Facilities Manager (please apply via website link below)

Chapel Hill Bible Church; Chapel Hill (NC); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Chapel Hill Bible Church in Chapel Hill, NC is seeking a Facilities Manager to steward campus facilities and grounds, ensuring readiness for worship, ministry, and community use. This role combines hands-on maintenance leadership with team-building—staff, vendors, and volunteers—and oversight of HVAC, electrical, plumbing, security, and grounds.

Responsibilities include budgeting, compliance with safety standards, and partnering with ministry leaders to support programs while maintaining

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred; relevant certifications in facilities management, safety, or skilled trades are a plus.
• Experience leading facilities, operations, management, or ministry support.
• Competence in facility systems and operations, balancing hands-on involvement with delegation.

Responsibilities

• Providing overall leadership for Facilities, aligning all work with the mission of CHBC.
• Overseeing operations, maintenance, and stewardship of a 79,000-square-foot church building and 31-acre campus, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, lighting, security, fire systems, utilities, and grounds.
• Directing preventative, corrective, and long-term capital maintenance to keep facilities safe, reliable, welcoming, and sustainable.
• Ensuring compliance with all applicable building, fire, life-safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Supervising Facilities staff and discern, assemble, and lead the best combination of staff, vendors, contractors, and volunteers to meet Facilities-related needs.
• Stewarding the Facilities budget and church resources, ensuring wise and effective use of the financial, physical, and operational resources God has provided.
• Overseeing building use, event scheduling, security systems, emergency preparedness, and serve as a primary point of contact for facility-related emergencies.
• Partnering with ministry leaders to ensure facilities effectively support church programs, events, and ministry activities while maintaining readiness for ministry use.
• Developing, implementing, and maintaining Facilities-related policies, procedures, and standards.
• Maintaining professional and technical knowledge through ongoing education, training, workshops, and professional development.

Skills

Leadership

Facilities management

Budgeting

Maintenance planning

Communication

Computer skills

Delegation

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree (preferred)

Facilities certifications (plus)

Tools

Basecamp

Google Workspace

Microsoft Office

Job description

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The successful candidate will fit one or both of the two Facilities Manager profiles below.

• A Doer - a craftsman with broad technical skills in the facilities arena.
• A Delegator - a person skilled in assembling and managing the necessary team (staff, vendors, volunteers) to get the job done well.

OVERVIEW

Our mission at Chapel Hill Bible Church is to equip our church as a community to reach the Triangle and beyond with the message of Jesus. The Facilities Manager role exists to steward the church’s buildings and grounds as a sacred trust for the glory of God and the advancement of the gospel. The Manager ensures that the campus is fully prepared for worship, ministry, and community use by overseeing all operations, maintenance, and planning. Working within the Ministry Operations team, the Facilities Manager provides environments where ministry can flourish by leading with excellence, foresight, and faithfulness.

Responsibilities:

• Providing overall leadership for Facilities, aligning all work with the mission of CHBC.
• Overseeing operations, maintenance, and stewardship of a 79,000-square-foot church building and 31-acre campus, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, lighting, security, fire systems, utilities, and grounds.
• Directing preventative, corrective, and long-term capital maintenance to keep facilities safe, reliable, welcoming, and sustainable.
• Ensuring compliance with all applicable building, fire, life-safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Supervising Facilities staff and discern, assemble, and lead the best combination of staff, vendors, contractors, and volunteers to meet Facilities-related needs.
• Stewarding the Facilities budget and church resources, ensuring wise and effective use of the financial, physical, and operational resources God has provided.
• Overseeing building use, event scheduling, security systems, emergency preparedness, and serve as a primary point of contact for facility-related emergencies.
• Partnering with ministry leaders to ensure facilities effectively support church programs, events, and ministry activities while maintaining readiness for ministry use.
• Developing, implementing, and maintaining Facilities-related policies, procedures, and standards.
• Maintaining professional and technical knowledge through ongoing education, training, workshops, and professional development.

Skills & characteristics:

• Growing relationship with Jesus Christ; understanding of the centrality of the gospel and commitment to the purpose and mission of the local church as understood by CHBC; membership at CHBC (existing or first available membership class upon employment) is required.
• Servant-hearted team player who is willing to collaborate, adapt, and support others.
• Demonstrated leadership with the ability to manage people, projects, and resources effectively.
• Strong fiscal stewardship mindset to faithfully manage the financial and physical resources God has provided.
• Competence in facility systems and operations, balancing hands-on involvement with delegation.
• Proactive problem solver with flexibility, good judgment, and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Clear, collaborative communicator with a grace-filled presence when handling interruptions, urgent needs, and confidential information.
• Dependable, punctual, detail-oriented, and organized with strong followthrough.
• Strong computer proficiency and ability to learn unfamiliar systems (Microsoft Office, Google Suite, Basecamp).
• Basic knowledge of maintenance trades, including HVAC, carpentry, painting, plumbing, and electrical systems.
• Previous leadership experience in facilities, operations, management, or ministry support preferred.
• Bachelor's degree preferred; relevant certifications in facilities management, safety, or skilled trades are a plus.

Expected hours:

• Full-Time: Sun-Th or Mon-Fri (first point of contact for emergencies)

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