Facilities Manager

Summary: Lead the team that keeps our campus running. As the Facilities Manager youll provide strategic leadership for Maintenance Grounds & Food Services teams while ensuring a safe welcoming and well-maintained environment for students employees and visitors. If youre a collaborative leader who enjoys solving complex operational challenges building high-performing teams and making a visible impact every day wed love to have you join us.

Salary: $100000-$110000

Position Duties and Responsibilities:Under the general direction of the Facilities Executive Director the Facilities Manager maintains College campus facilities grounds and infrastructure while supporting leadership planning and direction for Food Services. The position supports the Facilities Executive Director and other College divisions by helping ensure a functioning safe and inviting campus for students employees and public daily Facilities operations and direct the Maintenance and Grounds teams to maintain and improve campus buildings grounds utilities equipment and infrastructure; coordinate campus moves fixture support and snow and ice removal.

• Provide effective supervision as necessary to assigned personnel staff to maximize performance by appropriately delegating tasks and by providing employees with clear and effective guidance on work priorities and workplace issues
• Develop an effective and efficient staff by interviewing and hiring qualified applicants training individuals with emphasis on working procedures operation and use of new equipment and materials safety and College polices and through regular performance evaluation
• Build a collaborative team environment through open and consistent communication where all team members contribute and participate in department planning and development.
• Prepare a variety of reports such as analyses of operational workloads service requirements procedures and employee job performance evaluations
• Assign employee work hours job responsibilities and as necessary specific job tasks to meet the needs of the College
• Maintain a working knowledge of and adhere to all policy law and any applicable Collective Bargaining Agreement(s) regarding employee working conditions overtime rules leave policies payroll procedures etc.
• Effectively manage employee relations within the department including facilitation of conflict resolution and the handling of formal or informal grievances as necessary

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Provide excellent customer service communicate coach collaborate and work effectively with internal users external partners and individuals with varied work and leadership styles backgrounds ages ethnicities and abilities in an inclusive participatory environment built on trust competence confidentiality and positive service.
• Demonstrate experience in facilities maintenance groundskeeping custodial services safety and/or food services with substantial expertise in at least one of these areas.
• Demonstrate excellent leadership and supervisory skills including the ability to guide train coach organize and work effectively both independently with minimal supervision and as part of a team.
• Utilize strong computer skills including Microsoft Office 365 database management work order systems energy management systems and other software packages in the regular performance of the position.
• Prepare accurate detailed documentation and written correspondence independently or with collaborative tools to gather analyze and communicate necessary information to Facilities team campus and others.
• Understand and apply laws rules codes and accepted practices for emergency and safety operations in educational or public facilities including OSHA NFPA and FEMA NIMS; provide training and assistance related to chemical safety personal protective equipment basic industrial hygiene safe work practices and maintaining a safe work environment.
• Manage crisis situations and perform effectively under pressure in a fast-paced stressful environment by prioritizing competing demands meeting deadlines adapting to changing business needs processes challenges and responsibilities and applying strong analytical problem-solving project management and time-management skills.
• Display integrity and act with discretion by accessing individual or institutional information for a stated business purpose
• Work independently and on a flexible schedule

Minimum Qualifications:

• Ability to pass a Washington State background check
• Five years of experience in facilities and operations focused on one of the following facilities-related trades: maintenance groundskeeping custodial services and/or safety.
• Three years of experience supervising a team of four or more full-time facilities-related staff members
• Associates Degree

OR

• high school graduation or equivalent plus a combination of college level coursework seminars and on-the-job training equivalent to an Associates level

OR

• Equivalent education/experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree and/or Completion and certification of a recognized Trade Apprenticeship program to reach Journeyman-Level status (typically 5-year apprenticeship process to reach Journeyman)
• Three years or more of journeyman level experience in facilities and operations (typically equals eight years of progressive advancement in a trade where five years apprenticeship level work to reach journeyman and then three more years at the skilled level of work)
• Three or more years in last five years supervising four or more full-time facilities-related staff Experience working at an educational institution
• Facilities and operations experience in an educational institution
• Occupational training within the last five years in any related facilities field

Physical Work Environment:

• Shifts which require being mobile and on your feet 100% of the assigned shift
• Shifts which require sitting for 100% of the assigned shift
• Walking stooping bending and lifting; Manual dexterity
• Repeated pushing pulling and lifting of 50 or more pounds; Bending/twisting crouching/kneeling squatting to demonstrate duties required from all Facilities Department position
• Reaching below knees/knees to shoulders/above shoulder in order to demonstrate routine cleaning tasks required of all Facilities Department positions
• Moving freely from one floor to the next using stairs and from one building to another over uneven surfaces; Fitting in tight spaces in order to demonstrate necessary facilities work
• Work both indoors and outdoors often in inclement weather conditions and extreme ambient temperatures (heat or cold)
• Safely handle power equipment cleaning chemicals and other facilities related equipment and/or products; and working at a computer will be required.

Compensation Work Schedule and Benefits:

Salary: $00

Leave benefits:

• 8 hours per month of sick leave
• 16 starting at hours per month of vacation leave
• 24 hours of personal leave per calendar year
• 12 paid state/college holidays per calendar year

Benefits also include a Washington State insurance package including selecting one of:

• 6 medical options
• 3 dental plan options
• 3 vision plan options Include:
• life insurance
• long-term disability

Retirement benefits package including one of:

• TIAA Stare Board Retirement Plan (SBRP)
• Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) Plan 3 Two voluntary investment (not matched) programs
• TIAA (403b)
• State Deferred Compensation (457) plan

Additional optional benefits include ability to participate in:

• Medical Flexible Spending plan
• Limited Purpose Flexible Spending plan
• Health Savings Account
• Dependent Care Assistance
• Discounts for automobile and homeowner insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Up to 21 days of military leave
• Up to 5 days of paid bereavement leave
• Paid civil/jury duty
• Bereavement leave
• Ability to participate in a shared leave program

Application Procedures and Deadline:

Required application materials must be completed and submitted online at and received by 5 p.m. on October 1 2026 for priority consideration. Application materials received after this date and time may be considered until the position is filled.

More information about Bellingham Technical College is at or contact the Human Resources office at (360)

752-8354. At this time BTC is not sponsoring H-1B Visas.

Required Online Application Materials:

(Attachments in Word or PDF file only)

• Completed BTC Online Employment Application Supplemental Questions

Interviews are tentatively scheduled for October 20 2026

Estimated Start Date: November 16 2026

The application package and all materials submitted with it become the property of the college and will not be returned or considered for additional or future openings.

Mission: Bellingham Technical College provides student-centered high-quality professional technical education for todays needs and tomorrows opportunities.

Employment Eligibility Verification: Bellingham Technical College employs only United States citizens and lawfully authorized non-U.S. citizens. All new employees must show employment eligibility verification as required by the Department of Homeland Security.

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