Building and Grounds Director - Hadley, United States - The Hartsbrook School

Description

The Hartsbrook School is in search of an experienced and enthusiastic individual that enjoys being outdoors to serve as the Building and Grounds Director.

The person hired for this position will plan, coordinate, or perform a variety of administrative and facility maintenance services-often in coordination with the Safety Committee or Campus Committee.

The Building and Grounds Director is expected to act as liaison with the different departments of the school, evaluating organizational effectiveness and identifying methods of improvement with a focus on quality and aesthetics.

The Hartsbrook School's campus has a wide array of assets including school buildings and all the associated information systems, animal barns, playgrounds, fencing, parking lots, manicured fields, hayfields, culverts, and bridges.

We are looking for someone who can maintain these assets while also understanding how they contribute to and support the mission of the school.

• 35 years demonstrated experience in facilities management and/or operations management
• Demonstrated experience managing staff and allocation of work
• Tasks
• Great leadership and problemsolving skills
• Experience planning and maintaining facility budgets
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Professional leadership experience
• Contract handling experience
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent organizational skills and interpersonal skills
• Broad technical knowledge of the various building systems with handson training in some building trades
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and cooperatively with colleagues, parents, and families

Requirements:

• First Aid/CPR/AED Certification
• Allergy/Epi-Pen training
• Mandated Reporting
• Ability to pass CORI check and fingerprinting

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Compensation and Benefits:

The salary range for this position is $44, $59,466.00 commensurate with experience.

Benefits include employer contributions to health and dental plans and 403(b) retirement plan, short-term and long-term disability insurance, sick time, personal time, and professional development funding.

Generous tuition remission is available for eligible children enrolling at Hartsbrook.

• A cover letter explaining your interest and suitability;
• Your most recent and uptodate resume;
• A completed Employment Application including the names of at least three (3) references;
• All employees need to pass a background check, including fingerprinting, and must possess the legal right to work in the United States.

About The Hartsbrook School
The Hartsbrook School is a Waldorf school, originally founded in 1981 with five preschool students in a little farmhouse. We have grown to over 250 students with programming from Parent/Infant classes to Grade 12.

Our 54-acre campus, with farmland, woodlands, streams, and spectacular views of the Seven Sisters hills of the Holyoke Range, enhances and deepens our students' daily experiences.

We are situated in the middle of the five-college area of the Connecticut River Valley, which offers world-class cultural events, restaurants, movies, galleries, boutiques, local farms, dance, music, and theater.

Our faculty and staff are a multi-generational group who strive to support each other in our shared work.

The Hartsbrook School holds a vision in which our larger community is represented, reflected, and celebrated in our school - in race, economic situation, gender, sexuality, family composition, ability, nationality, religion, and more.

Such a vision is rooted in and expands upon Hartsbrook's mission to nurture the unique spirit of each child and to prepare students to meet the challenges of the future and to find purpose and meaning in their lives.

We have taken up the work of building a more equitable, diverse, and accessible school culture in a robust way and are proud of our accomplishments in this area.

We are committed to continuing to deepen our community's ability to connect people from diverse backgrounds, build mutual understanding and friendship, and enrich the collective life of the school and our individual lives.

We believe such work is healing, restorative, and life-giving for everyone involved.

As we learn to fully see and understand each other in our differences - and to celebrate those differences - we will move towards a more equitable, just, and welcoming school environment where everyone can feel a sense of belonging.