Facilities Trades Operations Supervisor

Sacramento County, CA; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Sacramento County is seeking a Facilities Trades Operations Supervisor to oversee carpentry, electrical, painting, and plumbing teams, ensuring quality, safety, and policy compliance. The role involves supervising staff, planning workloads, and coordinating with other departments.

The ideal candidate has extensive supervisory experience in maintenance or construction within public facilities, and can manage budgets, schedules, and blueprints interpretation.

Qualifications

• Three lines of general qualifications: knowledge of supervision, team building, and regulations; ability to supervise staff in building trades; familiarity with budgets and customer service.
• Minimum experience in maintenance/repair/construction in related facilities and ability to supervise teams.

Responsibilities

• Supervise, assign, review, and participate in building trades work.
• Plan and coordinate workloads and priorities for staff.
• Ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and safety standards.
• Investigate and resolve disciplinary issues.
• Monitor budgets and financial documents related to the programs.
• Coordinate with other departments and stakeholders.

Skills

Supervision

Leadership

Team building

Budgeting

Communication

Reading blueprints

Safety compliance

Tools

Word processing

Spreadsheets

Databases

Job description

This is a continuous filing exam. Next filing cut-offs are at 5:00 pm on:

9/2/26, 9/16/26, 10/7/26 (final)

Under direction, the Facilities Trades Operations Supervisor supervises, assigns, reviews, and participates in the work of staff responsible for the building trades; which includes the Carpenter series, the Electrician series, the Painter series, and the Plumber series; ensures work quality and adherence to established policies and procedures; and performs the more technical and complex tasks relative to the assigned area of responsibility.

Knowledge Of:

• Principles and practices of supervision, discipline, leadership, mentoring, and training
• Team dynamics and team building
• Applicable federal, state, and local laws, codes, and regulations applying to the various building trades
• Safety orders and safety practices applying to the various building trades
• Operational characteristics, services, and activities of assigned programs and functions
• Office procedures, methods, and equipment including computers and applicable software applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and other specialized applications related to area of assignment
• English usage, spelling, grammar, and punctuation
• Construction and maintenance practices
• Building support systems including methods and materials used in building construction, maintenance and repair work
• A broad understanding of all trades related technical knowledge and techniques with advanced knowledge, capabilities and techniques in at least one of the four trades.

Ability To:

• Select, supervise, train, and evaluate staff within the various building trades units
• Plan, coordinate, assign, and review the work of subordinate staff
• Investigate and resolve disciplinary issues
• Work independently, prioritize work, coordinate activities and meet critical deadlines
• Monitor and interpret budgets and other financial documents
• Develop and maintain cooperative, effective working relationships with others
• Communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing
• Interpret and apply applicable federal, state, and local laws, codes, and regulations
• Apply customer service skills, including the identification of customer needs and follow up to ensure customer commitments have been met
• Collect and compile a variety of data and information
• Read and interpret blueprints and work from plans and specifications
• Estimate material and labor requirements

Minimum Qualifications

Three years of full time paid experience supervising staff engaged in maintenance, repair, or construction of commercial, water treatment, water resources, airports or water quality facilities.

OR

Six years of full time paid experience as a journeyman electrician, plumber, carpenter or painter. Three years of this experience must have included supervisory responsibilities over maintenance, repair or construction industry staff.

Note: A General Building Contractor license will not be accepted as a substitute for the minimum qualifications stated above.

Note: If the word “experience” is referenced in the minimum qualifications, it means full-time paid experience unless the minimum qualification states that volunteer experience is acceptable. Part-time paid experience may be accumulated and pro-rated to meet the total experience requirements.

GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS

Criminal History and Background Checks: The County may access criminal history information on candidates who have accepted a conditional offer of appointment for this class consistent with the provisions of Board of Supervisors Resolution No. 82-602, Personnel Policies, and applicable federal and state laws. The County shall not consider for employment any candidate who has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor that relates to or impacts the candidate’s ability to perform the job duties of this class unless it is determined that mitigating circumstances exist. For purposes of accessing criminal history information, the candidate will be fingerprinted. A subsequent arrest notification may be obtained.

The County may also conduct a background check on the candidate prior to appointment to a position within this class. The background check may include personal and professional reference checks, credit history checks where authorized by Labor Code section 1024.5, Social Security Number verification, professional license/registration verification, military service information and driving history. Information obtained in the course of this background check will be considered by the appointing authority in the selection process. In obtaining such information, the County will comply with applicable consent and disclosure practices in the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the California Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act.

License Requirement

A valid California Driver License, Class C or higher, may be required at the time of appointment. Failure to obtain or maintain the appropriate California Driver License, or comply with state and federal requirements for utilization, may constitute cause for personnel action in accordance with Civil Service Rules or applicable bargaining agreement. Individuals who do not meet this requirement due to disability will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

Compliance with California Code of Regulations

Positions in this class are required to comply with Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, General Industry Safety Orders, Section 5144, Respiratory Protection (T-8 CCR, GISO, §5144), current County Policy regarding Respiratory Protective Equipment and any departmental policy and training regarding the proper use (clean shaven for proper tight fit of respirator), care and maintenance of respiratory protective equipment.

Physical Requirements

• Carry 15 pounds of equipment for over 100 feet.
• Go up and down flights of stairs and climb a ladder.
• Work in a bent, kneeling, or prone position for over 15 minutes at a time.
• Work while standing or kneeling for extended periods of time, while wearing personal protective equipment.
• Enterand exit through restricted entrances of 30 inches in diameter and work in awkward positions in tight spaces.
• Demonstrate color vision sufficient to distinguishthecolors of electrical wiring.
• Have normal sense of smell and normal or corrected vision and hearing to observe process and equipment functions for normal and abnormal occurrences.
• Have normal sense of touch to detect abnormalities in temperature, flow, and vibration.
• Lift and carry equipment weighing up to 50 pounds without assistance.
• Lift and carry equipment weighing in excess of 50 pounds with assistance.

Individuals who do not meet these requirements due to disability will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

Working Conditions

• Work in variety of locations such as but not limited to prison facilities, mental health care facilities, animal care facilities, and coroner laboratories
• Work outside in all types of climatic conditions including inclement and very hot weather.
• Work in loud or noisy areas
• Work in enclosed tight spaces
• Work alone for extended periods of time
• Work around machinery and equipment with moving parts.
• Work around dust, dirt, fumes and /or odors, contaminated and non-contaminated water
• Work various shifts, overtime, weekends, holidays and non-routine hours.

Probationary Period

The probationary period for this classification is six months.

Sacramento County is about enriching communities to thrive. We strive to create inclusive workplaces that reflect the communities we serve. We value and celebrate the unique perspectives, backgrounds, abilities, and diverse dimensions of our employees and residents. Through transparency, courage, innovation, and trust we are committed to advance equity and transformational change.

We are a proud equal opportunity employer. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability for any phase of the hiring process, please contact our Disability Compliance Office at [e-mail] or 916-874-7642, CA Relay 711. For more information, visit: Reasonable Accommodation Requests - Job Applicant Instructions.