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Juvenile Facilities Manager



Job Details

Juvenile Facilities Manager

This listing closes on 4/30/2025 at 11:59 PM Central Time (US & Canada).

Employer

Travis County

Salary

$69,493.17 - $90,341.12 Annually

Location

Austin, TX

Job Type

Full Time

Job Number

24-09805

Department

Juvenile Probation

Opening Date

02/20/2025

Closing Date

4/30/2025 at 11:59 PM Central Time (US & Canada)

Job Summary

Provides management oversight and direction for facilities assessments, service contracts and in-house moving services. Executes building support initiatives. Directs, plans, and schedules building support services. Supervises and trains staff. Oversees facility maintenance, food services and fleet operations.


DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS:

This is a job classification within the Management job family. This classification is distinguished by the management duties and responsibilities. This classification may require a flexible work schedule in order to meet the needs of the department.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Supervises staff, evaluates staff job performance and coordinates schedules and assignments. Prepares a variety of fiscal and administrative reports.
  • Provides coaching and counseling, conducts disciplinary actions, and ensures compliance with policies, procedures, laws, regulations, goals and objectives.
  • Establishes project priorities and plans for timely completion of facility projects.
  • Coordinates and manages utilization of vendors and contractors. Manages inventory, purchases materials and services for maintenance, construction and custodial services.
  • Plans for replacement of building components based on life cycle analysis.
  • Administers budget for building support services and assists in minor construction and planning estimating.
  • Manages work order systems, analyzes trends and provides feedback. Responds to facilities related emergencies.
  • Conducts research, plans programs, policies, procedures, goals and objectives.
  • Ensures that policies and procedures regarding safety, sanitation and security of residents and staff are being followed.
  • Performs administrative division tasks, as required.
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements

Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Public Administration, Business Administration or a field directly related to facilities maintenance and management AND five (5) years increasingly responsible facilities maintenance experience, including two (2) mid- to senior level supervisory or management experience;

OR,

Any combination of education and experience that has been achieved and is equivalent to the stated education and experience and required knowledge, skills, and abilities sufficient to successfully perform the duties and responsibilities of this job.

Licenses, Registrations, Certifications, or Special Requirements:
Current Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Certification.
Valid Texas Driver's License.

Preferred:
Correctional administration experience.
3 years of Correctional Administration Experience
HVAC Maintenance and Repairs
Large Chiller and Boiler Maintenance
Plumbing Maintenance and Repairs
Facilities Project Management and Service Contracts
Spanish Speaking

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Knowledge of:

  • Management and supervisory principles, practices and techniques.
  • Policies, practices, procedures and terminology of assigned function.
  • Standard practices in area of assignment.
  • Federal, State, Local and County applicable laws, rules, regulations and applicable professional health care standards and procedures.
  • Budget preparation and office management.
  • Computer equipment to include word processing, spreadsheets, databases and a variety of software packages.
  • Business letter writing, grammar and punctuation, and report preparation.
Skill in:
  • Supervising others, including team building.
  • Using and caring for equipment utilized in area of assignment.
  • Explaining complicated technical problems in simple non-technical language.
  • Problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Both verbal and written communication.
Ability to:
  • Train and supervise office personnel.
  • Develop, analyze and interpret policies and procedures, financial statements, public information statements, and operational plans or activities.
  • Plan, assign, motivate and coordinate work of support staff to achieve specific service objectives.
  • Manage time well, perform multiple tasks and organize diverse activities.
  • Independently prepare correspondence, memorandums, and other materials.
  • Research, compile, analyze, interpret and prepare a variety of fiscal, statistical and administrative reports.
  • Establish and maintain effective working relationships with County employees and officials, representatives of outside agencies, and the general public.

Work Environment & Other Information

Physical requirements include the ability to lift/carry up to 50-100 pounds occasionally, visual acuity, speech and hearing, hand and eye coordination and manual dexterity necessary to operate a computer and office equipment. Subject to standing, walking, sitting, repetitive motion, reaching, climbing stairs, bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, pushing, pulling, balancing, squatting to perform the essential functions. Subject to contact with noise, vibration, fumes, foul odor, dirt, dust, mist, gases, and poor ventilation, and moving large set of construction parts, tools or machinery. May be exposed to hostile behavior from clients.

Travis County employees play an important role in business continuity. As such, employees can be assigned to business continuity efforts outside of normal job functions.

Work Hours: 8 am - 5 pm, Monday -Friday. May work some holidays, some nights, some weekends

Location: 2515 S. Congress Ave., Austin

Department: Juvenile Probation

Criminal background check, Driving, Education, and Employment verification required. 

