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Supervises all phases of buildings and grounds program at an institution with a resident population generally ranging from 1500 to 3000.

The work involves supervision of all buildings and grounds services such as power plant, buildings maintenance, grounds maintenance, housekeeping, and related services. Services at this level normally require 30 to 40 tradesmen and an additional number of semi-skilled employees engaged in a variety of building maintenance and grounds keeping tasks. Also assigned to this level are assistant director positions in charge of the maintenance and related sections of a large state institution with an aggregate population normally exceeding 10,000. Supervision is received from an agency administrative official or higher level buildings and grounds official who makes general assignments and who appraises the work through inspection of results and by analysis of progress and coat reports.

Examples of duties characteristic or positions in this class:

1. Directs and supervises subordinate supervisors and trades foremen and skilled and semi-skilled tradesmen engaged in carpentry, masonry, plumbing, electrical work, and other related trades in building maintenance and construction.
2. Schedules construction, maintenance, and alteration projects on the basis of institutional need and budgetary allowance; estimates operational coats of department for institutional budgetary purposes.
3. Supervises the preparation of requisitions for equipment, supplies, and materials for use in maintenance and plant operation activities; keeps records of materials and supplies used and on hand; keeps time reports on employees supervised.
4. Supervises employees engaged in power plant, housekeeping, and allied operations.
5. Supervises grounds maintenance and landscaping.
6. Discusses proposed construction or alteration projects with superiors; inspects projects which are under contract; and lays out and supervises projects which are within the scope of the buildings and grounds staff.

Completion of high school and at least six years of supervisory experience in one or more of the building trades. Experience at the journeyman level may be substituted for education on an equivalent time basis. Completion of college with a degree in engineering or a comparable field may be substituted for the required experience on an equivalent time basis.

Considerable knowledge of the principle and methods of bui1dings maintenance and grounds maintenance; considerable knowledge of heating plant operation; ability to lay out construction projects.