Responsibility Overview:

The Facilities Manager is the regional contact for all self-storage facilities and maintenance services. This person is responsible for ensuring facilities are in good working order and properly maintained in accordance with company policies and expectations as well as local, state and federal regulations. Specific solutions are to be developed in the following areas: facility maintenance coordination, capital improvement plan development, vendor selection and bid processes. He/She reports into the Regional Director of Operations for his/her region.

Job Duties:

• Main point of contact for the front-line self-storage management personnel to coordinate maintenance requests through ticketing system and according to specifications within the approved budget and/or Regional Director of Operations? instruction.
• Plans, budgets, and schedules facilities repairs and modifications including cost estimates, bid sheets, layouts, and contracts.
• Develops long range plans for facility maintenance and capital improvements, including conceptual designs, and capital outlay requirements and documentation for each facility.
• Formulates and coordinates program specifications, requirements for proposals and contracts, and associated documents.
• Inspects construction and installation progress to ensure conformance to established specifications.
• Oversees changes to building space allocation and layout as the needs of individual storage facilities change.
• Oversees and directs trades/contractors? personnel and workers engaged in facilities? repair and maintenance.
• Audit invoices pertaining to facility maintenance, rejecting erroneous or duplicate invoices, and approving acceptable invoices for payment
• Perform basic construction field work such as installing lights, doors, closers, kick plates, thermostats, adjusting and replacing roll-up doors, etc.
• Respond to afterhours emergencies involving the physical facilities
• Inspects self-storage facilities and evaluates use of space, improvement needs from both an operational and safety perspective.

Education and Experience Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Facilities Maintenance, or Associate degree in relevant field.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in facilities maintenance roles with progressively larger responsibility.

Language Skills:

The Facilities Manager must have the ability to write/read/speak in English. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, and operational procedures. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, vendors, contractors, clients, customers, and the general public. He/she must also be able to build strong relationship with peers and senior leadership.

Mathematical Skills:

The Facilities Manager must be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, percentages, ratios, and decimals. Ability to apply fundamentals of plane, solid geometry and trigonometry is necessary. Most mathematical functions are performed in Excel or on a calculator; employees must be able to operate both.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Computer Skills:

Experience and knowledge of Contact Management Systems; Internet Software; Electronic Mail (Outlook); Presentations (PowerPoint); Spreadsheets (Excel) and Word Processing (Word).

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms, stand, walk, climb, or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and smell. Travel is required approximately 50% of the time.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The employee is regularly exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of electrical shock. The employee is occasionally exposed to working near moving mechanical parts and frequent exposure to outdoor weather conditions in wet and/or humid conditions as well as exposure to extreme cold and/or heat (weather & nonweather conditions).

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

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