Facilities Supervisor- Maintenance

WeGo Transit; Nashville (TN); Presencial; USD 65.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

WeGo Transit in Nashville, TN, seeks a Facilities Maintenance Supervisor to plan, schedule, and lead daily maintenance of passenger facilities and O&M buildings, ensuring safety, cleanliness, and in-service status for customers.

The role leads facilities technicians across sites, manages preventive maintenance programs, coordinates with Operations, and oversees contracts and minor projects while upholding safety standards and ADA accessibility.

Formación

• High school diploma or equivalent with five years of facility maintenance experience.
• Two years in a lead or supervisory role and hands-on troubleshooting of building systems.
• Transit or public-facility experience and supervision under a collective bargaining agreement preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Supervise daily work of facilities technicians across multiple sites.
• Oversee preventive maintenance for HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and life-safety systems.
• Maintain safety, accessibility, and cleanliness of passenger facilities.
• Coordinate with Operations and ensure ADA accessibility and safety compliance.
• Oversee contracts, procurement, and small repair projects; monitor spending and budgets.
• Respond to facility emergencies and after-hours callouts.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Troubleshooting

Planning & organization

Communication

Educación

High school diploma or equivalent

Descripción del empleo

Overview:

Under the direction of the Facilities Maintenance Manager, plans, schedules, and supervises the daily maintenance and repair of agency facilities and equipment, including public-facing passenger facilities (transit centers, stations, and park-and-rides) and operations and maintenance (O&M) facilities (bus garages, shops, fueling and wash systems, and administrative buildings). Provides first-line leadership to facilities technicians and ensures that passenger facilities are safe, clean, accessible, and in service for customers and that O&M facilities and shop equipment are available to support daily service.

Responsibilities:

This list indicates the general nature and level of work performed and is not an exhaustive listing of all tasks required of employees assigned to this job.

• Supervision: Plans, assigns, and directs the daily work of facilities technicians across multiple sites, setting priorities by safety, customer impact, and service criticality. Participates in hiring, training, coaching, and progressive discipline consistent with the collective bargaining agreement, and supports the grievance process. Manages schedules, attendance, timekeeping, and overtime, and inspects completed work.
• Preventive maintenance and repair: Carries out the preventive maintenance program for buildings, grounds, and equipment, including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, building automation, fire and life-safety systems, generators, roofs, and doors. Troubleshoots building systems, including programmable logic controllers, and determines whether repairs are done in-house or by contractors. Responds to facility emergencies, outages, and severe weather, including after-hours callouts.
• Passenger facilities: Maintains passenger facilities to agency standards for safety, cleanliness, and appearance, including waiting areas, platforms, bus bays, restrooms, lighting, signage, and landscaping. Ensures prompt response to graffiti, vandalism, biohazards, and customer-reported conditions.
• Accessibility: Keeps elevators, escalators, automatic doors, ramps, and other accessible features in working order under ADA requirements (49 CFR Part 37); ensures prompt repair, reports outages, and coordinates required inspections.
• Work in public spaces: Coordinates bay, platform, and area closures with Operations, Customer Care, and Security, with work areas barricaded and customer notices posted.
• O&M facilities: Maintains shop and yard equipment needed for daily service, including vehicle lifts, cranes and hoists, compressed air, fluid distribution, overhead doors, bus washers, and oil-water separators, along with fueling systems, storage tanks, and vehicle charging infrastructure where installed. Keeps required inspections current and coordinates work with Fleet Maintenance and Operations to protect service pull-out.
• Safety and environmental compliance: Enforces agency safety policies and OSHA and TOSHA requirements, including lockout/tagout, confined space, fall protection, and electrical safety. Conducts safety briefings, investigates incidents, and reports hazards through the agency’s Safety Management System. Carries out hazardous materials, hazardous waste, spill prevention, and storm water procedures.
• Asset management and reporting: Documents all work in the agency’s enterprise asset management (EAM) system and reports on key performance indicators such as preventive maintenance on-time completion, work order backlog, and elevator availability. Supports the Transit Asset Management (TAM) program through facility condition assessments, asset records, and warranty tracking, and maintains records for FTA reviews.
• Contracts, procurement, and projects: Oversees the daily work of maintenance contractors and reviews invoices. Requests materials and services under agency and FTA procurement requirements, monitors spending, and provides budget input. Plans and monitors minor repair projects and coordinates with State of Good Repair staff on larger projects.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

High school diploma or equivalent and five years of progressively responsible experience in commercial or industrial facilities maintenance, including two years in a lead or supervisory role and hands-on troubleshooting of building systems (HVAC, electrical, plumbing, or fueling). A related degree, technical certificate, or apprenticeship may substitute for up to two years of experience. Transit or public-facility experience and supervising under a collective bargaining agreement are preferred.

Licenses and Certifications:

Valid driver’s license and acceptable driving record. Ability to obtain agency- required certifications after hire, such as OSHA 30-hour and storage tank operator training. A trade certification in HVAC, electrical, or plumbing (such as EPA Section 608) is preferred, not required.

Knowledge of:

• Methods, codes, tools, and materials used to maintain, repair, and alter facilities and equipment.
• HVAC, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and building automation systems, and transit facility equipment such as vehicle lifts, bus washers, fueling systems, elevators, and escalators.
• OSHA and TOSHA regulations, Safety Data Sheets (SDS), fire and life-safety codes, ADA accessibility requirements, and environmental requirements for hazardous materials, storage tanks, and storm water.
• Preventive maintenance practices and computerized maintenance management systems.
• Supervision and training in a union environment, including collective bargaining agreements.

Ability to:

• Provide training, work direction, and guidance to technicians across multiple worksites.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot problems in building systems, equipment, and fueling operations.
• Plan and organize work, meet schedules, and make sound decisions in emergencies.
• Communicate effectively with staff, contractors, other departments, and the public, and use computers to document work and prepare reports.

Working Conditions/Physical Activities:

• Work in office, shop, yard, and public facility environments, indoors and outdoors in all weather.
• Regular exposure to moving vehicles, machinery, noise, fumes, fuels, chemicals, electrical hazards, and biohazards; personal protective equipment is required.
• Frequent walking, standing, bending, kneeling, and climbing stairs and ladders; work at heights and in confined spaces.
• Lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds; driving agency vehicles between work sites.
• Availability for on-call response and work outside normal hours, including nights, weekends, holidays, and severe weather.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.