Senior Manager, Facilities Operations

Ywca Seattle King Snohomish Facilities Sr. Manager

Ywca Sks is the region's largest non-profit organization with a 120+ year legacy, focused on the needs of women, with programs serving 7,000 people each year. When you work with Ywca, you make a difference. We're women and bipoc-led, family-centered, and supportive of employees. As a full-time Ywca employee (30+ hours), you'll enjoy a benefits package including medical insurance, generous vacation, holiday, sick leave plans, and an outstanding retirement plan. Put your passion for racial equity and social justice to work -- apply today!

The Ywca owns or manages a portfolio of 20+ buildings in Seattle and Snohomish County. This position will provide support to the facilities departments in Snohomish. The Facilities Sr. Manager works closely with housing staff and vendors to provide critical coordination, communication and information for the efficient functioning and productivity of facilities and housing. This position will provide leadership and operational direction to Facilities staff through training, performance management, assigning work/priorities, and project oversight. The Senior Manager, Facilities Operations serves as a leader within the Facilities Department, calculating costs, planning special projects, and executing plans safely and efficiently. The position requires a sound understanding of facilities management principles to ensure safety and compliance in Ywca's building spaces and housing communities. This position has a social justice component that will require critical thinking around how external systems impact our work through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty---committed to Ywca's core principles of antiracism work and grounding those principles in everyday work. Leaders at Ywca must work effectively in non-white environments and champion antiracism policies, practices, and processes.

Expectations of your role:

• Manages the daily operations of the Ywca facilities department across King County to ensure properties remain safe, orderly, and well-maintained while meeting programmatic and organizational needs.
• Hands-on with Facilities team to keep workload flowing and on-time as needed.
• Monitor the status of rent-ready inventory; take steps to ensure units are available within specified timeframes and meet quality standards.
• Reviews work orders to provide assignments, and unit turns completed timely in less than 30 days.
• Develop and implement effective work order management strategies, including associated emergency, predictive, preventative maintenance, and daily plans to deliver curb appeal, cleanliness, and property appearance.
• Serve as primary contact for the Facilities department in coordination of maintenance work with housing staff, commercial tenants, and preferred contractors in King County.
• Work with Facilities staff to organize and maintain tracking systems for inventory and key systems.
• Use professional discretion and independent judgement to develop standards, order materials and maintain as adequate inventory of required materials.
• Supervise preventative maintenance.