Facilities Manager

The Facilities Manager supports Lake Avenue Church's mission and vision by learning and eventually overseeing campus equipment and facilities maintenance. This role includes managing routine maintenance schedules, ensuring compliance with inspection and safety regulations required by law, life safety, and supporting other aspects of plant operations and campus services. They will initially focus on understanding specific areas of LAC’s facilities to independently execute tasks as directed by the Director of Operations & Campus Services with minimal supervision.

We are looking for someone with a character growing in Christlikeness with spiritual gifts of servant leadership, administration, decision making, facilities stewardship, and a shepherd. (Romans 12:6-8; 1 Peter 4:10-11; 1 Cor 12:4-11; Eph 4:11-16). This position requires the capacity to work with and lead people with a wide range of gifts, strengths, personalities, and passions. We are seeking someone with the capacity to develop and implement effective, innovative, and relevant facilities and operations ministry, similar to the Priesthood of the Tribe of Levi (Numbers 4, 8:13, 10:17-21). With our congregation, it is critical to lead across spiritually, ethnically, socio-economically, and culturally diverse groups.

Essential duties to this position include the following:

• Oversee the continuous process of service required to maintain LAC’s facility and its campus. These services include daily cleaning, routine maintenance including campus grounds and landscape, preventive and approved deferred maintenance of major facilities systems such as heating, ventilation, air conditioning, electrical, plumbing, fire sprinklers and backflow devices, and other areas needing repairs.
• Oversee, identify, and implement energy efficiencies within LAC facilities. Examples include lighting energy and water usage.
• Keep in touch with current trends relating to LAC's facilities' plant operations, maintenance, compliance, and regulatory requirements. Dialogue with ministry counterparts at other churches regularly. Attend enrichment venues (seminars/conferences) that relate to facilities management
• Maintain all audit records and files related to the maintenance upgrades, regularly scheduled inspections, compliance certifications, and other pertinent records documenting maintenance, both regularly scheduled and emergency actions.
• Provide administrative support for the Director of Operations & Campus Services.

There is no expectation that one would just come in and manage what is happening. However, we expect the Facilities Manager to provide vision and direction for engagement and growth that integrates with our ministry mission and values.

Qualifications include:

• With a commitment to Lake Avenue Church's mission and vision, the candidate must wholeheartedly agree with the ten articles of the Lake Avenue Church Statement of Faith and the church’s positions on gender, human sexuality, and marriage.
• Have an engineering, facility operations and/or maintenance, and/or construction/skilled trade background with a minimum of 7 years of experience.
• Experienced with contract management and working with different engineering and construction disciplines.
• Working knowledge of building codes, fire department regulations, OSHA, and American Disability Compliance. Preference for knowledge based on Los Angeles County and Pasadena laws and regulations.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, facilities management, or a related field, and demonstrated understanding of facilities operations and maintenance. Professional and/or skilled trade certification preferred. HVAC, electrical, or plumbing certification is highly desirable.
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