 

This job description is intended to be generic in nature. It is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. The essential duties, functions and responsibilities and overtime eligibility may vary based on the specific tasks assigned to the position.

You must ensure your application accurately reflects your skills and abilities as they relate to the position. Only periods of employment and experience detailed in the "Work Experience" section of the application will be considered in determining which applicants move forward in the selection process, as well as determining pay level for candidate(s) recommended for hire.

Benefits
Employment at Travis County comes with a full array of benefits. We offer comprehensive health insurance, a no-cost, on-site Health and Wellness clinic, longevity pay, paid vacations, sick time and personal holidays, not to mention an industry competitive salary structure and a friendly, stable work environment.

FY2025 Travis County Benefit Guide

In this valuable Travis County Benefits Guide you will find benefit summaries, eligibility requirements, costs, contact numbers and addresses as well as other general information on the benefits available to Travis County Employees and Retirees.

Credit Union
Employees may join the Travis County Credit Union which offers low-interest loans, savings plans through payroll deduction, safe deposit boxes and other benefits.

Deferred Compensation
Employees may enroll in a tax- free sheltered investment plan through payroll deduction.

Direct Deposit
Employees may sign up for direct bank deposit.

Employee Assistance Program
Travis County provides a confidential counseling and referral service free of charge to county employees and their family.

Employee Organizations
Membership in the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Union is available through payroll deduction.

Employee Health & Wellness Clinic
Employees may access the clinic for a variety of wellness program and health care services with no co-pay, no deductible and no co-insurance costs.

Holidays
An average of eleven paid holidays are designated by the Travis County Commissioners Court at the beginning of each fiscal year.

Insurance 
Employees may select from four plans: an Exclusive Physician Organization (EPO), Choice Plus Preferred Physician Organization (PPO), Consumer Choice or a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) with a Health Savings Account (HSA). All four options include a Pharmacy Plan. Travis County’s current policy is to pay 100% of the employee’s health insurance premium for the Consumer Choice and HDHP. Employees will pay a premium for both the EPO and PPO. Other insurance benefits include $50,000 Basic Life and AD&D paid by the County.

The following benefits are employee paid:

  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Supplemental Life, AD&D
  • Dependent Life
  • Short Term Disability
  • Long Term Disability
  • Long Term Care

New employees are covered on the first day of the month following 28 calendar days of employment.

Longevity
Longevity pay is paid for each year completed after three years of continuous service. Peace Officers in a law enforcement activity, whose job requires state peace officer certification, receive pay after one year of certification.

On the regular payday on or after the employee's fourth and subsequent adjusted service dates, he or she receives a single payment for the previous year.

Parking
A limited number of assigned parking spaces are available to employees in the Courthouse Complex.

Personal Holidays
Regular, full-time employees are eligible for up to three paid personal holidays each calendar year. Part-time employees shall be granted personal holidays on a prorated basis. New employees earn personal holidays for the calendar year in which he/she begins employment, based on the month in which employment begins:

January – March
3 personal holidays
 
April - June
2 personal holidays
 
July - September
1 personal holiday
 
October - December
None

New employees are eligible to take personal holidays after 90 days of employment.

Retirement
Travis County is a member of the Texas County & District Retirement System with mandatory participation by certain classes of employees. Seven percent (7%) of the gross salary is deducted each pay period. An employee is fully vested after eight years of service. Benefits are prorated for part-time employees.

Sick Leave
Regular employees earn sick leave at a rate of eight hours per month with unlimited accrual during employment. Part-time employees earn sick leave on a pro-rated basis.

Parental Leave
Each Full-time Paid Parental Leave Eligible (PPL) Employee is entitled to a total of 320 hours of Paid Parental Leave in a 12 month period. Paid Parental Leave for Part-time PPL Eligible Employees is prorated based on the number of hours that they are regularly scheduled to work.

Tuition Refund
Certain classes of full-time employees may receive reimbursement for fees associated with pre-approved, job related course work completed satisfactorily.

Vacation
Based on years of county service, regular, full-time employees earn vacation time at the following rates:

0 to 5 years
4.0 hours per pay period
 
6 to 10 years
4.5 hours per pay period
 
11 to 15 years
5.0 hours per pay period
 
16 to 20 years
5.5 hours per pay period
 
21 plus years
6.0 hours per pay period

Part-time employees earn vacation leave on a pro-rated basis.

Workers' Compensation
The county provides all employees workers' compensation coverage with benefits in accordance with state statute, if the employee sustains an injury out of, or in the course of work.

Address
700 Lavaca Street

Austin, Texas, 78701

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