HVAC, plumbing, electrical or general trade, strongly preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience managing maintenance tasks in a college campus, industrial facility, or institutional environment
- Minimum of 5 years of experience supervising and managing maintenance technicians
- Demonstrated experience with preventive maintenance programs for mechanical and building systems
- Fluent computer skills, including Microsoft Word and Excel
- Experience using a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) such as TMA, FMX, or similar platforms
- Five years of related experience and demonstrated competence in at least two or more of the following: HVAC, plumbing, electrical, mechanic, or a carpentry related general trade.
- Previous experience managing reactive and preventive maintenance programs in a multi-building environment
- Previous experience utilizing a CMMS
- Strong mechanical aptitude and ability to troubleshoot mechanical systems
- In-depth knowledge of preventive maintenance best practices for HVAC systems, generators, compressors, and mechanical equipment
- Strong leadership and supervisory skills, including coaching, performance management, and team development
- Working knowledge of pest control programs and vendor oversight in an institutional setting
- Understanding of automotive and fleet maintenance principles and scheduling
- Ability to analyze maintenance data, prioritize work, and use CMMS tools effectively for planning and reporting
- Knowledge of safety regulations, codes, and compliance standards applicable to facilities maintenance (OSHA, environmental, and institutional policies)
- Strong knowledge of principles, tools, and techniques of troubleshooting and repair in one or more of the following: HVAC, plumbing, electrical, mechanic, or carpentry related general trade.
- Exceptional organization skills and strong computer and tablet skills
- Knowledge of the types and uses of safety equipment and/or climbing equipment, such as protective clothing, breathing apparatus, ladders, scaffolds, staging, rigging, etc.
- Ability to teach and train technicians on procedures and methods across various systems
- Ability to establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with others.
- Ability to organize records and prioritize work orders
- Ability to handle multiple tasks at the same time.
- Valid Driver’s License
- Ability to obtain other certifications as job requires
- Ability to stand for prolonged periods of time Ability to lift and carry heavy objects of 50 or more pounds
- Ability to work in confined spaces and work from ladders and scaffolds
- Mechanical aptitude and manual dexterity
- Physical stamina and endurance
- Ability to work externally in various weather conditions, including below freezing temperatures or rain/snow.
- Ability to traverse uneven ground and use ladders and stairs to reach work zone
- Routinely lift 25 pounds and occasionally lift up to 50 pounds.
- Visual acuity is required
- Work can be indoors or outdoors in varying weather conditions
- May be exposed to noise and noxious fumes with required personal protective equipment
- May be exposed to the hazards of sharp tools and running machinery
- May operate fixed and hand-held power equipment
Founded in 1855, Berea College is nationally recognized as the first coeducational and interracial college in the South. Berea has a longstanding commitment to interracial education and is one of the most racially diverse private liberal arts colleges in the United States. With an emphasis on service to Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls more than 1,500 students from 46 states and U.S. territories and more than 70 countries. Berea College admits students who are unable to afford tuition and provides all of them with a no-tuition promise. Berea’s students excel in the College’s supportive yet demanding academic environment, and most are the first in their families to attend college. As one of only ten federally recognized Work Colleges, all Berea students are expected to work 10-12 hours weekly in various positions across campus. Berea College is also the only institution in Kentucky to receive the 5-Star Rating from Money Magazine, 2025. Washington Monthly has named Berea College the #1 Best College in the nation in its 2025 College Guide. Berea College appears in their rankings as #1 College (overall): Best College for your Tuition (and Tax) Dollars, #1 Best-in Class College, #1 Liberal Arts College and #1 Best Bang for the Buck Southern College.
Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available at www.berea.edu.
Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.
Berea College is always looking for talented, self-motivated individuals to join our team. If you think you are ready to be a part of an exciting team, then we encourage you to continue with this applicant friendly, online job application!
Berea College is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
Our Benefits
Berea College offers a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees and their families including health care, dental, vision, retirement, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability and an Employee Assistance Program. The benefit package also includes access to the Child Development Laboratory for children of College Staff, ages 6 weeks to 6 years, Seabury Center Membership, Staff Development Funds and Tuition Reimbursement.
Eligible staff employees also receive paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave.
Part-time employees who work an average of 24 hours per week over the course of a year, receive benefits on a pro-rated basis.
To learn more details, visit our benefits page at https://www.berea.edu/human-resources/employee-benefits.
Our Unique Culture
Berea College strives to be a place where people with various Christian interpretations, different religious traditions, and no religious traditions work together in support of Berea's Great Commitments.
Over the past century, various leaders of the College have applied the College’s inclusive scriptural foundation and spirit to their expanding world and welcomed those whose beliefs were consistent with the Christian gospel of impartial love. Therefore, Berea College today affirms its inclusive Christian tradition even as it respects the traditions of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus, as well as other faiths, and those holding no religious beliefs. We strive not to ignore our differences, but rather seek to understand each other honestly and respectfully, and together create a climate where anyone can openly discuss what they believe without fear of sanction. To that end, all persons who are willing to share in the spirit and the work of the Great Commitments as shaped by its preamble are welcome to study, to teach, and to work at Berea
Labor Supervision
In support of Berea College’s great commitments, staff and faculty serve as labor supervisors. Our fourth great commitment, The Dignity of Labor, promotes learning and serving in community through the student Labor Program, honoring the dignity and utility of all work, mental and manual, and taking pride in work well done. Student Labor Supervision includes scheduling, assigning, and approving student work, developing students' workplace acumen, and providing tangible work experience. To learn more about the labor program office please see the following link Labor Program Office.