Custodial Services Supervisor

Job Title: Custodial Services Supervisor Department: Custodial Services Classification: Exempt Grade: 12 FTE/Working Schedule: 1.0

Position Overview:

Carleton College welcomes applications for the position of Custodial Services Supervisor. The Custodial Services Supervisor is responsible for supervising a team of custodians early morning and daytime hours. This position ensures that buildings are maintained daily to support academic, student life, and administrative needs and programs by supporting the service request process, anticipating campus needs, and proactively supporting the campus events calendar.

This is a full-time, 12-month, exempt staff position that is eligible for the colleges benefits package.

Compensation:

The expected starting salary range for this position is between $75,800 and $78,400. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility.

Essential Job Functions/Responsibilities:

• Implements and oversees a comprehensive custodial program based on industry best practices that emphasizes planned and scheduled work and preventive maintenance activities while delivering excellent customer service to building occupants. • Provides daily supervision and support to custodial staff, including:

• Prioritizes and assigns work as required.
• Gives direction to custodial staff on job scope and approves course of action as needed.
• Routinely reviews work on site to ensure work was completed properly.
• Performs daily building inspections. • Hires custodial staff, performs annual performance reviews, approves employee time, and leave requests. • Develops and maintains a highly skilled, motivated, and effective work team. Conducts regular staff meetings to maintain open communication channels throughout the department. • Monitors and improves custodial measures, responds to information contained in custodial costs, emergency response, and customer service response. • Uses the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to track work orders, prioritize and assign work, maintain history of building custodial activities, analyze and resolve recurring problems, and identify opportunities to maintain facility assets more efficiently. • Works with other operational staff and CMMS data to provide necessary inventory, tools, and equipment to ensure cost effective delivery of service. • Ensures compliance with regulatory required custodial activities and practices. Maintains and enforces compliance with safety programs and safe operating procedures. Coordinates and provides training to staff as required. Maintains records and documents as needed. • Works with the custodial leadership team to reduce waste costs and support the Colleges zero waste goals by reducing contamination rates of recycling and compost through process improvement and education.

Supervision Received and Exercised:

• This position hires, supervises, and evaluates custodial staff.

Education/Experience/Skills:

Required:

• A.A degree and 5 years of professional experience closely related custodial experience, or 7+ years of professional experience of closely related custodial experience. • Five years of experience supervising staff. • Possesses and ability to maintain a valid Minnesota drivers license and insurability as determined by the College insurance provider. • Ability to work as a team with others in the Facilities Department by communicating custodial activities and schedules, informing of staff needs and changes, supporting goals and objectives of the other units within Facilities, and being a resource others value. • Ability to develop a positive work environment for the team they are responsible to supervise. • Ability to work and communicate effectively at all levels within the College. • Ability to work with a computerized maintenance management system, including reporting and data gathering. • Has knowledge or the ability to gain knowledge of a zero-waste program.

Preferred:

• Prefer experience supervising employees in a union environment. Experience in a higher education setting is a plus.

Must have the ability to understand and follow written and oral work instructions, operations, safety procedures, and hazardous labels.

Note: This position description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employees may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

Review of applications begins immediately and continues until the hire is complete. We accept only online applications.

Carleton College is an AA/EEO Employer: We are committed to developing our staff to better reflect the diversity of our student body and American society. Members of underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

Carleton also offers a robust suite of benefits including: A generous 403(b) retirement plan with a 10% employer contribution and 2% employee contribution. Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance. Paid time-off, including 25 annual leave days, 8 paid holidays, and extra days at the end of the calendar year to make a continuous week off before New Years. Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for all employees. A dependent tuition program after six years of service.

Founded in 1866, Carleton College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of roughly 2,000 students located in the historic river town of Northfield, Minnesota. Carleton College occupies more than 1,000 scenic acres of campus, arboretum, over 100 campus buildings, and athletic fields. Located 40 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Carleton offers access to the cultural advantages of a major metropolitan area.