Buildings & Grounds Supervisor

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The Job Details are as follows:
Responsible for the physical facilities consisting of 675,000 square feet in five (5) building complexes situated on 100 acres.

Provides technical expertise in the following areas; high voltage and low voltage switching equipment; HVAC; heating boilers; UPS equipment; general office equipment and kitchen equipment.

Has maintenance responsibilities for Building Automation system, security equipment (cameras), lawn equipment and company vehicles.

Plans, organize, directs and participates in the activities of the Facility Maintenance Technicians to complete assigned tasks.

Assist the Facilities Manager in compiling, controlling and making recommendations to the operating and capital improvement budgets.

Responsible for providing for a safe and highly reliable environment to support OCLC business operation.

Works with equipment within OCLC campus, i.e., electrical, HVAC.

OCLC’s 24X7 operation mandates a high level of attention to detail and extreme caution is to be taken in carrying out theses duties – there is very little room for error in this environment without significant impact to staff safety or corporate operations.

Must be able to work with a wide variety of equipment and documentation from different vendors.

Must be responsive to all requests.

Incumbent is expected to maintain a state-of-the-art knowledge of building technologies and their use within OCLC campus facility through on-the-job training and regular participation in corporate-sponsored continuing education programs.

Responsibilities:



* Provides daily organization, planning, supervision and direction to the Facility Maintenance Technician staff by assigning various jobs, assuring instructions are understood and performing follow-up action where appropriate.


* Directly involved in maintaining and/or repairing a vast array of building mechanical equipment and systems as necessary and in an on going basis with specific priority to the data center operations.

Maintains a log of all trouble areas and assigns priorities to the work force, completes requested work in a minimal time frame.

Confers with the Facilities Manager on serious and critical problems.
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