Building Management Supervisor

The Halifax Regional Centre for Education (HRCE) is the largest Centre for Education in Atlantic Canada with over 11,000 full-time, part-time and casual employees. Serving more than 60,000 students in 136 schools, our geographic region spans a 350 km radius. Apply today to be a part of our team!

The Building Management Supervisor is the key contact for Operations Services for a group of schools within the Halifax Regional Centre for Education (HRCE). Within the assigned schools, the Building Management Supervisor is responsible for building safety systems, custodial staffing, maintenance coordination, security procedures and is the primary liaison between school-based staff and the greater maintenance team.

Duties include staff supervision, performance reviews, assigning routine maintenance tasks, performing inspections, planning fire drills and other emergency drills, participating in facility meetings, regulatory sign off, and coordination with HRCE maintenance personnel and external service providers.

The Building Management Supervisor will be integral in the development of best work practices, and consistent application of quality assurance standards for the HRCE.

The Building Management Supervisor reports to the Manager, Property Services – Custodial, and must communicate regularly with School-based staff to ensure Operations Services responsibilities are met in support of public school programming.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years experience working in the operation and/or maintenance of facilities;
• Minimum three years experience supervising twenty-five plus employees in a maintenance or custodial environment;
  
  

(c ) Technical certificate in a building operations/maintenance discipline from a recognized Community College, or equivalent experience;

• Experience working in a unionized environment;
• Valid Nova Scotia driver’s license and clean driving record. Access to and ability to operate a reliable vehicle to travel between assigned schools.
  
  

Salary

This is a PEG (Professional Employees Group) position classified on the Education Entities Non-Union Compensation Framework at Band 5 with a salary range between $56,451 - 70,564

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Nova Scotia’s Regional Centres for Education and the Conseil scolaire acadien provincial (CSAP) are committed to an inclusive education system that supports the well-being and achievement of every student and is high-quality, culturally and linguistically responsive.

The Halifax Regional Centre for Education (HRCE) is actively working to hire individuals from under-represented groups, particularly people of African Nova Scotian, African Canadian and African ancestry and Mi’kmaw/Indigenous ancestry, to work toward equitable representation within all employee groups. Equitable hiring strengthens the knowledge and expertise in our schools, and supports our public education system in establishing schools as safe, caring, and accessible learning spaces that support all students. This will provide opportunities for students to see themselves reflected throughout their schools, learning resources, and within their learning experiences.

HRCE has a Recruitment, Selection and Hiring of Staff Policy and we actively encourage applications from under-represented groups, particularly people of African Nova Scotian, African Canadian and African ancestry and Mi’kmaw/Indigenous ancestry, in compliance with the applicable collective agreements or terms and conditions of employment.

Applicants are encouraged to complete the Diversity Management section under the Questionnaire heading in the online resume. Applicants invited to participate in the hiring process (such as an interview or testing) and who require accommodation, should discuss their request for accommodation when invited to the assessment process.

Thank you for your interest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Employment with the Halifax Regional Centre for Education is contingent upon providing a satisfactory Criminal Records Check with a Vulnerable Sector Search and Child Abuse Registry Search.