Director, Maintenance

Director, Maintenance

Austin Community College

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000
credit students each Fall and Spring semester. We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement. We
promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher
education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college
committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative
  teaching
• Is attracted by the college’s mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities
• Cares about student
  success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income
  students, and students from underserved communities.
• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate
  outcomes
• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others
• Engages with the community both within and
  outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:
Director, Maintenance

Job Description Summary:
The Director of
Maintenance provides strategic leadership and comprehensive oversight of all campus facilities, ensuring a safe, functional, and
aesthetically pleasing environment conducive to academic excellence. This position directs the daily maintenance, and repair of all college
buildings, grounds, and infrastructure. Key duties include providing dynamic leadership to departmental staff, developing and administering
operating and facilities improvement budgets, ensuring rigorous compliance with all safety and regulatory standards, and executing strategic
short- and long-term maintenance and grounds planning. The position champions operational efficiency through the implementation of robust,
preventative, predictive, and on-demand maintenance programs. This position manages complex contractor relationships and acts as a key
liaison to the broader college community to proactively address facilities needs.

Job Description:

Supervision
Received and Exercised

Reports to an Administrator and collaborates extensively with other department heads and executive
leadership to ensure alignment with college-wide initiatives. This role exercises supervision and oversight over a team of managers and
individual contributors. The Director is responsible for guiding, mentoring, and evaluating performance, fostering a culture of continuous
improvement and professional development.

Competency Expectations

• Provide district-wide leadership for the development
  and on-going support of operational and strategic relationships with community-based organizations and other external partners including,
  but not limited to, community businesses, non-profits and educational partners to support student success initiatives.
• Lead the
  creation and execution of a strategic plan, in concert with leadership from ACC and its partners.
• Plans, develops, recommends, and
  oversees ACC budgets; approves expenditures.
• Develops, writes, and implements operating policies and procedures.
• May
  represent ACC at local community events or in area-specific contexts
• Responsible for all campus operations in the assigned region,
  including hiring, training, supervision, and evaluation of staff; budget development and monitoring; facilities contracts; course
  scheduling; and classroom scheduling and maintenance.

Description of Duties and Tasks

Leadership & Operations
Management:

• Plan, direct, and review all facilities maintenance activities and operations. Provide dynamic leadership,
  mentorship, and supervision directly and through subordinate managers and supervisors to foster a culture of excellence and
  accountability.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the entire district’s facilities maintenance operations, overseeing
  development and evaluation of all departmental programs and service delivery methods.
• Develop, monitor, and report on key
  performance indicators (KPIs) for the maintenance and grounds departments to ensure alignment with institutional goals.
• Verify the
  completion and quality of work orders and maintenance activities to consistently meet departmental goals and service level
  agreements.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for campus emergencies, requiring on-call availability and immediate response during
  after-hours, weekends, holidays, and emergency closures.

Budgeting & Financial Stewardship:

• Develop and monitor
  comprehensive maintenance operations, deferred maintenance, and facilities improvement budgets. Prepare prioritized project lists, oversee
  all expenditures, approve invoice payments, and provide expert input during the annual budget development cycle.

Compliance &
Safety:

• Develop, implement, and enforce rigorous safety and health policies and procedures.
• Ensure strict compliance with
  all relevant local, state, and federal regulations and codes.
• Ensure all employees receive appropriate mandatory safety training,
  and foster a proactive workplace safety culture and facilitate routine safety inspections.

Contract & Project
Management:

• Determine the optimal balance between in-house work and outsourced services. Manage external contractors for
  specialized projects related to HVAC, electrical, grounds, plumbing, general maintenance, and fire protection systems.
• Provide
  project management oversight for minor improvements and serve as the facilities liaison for major construction projects managed by the
  Campus Planning, Construction, & Sustainability team.

Systems & Technology:

• Develop, maintain, and optimize a
  comprehensive facilities management system, leveraging the effectiveness of the College’s Computerized Maintenance Management System
  (CMMS).

