Supervisor, Facilities

53704 Job posted on: 4/24/2008 At Covance, you can make a difference by helping to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing medicines to people around the world. Our commitment to this mission has resulted in Covance’s impressive history of company stability and growth. We’ve achieved these results by fostering a work environment that encourages, develops and leverages our team’s capabilities. Covance’s ongoing success offers team members unsurpassed growth and career development opportunities. There is no better time to join us! • Assists in the development and management of the departmental budget. • Serves as departmental contact for all internal and external audits dealing with pest control, incinerator and cGMP glasswash equipment. • Develops, implements, and maintains departmental and company P&Ps. • Provides monthly reporting on budgets, productivity statistics, and departmental measurements. • Serve as Green Belt to Six Sigma projects. • Creates, provides and implements training plans and career paths for staff; training to include internal and external formal training. • Manages preventative maintenance and corrective maintenance programs for building maintenance staff. • Organizes, assigns and supervises execution of work in areas of “in house” custodial, laundry, laboratory glassware washing, facility signage, cage repair and building maintenance staff. • Organizes and oversees comprehensive waste and recycling programs as required in the facilities. • Develop and implement initiatives for improving maintenance deficiencies. • Develop and maintain ongoing relationships with other departments and support functions. • Coordinates support from outside vendors for facility support functions. • Monitor the work environment to assure the working conditions are and remain safe and meet all relevant safety requirements. • Organize and supervise execution of external contracted services for related contracts (i.e. landscaping, snow removal, pest control, housekeeping, window washing, laundry, confidential paper destruction, waste removal/recycling, etc.). • Assists and advises less experienced staff on skills improvement. • Performs other related duties as assigned. Experience: • 3-4 years of related experience with 1-3 years of supervisory experience. • Familiarity with federal, state and community regulations. • Intermediate/advanced computer skills (e.g.; MS Office). • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Education: • BS degree. Experience may be substituted for education. • College or trade school courses in maintenance, sciences, supervision/management or skilled trades. At Covance, we help make the miracles of medicine a reality. We offer opportunities to work on diverse, challenging projects with bright, interesting colleagues while building a flexible and rewarding career. Covance is committed to diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. (M/F/D/V). Your confidentiality and privacy are important to us. Save to job file |