Facilities Specialist

Position Summary

You Help Make Every School Day Possible.
Before children can learn, classrooms have to be safe, clean, functional, and ready. As a Facilities Specialist, your work behind the scenes helps make it possible for Head Start classrooms to open their doors each day and for teachers to focus on what matters most: serving children and families.

This is a hands-on position involving building maintenance, repairs, preventative maintenance, groundskeeping, and facility setup. From electrical, plumbing, and HVAC to carpentry, painting, flooring, and landscaping, you’ll help keep our facilities operating safely and reliably.

The work can be physically demanding and requires flexibility, problem-solving, and the ability to work independently. But at the end of the day, you can see the difference your work makes. When our classrooms are ready, our teachers can teach, our children can learn, and our families can count on us.

Essential Functions

• Perform routine and preventative maintenance throughout agency facilities
  Agency transportation is provided for required travel between facilities during working hours.

• Identify and help resolve sanitation, equipment, and building maintenance concerns

• Complete minor electrical work involving lights, receptacles, wiring, conduit, and breakers

• Perform general plumbing repairs, including fixtures, toilets, flush valves, cleanouts, and clogged drains

• Assist with basic HVAC and refrigeration maintenance, inspections, and filter changes

• Complete carpentry, drywall, painting, flooring, and minor masonry repairs

• Operate pressure washers, floor scrubbers, carpet-cleaning machines, buffers, and other power equipment

• Maintain tools, equipment, materials, and facility supplies

• Help prepare classrooms and facilities for meetings, conferences, events, and other activities

• Maintain grass, trees, plants, flowers, bushes, and sprinkler systems

• Pick-up and deliver supplies when assigned

• Coordinate daily work schedules and priorities with the Facilities Coordinator

• Work independently and with contractors to complete assigned projects

• Attend safety meetings, training, and required certification classes

• Perform other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Healthcare coverage through the State of Tennessee, with UETHDA covering 100% of the monthly premium for employee-only plans

• Healthcare and personal leave accrued monthly

• Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System retirement plan

• Employer-paid group term life insurance

• Additional voluntary life insurance options

• Dental, vision, short-term disability, and long-term disability options

• Additional 401(k) and 457 savings plans available

• Paid holidays

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• High school diploma or GED

• At least one year of experience in general building maintenance, repair, carpentry, electrical work, plumbing, or a related combination of experience

• Facilities maintenance or a related certification is highly preferred

• General knowledge of carpentry, painting, and building maintenance

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Effective written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to lift at least 50 pounds and perform work involving standing, stooping, bending, crawling, climbing, and reaching

• Valid Tennessee driver’s license, proof of automobile insurance, and a clean driving record

• Willingness to travel throughout UETHDA’s eight-county service area

Equal Opportunity Employer

UETHDA hires high-quality staff from a variety of fields and education levels who have a passion for changing the lives of others. UETHDA is an equal opportunity employer.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time, non-exempt position paid hourly. The typical schedule is 37.5 hours per week, 52 weeks per year, Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Salary Based 100% on Education/Degree

$17.00 hourly for high school education 

$19.61 hourly for technical degree/certification in related facilities area – building/carpentry/electrical/HVAC