Job Requirements

Knowledge:

• Understand and perform administrative and clerical procedures and
  systems such as word processing, managing files and records, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
• Apply
  principles and processes for providing customer and personal services including customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for
  services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Basic principles of college-level administration.
• Utilize effective
  communication techniques and strategies.
• Operate standard office equipment including computers, telephones, copiers, and
  scanners.
• Follow and apply knowledge of college policies and procedures.

Supplemental Knowledge:

• Expert
  knowledge of planning, development, and operational oversight of complex multi-campus facility environments.
• In-depth understanding
  of management principles, best practices, and effective leadership methods.
• Proficiency in budget preparation, bid/purchasing
  procedures, cost control, and project cost estimating.
• Comprehensive technical knowledge of building systems, including advanced
  HVAC, electrical infrastructure, plumbing, fire protection, and grounds management.
• Thorough knowledge of all relevant local, state,
  and federal regulations, building codes, and safety standards (e.g., OSHA, ADA).
• Familiarity with architectural plans,
  specifications, and construction management processes.

Skills:

• Demonstrate required skills and be able to explain and
  demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
• Make decisions
  based on thorough analysis of issues and sound judgement.
• Exhibit strong interpersonal skills, tact, discretion, and ability to
  effectively communicate with a wide range of individuals and constituents.
• Show effective leadership, team building skills, and
  strong customer orientation when working with students, faculty, administration, community and business leaders.
• Utilize
  organizational and planning skills, and ability to meet deadlines.
• Maintain confidentiality of work-related information and
  materials.
• Maintain an established work schedule, with occasional nights and weekends.
• Use a variety of spreadsheet, word
  processing, database, and presentation software.
• Use query and control languages, web technology, client-server technology, data
  extraction and reporting, troubleshooting enterprise software applications, testing new program releases and patches, and integrating data
  from external sources.

Supplemental Skills:

• Strong ability to make sound financial recommendations, manage complex
  budgets effectively, and determine optimal allocation of resources.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively within
  departments and throughout the college community to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of facilities services.
• Ability to
  estimate time and material requirements for complex projects while maintaining confidentiality of sensitive
  information.
• Demonstrated proficiency in using and managing enterprise-level Computerized Maintenance Management Systems
  (CMMS).
• Proficiency using standard office software applications (MS Office Suite, etc.) for data analysis, reporting, and
  communication.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher.

Preferred
Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Facilities Management, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related
  field.

Experience:

• Five (5) years of related experience including one (1) year of supervisory
  experience.

Preferred Experience:

• Progressive maintenance management experience within a complex institutional
  setting (higher education preferred).
• Supervisory experience managing professional and trade staff.

Physical
Requirements and Work Environment

Physical Requirements:

• Work is performed in a variety of indoor and outdoor
  settings across campuses.
• Requires standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling; may involve stooping,
  crawling, and climbing as needed to inspect facilities.
• Occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.

Work
Environment:

• Responsible for supervising safe operations across all departments.
• Facilitates mandatory safety inspections
  and takes immediate, prudent actions to eliminate identified hazards.
• Ensures employees receive appropriate safety training and
  actively fosters a strong, proactive workplace safety culture.

Salary Range (PG 13)

$107,518 –
$140,797

Number of Openings:
1

Job Posting Close Date:
July 13, 2026

Clery Act

As
required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Campus
Safety Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority
(Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Austin Community College produces an Annual
Security Report as required by the Clery Act. This report includes statistics from the previous three years concerning reported crime that
occurred on campus; public property adjacent to and accessible from campus; and in certain non-campus buildings/property owned or controlled
by ACC. The report includes institutional policies concerning campus security and other safety information.

For direct access to the
current Annual Security Report, visit www.austincc.edu/asr . You may obtain a hard copy by contacting the Clery Compliance
Officer ( CleryComplianceOfficer@austincc.
edu ). For an overview, see ACC’s Clery Act website.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It
is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and
abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend,
or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as
requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with
disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.

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