What are the responsibilities and job description for the Facilities - Maintenance Area Manager position at Knott's Berry Farm?
Job Summary
The Facilities - Maintenance Area Manager is responsible for overseeing maintenance activities to ensure the park's infrastructure and attractions operate safely and efficiently. This includes leading a team of maintenance professionals, developing maintenance schedules, and liaising with other departments to promptly address any facility issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and lead the paint, sign, carpenter shops for a large amusement park, aquatic park, and facility systems, emphasizing total team leadership covering other trades such as Plumbing, Garage, and HVAC shops when functional leadership is not present or when assistance is needed.
- Plan and direct work staff, including training, assigning, scheduling, and reviewing work, evaluating work performance, coordinating activities, maintaining standards, allocating personnel, selecting new Associates, acting on Associate problems. Manage department staff within the workforce, including coaching, mentoring, and developing staff to reach potential and established goals for the individual and division. Identify and develop Crew Leaders.
- Schedule Associates and assign tasks according to business needs. Coordinate work on multi-craft and multi-divisional and special event projects involving sign, paint, carpentry, electrical, plumbing, machine, mechanical and décor shops. Plan and develop preventative maintenance job plans.
- Lead and develop project/repair estimates that include materials, equipment, contractors, and internal labor personnel required to successfully complete projects. Lead logistics planning by obtaining, storing, safeguarding, distributing, and using equipment, material, and supplies. Lead and interpret construction codes and other regulations, taking corrective actions to resolve operational concerns and improve operational efficiency.
- Lead maintenance throughout a large complex of buildings, rides, restaurants, parking lots, and other facilities. Proactively develop sustainment corrective action plans that package work together in the same land to achieve deploying the tradesmen using an economy of movement that results in highly effective and efficient labor utilization. Lead compliance efforts for SCAQMD, OC Health Food Safety regulations and Pool Safety, OHSA and Cal OSHA.
- Other duties may be assigned.
Requirements
- Full/flexible availability is required.
- Practical experience working in a regulated environment is necessary, along with experience with SCAQMD rules, Food Safety Health Code, Pool Safety.
- A minimum of 6 years of experience at a Supervisor level or equivalent is required (maintenance, supervisor, manager).
- The ability to work nights, weekends, and holiday periods to meet business needs is essential.
- Ability to pass a mandatory (or random) drug test, per Company policy, unless prohibited by state or provincial law.
- Ability to pass a background check, if 18 years of age or older, which may include, but is not limited to, credit, criminal, DMV, previous employment, education, and personal references, per Company policy, unless prohibited by federal, state, or provincial law.
- Certifications:
- Driver's License
