Building Manager

Project Renewal Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 53,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Project Renewal Inc. is hiring a Building Manager for the Willow Tree Residence in New York City. This live-in position requires overseeing building maintenance, directing custodial staff, and ensuring a safe environment. Candidates must possess a Bachelor’s degree and relevant supervisory experience. A Fire Guard certification and OSHA credentials are preferred.

Join a leading non-profit organization committed to creating supportive communities for individuals facing homelessness and health challenges.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 4 years of experience in building maintenance and management.
• Experience supervising maintenance or custodial workers.
• Certifications in fire safety and OSHA compliance are essential.

Responsibilities

• Supervise custodial staff and ensure building maintenance.
• Manage repairs and completion of capital improvement projects.
• Respond to emergencies on a 24/7 basis.

Skills

Building maintenance

Staff supervision

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Computer proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Case management software

Job description

Shelter- Willow Tree, 225 E 45th St, New York, New York, United States of America

Job Description

Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 4:00 AM

Project Renewal is a leading non-profit organization with the mission of building supportive communities where people achieve dignity and independence, renewing their lives with health, homes, and jobs. Our comprehensive and integrated 24/7 programs are designed to offer the holistic care our clients need. With a staff of 950+ and an annual budget of $140 million, Project Renewal is one of the larger social service nonprofits in New York City.

Title: Building Manager (Live in position)

Program: Willow Tree Residence

Salary Range: $53,000-$56,000

Program Description:

Willow Tree Residenceis a 130-unit congregate care supportive housing program located in East Midtown Manhattan. The facility is unique in that it is co-located with a women’s shelter that occupies the first 6 floors of a 21-story building and offers a street facing Article 28 clinic on the first floor dedicated to providing primary and behavioral health care services. Willow Tree provides 79 permanent, supportive housing units for chronically homeless single adults and/or adult families with a serious mental illness [SMI], a substance use disorder [SUD], or those who may have a co-occurring SMI and SUD. Candidates are referred through the Department of Homeless services [DHS]; however, the facility is funded by DOHMH. The remaining 51 units are “fair market” and reserved for low-income tenants, referred from the local community.

Overall Responsibilities:

Under the general direction of the Program Director, and the Assistant Director and/or Director of Facilities with latitude for independent action and decision making, the Building Manager is responsible for hands‑on involvement and direction of the custodial staff in performing all repair and maintenance work in the interior and, as needed, the exterior of the building, ensuring that all building equipment is functioning properly to provide a safe, clean, sanitary and code compliant facility for clients and staff; coordinating the performance and completion of any capital improvement projects with the appropriate staff: performs related work.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The essential duties of the Building Manager include, but are not limited to, the following activities:

• Supervises, directs, demonstrates for, and works with the custodial staff and facilities team members to perform daily tasks in response to work requests from staff and clients
• Provides on‑site training to custodial staff to enable them to properly perform the myriad of work to be completed
• Responsible for handling small repairs in tenant units.
• Ensure that staff maintain the conditions on the exterior of the building
• Coordinates the completion of all the work to be done in the facility in anticipation of thorough inspections
• Responsible for turning over units in a timely manner.
• Oversee the proper functioning of the building’s boiler, ensuring that any needed repairs are completed as quickly as possible and that all inspections are performed and recorded
• Monitors the use of the technical contracts that have been issued for selected repair and maintenance work, utilizing these when emergencies occur, especially plumbing and electrical situations
• Ensures that any repair work being done by outside contractors is monitored and inspected prior to the work being accepted and processed for payment
• Prepares requisitions for supplies and equipment and maintains an adequate inventory so staff can have the needed goods and materials to perform the requested work.
• Routinely checks all areas of the facility to prevent the issuance of any violations by staff from any city or state agencies
• Completes corrective action plans for all building/maintenance inspection citations issued against the facility
• Available to respond to emergencies on a 24/7/365 basis, especially after normal work hours, weekends, and holidays

Physical Activities:

While performing the duties of this position, the Building Manager must be able to walk between the fourteen floors of the facility to meet building needs. The Building Manager also walks the exterior of the facility to ensure that a proper appearance is being maintained. Furthermore, the Building Manager must stand to talk to staff, sit for extended periods of time at the computer, bend, reach, or squat to get records from the files or when addressing building needs, climb and work from ladders of 10 to 12 feet in height, and lift a minimum of 30lbs.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of four (4) years of progressively responsible experience working in building maintenance, repair, and management, including at least one (1) year of experience supervising maintenance or custodial workers, or
• Associate’s degree with a minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience, including two (2) years of experience supervising maintenance or custodial workers, or
• High School Diploma or equivalent and a minimum of six (6) years of progressively responsible experience, including three (3) years’ experience supervising maintenance or custodial workers
• Bilingual or multilingual a plus

Certificates and Credentials:

• A Fire Guard certification-F-02 or Fire Safety Coordinator F-80, Certificate of Fitness for Standpipe/Sprinkler Maintenance, S-12 and S-13 , S95, P99, OSHA 10 AND OSHA 30

Preferred Skills:

• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to manage and motivate staff to accomplish stated program goals and objectives while developing their individual and group skills.
• Team building: Ability to develop and foster, through demonstration, team spirit, enabling staff to overcome the challenges of providing services needed to a special client population.
• Communication: Excellent oral, writing, and listening skills are a must.
• Organizational: The ability to work well within a highly pressurized, deadline environment, while meeting the short- and long-term mandates of the program.
• Interpersonal: An ability to interface with clients as well as all levels of staff.
• Computer: Knowledge of case management software as well as proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and work order systems.

Project Renewal is an equal opportunity employer. Its long-standing policy has been to embrace the equality of opportunity for all employees and applicants without regard to actual or perceived race, color, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, religion or creed, gender (see separately issued Gender Discrimination policy for more detail), physical or mental disability, age (18 and over), military status, arrest record, marital status, domestic partnership status, genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic, sexual orientation, status as a victim or witness of domestic violence, sex offenses or stalking, unemployment status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws.

Shelter- Willow Tree, 225 E 45th St, New York, New York, United States of America