Maintenance Director

Purpose of Your Job Position

The primary purpose of your job position is to plan, organize, develop, and direct the overall operation of the Maintenance Department in accordance with current federal, state and local standards, guidelines, and regulations governing our facility, and as may be directed by the Administrator, to assure that our facility is maintained in a safe and comfortable manner.

Delegation of Authority

As a Director of Maintenance Services, you are delegated the authority, responsibility, and accountability necessary for carrying out your assigned duties.

Job Functions

Every effort has been made to identify the essential functions of this position. However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or is an essential function of the position.

Duties and Responsibilities Administrative Functions

• Plan, develop, organize, implement, evaluate, and direct the Maintenance Department, its programs and activities.
• Adhere to maintenance policies and procedures.
• Interpret the department’s policies and procedures to employees, patients, visitors, government agencies, etc.
• Assume the administrative authority, responsibility, and accountability of directing the Maintenance Department.
• Coordinate maintenance services and activities with other related departments
• (i.e., Dietary, Nursing, etc.).
• Make written oral reports/recommendations to the Administrator as necessary/ required concerning the operation of the Maintenance Department.
• Assist in establishing a preventive maintenance program.
• Submit accident/incident reports to the Business Office within twenty-four (24)
• hours after their occurrence.
• Assist the Infection Control Coordinator in identifying, evaluating, and classi-fying
• routine and job related maintenance functions to ensure that tasks
• involving the potential exposure to blood/body fluids are properly identified and recorded.
• Inspect storage rooms, work rooms, utility/janitorial closets, etc., for upkeep
• and supply control.
• Participate in facility surveys (inspections) made by authorized government
• agencies.
• Review and develop a plan of correction for maintenance deficiencies noted
• during survey inspections and provide a written copy of such to the Admin-istrator.
• Keep abreast of economic conditions/situations and recommend to the Admin-istrator adjustments in maintenance services that assure the continued ability
• to provide a clean, safe and comfortable environment.
• Perform administrative duties such as completing necessary forms, reports,
• evaluations, studies, etc., to assure control of equipment and supplies.
• Ensure that outside services are properly completed/supervised in accordance with contracts/work orders.
• Delegate a responsible staff member to act in your behalf when you are absent from the facility.

Committee Functions

• Serve on various committees of the facility (i.e., Infection Control, Safety, QA, etc.) and provide written/oral reports of maintenance services and activities as required by the committee’s guidelines or direction.
• Evaluate and implement recommendations from established committees.

Personnel Functions

• Meet with maintenance personnel, on a regularly scheduled basis, and solicit advice from interdepartment supervisors concerning the operation of the maintenance department, assist in identifying and correcting problem areas, and/or the improvement of services.
• Attend department head meetings, etc., as scheduled or as may be called.
• Determine departmental staffing requirements necessary to meet the maintenance department’s needs.
• Assist in the recruitment, interviewing, and selection of maintenance personnel.
• Schedule department work hours (including vacation and holiday schedules), personnel, work assignments, etc., to expedite work.
• Delegate administrative authority, responsibility, and accountability to other maintenance personnel as deemed necessary to perform their assigned duties.
• Counsel/discipline maintenance personnel fairly as requested or as necessary, including employment termination documenting and coordinating such actions with the Personnel Director and/or Administrator.
• Review complaints and grievances made or filed by department personnel and provide complaint/ grievance reports to the Administrator as required or as may be necessary.

Staff Development Functions

• Conduct departmental performance evaluations in accordance with the facility’s policies and procedures.
• Maintain a productive working relationship with other department supervisors and coordinate maintenance services to assure that services can be performed without interruption.
• Make daily rounds to assure that maintenance personnel are performing required duties and to assure that appropriate maintenance procedures are being rendered to meet the needs of the facility.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest, and positive emphasis as well as a calm environment throughout the facility.
• Develop and participate in the planning, conducting, scheduling, etc., of in-service training classes, onthe-job training and orientation programs for maintenance personnel.
• Assume the responsibility for maintaining your professional competence through participation in programs of continuing education (i.e., seminars, training programs, etc.).
• Ensure that all maintenance personnel attend and participate in all in-services, including annual OSHA
• and CDC in-service training programs for hazard communication, TB management, and blood borne pathogens standard.

Work Location: In person

Salary : $53,730 - $84,072