Director-Facilities Maintenance

Are you a strategic leader with a disciplined approach to driving change and achieving operational excellence? Community Transit is looking for a Director of Facilities Maintenance to guide our department through an exciting period of growth and transformation. We need a forward-thinking leader who can craft and implement strategies that align with our long-term vision while cultivating a culture of collaboration and innovation. In this role, you'll focus on empowering your team, promoting continuous improvement, and ensuring our facilities operate seamlessly. Your leadership will inspire a motivated and high-performing team ready to shape the future of public transit. If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you!

The Director of Facilities Maintenance provides strategic leadership to Community Transit's Facilities Maintenance Division and is accountable for overall division performance.

Essential Duties

1. Provide strategic leadership.

• Establish and ensure full implementation of division policies, processes, and performance standards.
• Determine division structure and framework.  Provide resources (staff, budget, equipment, training, development).
• Establish an effective employee promotional structure.
• Collaborate with senior managers and executives in strategy development to ensure alignment of facilities and capabilities of facility maintenance staff with agency needs.

2. Supervise and direct management-level employees.

• Recruit, train, and supervise management-level staff.  Conduct performance evaluations.   
• Facilitate conflict resolution within the team and cross-functionally with other divisions.

3. Establish an effective culture.

• Model and advocate diversity, equity, and inclusion values across the division. 
• Lead and implement inclusive initiatives so that every team member feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute to a thriving workplace culture where diverse perspectives are celebrated and integrated.
• Lead and model a growth mindset.
• Foster continuous process improvement.
• Facilitate conflict resolution within the team and cross-functionally with other departments.
• Maintain a strong safety culture, demonstrating commitment to agency safety plans, goals, and regulations.

4. Direct the development of the division's budget and business plan.  Oversee allocation and effective expenditure of budgeted funds.
5. Serve as a key advisor to the Chief Operating Officer, CEO, Executive Team, and the Board on Facilities Maintenance strategies.  Participate as a member ofthe agency’s cross-functional senior leadership group (Leaders in Collaboration – LinC) and the Operations leadership team.
6. Stay current on modern facilities maintenance methodologies and strategies, transportation industry practices, and agency operations.  
7. Support collective bargaining efforts and manage the implementation of labor agreements.  In cooperation with the Manager of Labor Relations, advise and provide guidance to direct reports on labor relations policies.  Offer strategic input and negotiation support to the Agency's chief negotiator and department managers during        contract negotiations.
8. Perform other duties of a similar nature or level.