MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR
To land Maintenance Supervisor in New Jersey you go through the competitive route: you sit an announced exam and the score puts you on the eligible list agencies hire from.
To be eligible you bring 5 years of relevant experience and a commercial driver's license.
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Maintenance Supervisor is a local service title. It is filled by the counties, municipalities, authorities and other employers that have adopted civil service under Title 11A, not by State departments. Those employers set pay by ordinance or contract rather than from a State salary schedule, which is why most local titles carry no salary range here.
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Official job specification
The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator. Source: the official specification page at NJ CSC.
Definition
Under direction, supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in maintaining and repairing the physical structure of buildings and utility systems, and in maintaining buildings and grounds in a clean, orderly condition; does other related duties.
Examples of work
- Supervises workers engaged in painting and performing structural repairs to masonry, woodwork, and furnishings of buildings and similar structures.
- Supervises workers engaged in maintaining and repairing building utility systems such as electrical wiring and controls, heating, cooling, ventilating, and steam generating systems.
- Supervises workers engaged in maintaining and repairing plumbing systems.
- Supervises workers engaged in mowing lawns, trimming, raking, and burning leaves and refuse, and cleaning building interiors.
- May supervise workers engaged in installing, servicing, and repairing mechanical equipment.
- Plans and supervises maintenance and repair programs.
- Assigns workers to specific tasks.
- Reviews work progress.
- Reviews completed assignments for conformance with trade practices, blueprints, and other specifications.
- Supervises the maintenance, repair, and servicing of the central heating plant, mechanical equipment, gas, electric, plumbing, and/or sewage lines, pipes, and fixtures, kitchen ranges/refrigerators, and other equipment or accessories.
- Recommends improvements, alternations, and repairs, and prepares plans, detailed drawings and work estimates.
- Maintains records on materials, supplies, equipment, time, and nature and type of work performed.
- Provides information used to prepare budget estimates.
- Provides recommendations for improvements, additions, and other actions involving the operation, care, maintenance, and repair of buildings, equipment, and/or grounds.
- Requisitions, receives, accounts for, stores, and issues materials and supplies.
- Prepares and checks specifications for bids, supplies, and equipment.
- Provides assignments and instructions to maintenance workers, laborers, and other employees in the general operation, maintenance, cleaning, and repair functions and activities of buildings, and supervises their performance.
- Prepares reports.
- Establishes and maintains records and files.
- Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
Experience
Five (5) years of experience in work involving the construction or repair and maintenance of building and grounds, two (2) years of which shall have been in a supervisory capacity.
License
Applicants may be required to possess a valid license as an Operating Engineer of the appropriate grade, issued by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs.
Appointees must possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey.
Appointees may also be required to possess a valid Commercial Driver's License (CDL) and applicable endorsements for the class and type of vehicle being operated.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Knowledge of the tools, materials and methods used in the repair and maintenance of buildings, grounds and related structures.
- Knowledge of the methods used to evaluate completed maintenance and repair work.
- Knowledge of methods used to obtain, store, safeguard and distribute equipment, materials, and supplies.
- Ability to evaluate completed maintenance and repair assignments.
- Ability to identify and analyze maintenance and repair problems.
- Ability to requisition, store, issue and safeguard equipment, materials and supplies.
- Ability to supervise the maintenance, repair and servicing of buildings and equipment.
- Ability to provide assignments and instructions to staff and to supervise their work.
- Ability to maintain records.
- Ability to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
- Ability to read, write, speak, understand, and communicate in English sufficiently to perform duties of this position. American Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of communication.
- Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.
Note
The examples of work for this title are for illustrative purposes only. A particular position using this title may not perform all duties listed in this job specification. Conversely, all duties performed on the job may not be listed.
The responsibility for ensuring that employees possess the required motor vehicle license, commensurate with the class and type of vehicles they operate, rests with the Appointing Authority.