Maintenance Supervisor - WEC Detention Facility

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Hiring Agency:

Correctional Services - Agency 46

Location:

McCook, NE

Hiring Rate:

$26.892

Job Posting:

JR2025-00021067 Maintenance Supervisor - WEC Detention Facility (Open)

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Job Description:

The WEC Detention Facility houses adults who have been adjudicated and are awaiting deportation. Information about the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) can be found at: www.corrections.nebraska.gov. For Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accommodations, please contact Megan Jones at [email protected].

• 13 paid holidays
• Vacation and sick leave (24 days your first year, accruing immediately)
• Military leave
• 156% state-matched retirement
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• 79% employer paid health insurance plans
• Dental and vision insurance plans
• Employer-paid $20,000 life insurance policy
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) eligible through the Federal government
• Wide variety and availability of career advancement
• Meaningful public service -- service with a purpose!
• Numerous training and development opportunities Information about the


DUTIES:
*Plan, assign, manage, and evaluate varied phases of construction, installation, maintenance, remodeling, repair, and preventative maintenance.
*Manage and evaluate the work of maintenance skilled staff, responsible for selection, discipline, performance, leave, grievances, work schedules, work assignments, and determination of the maintenance organizational structure.
*Develop, monitor, and revise the maintenance budget, determine maintenance priorities through strategic planning and resource identification, and develop various departmental personnel and operational policies/procedures.
*Review and identify major and minor construction, maintenance and repair projects, plans and lays out work, estimates time, cost, materials and feasibility of specific projects, recommends and coordinates appropriate course of action to management personnel.
*Solicit and review bids, and award service contracts, minor and major construction projects, oversee, approve, and negotiate work of outside contractors.
*Maintain the flow and quality of work across multiple shops to assure timely accomplishment of assignment workload and adjust in accord with overall priorities.

 

Requirements/Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: Associates degree or equivalent vocational education in construction, HVAC, welding, or other maintenance/construction trade, one year of experience in skilled building maintenance or a mechanical trade, and experience monitoring, coordinating, leading, or supervising the work of maintenance staff and/or projects. Experience may substitute for education on a year for year basis.

Other: Valid driver's license required. Applicants accepting a job offer must pass the following pre-employment exams in this order: medical exam, and at a randomly announced time, pass a drug test. Once at the Staff Training Academy, must successfully complete the fully paid NE Corrections Training Program.

 

 

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Benefits

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