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Elevator Shop Manager

Employer
Florida State University
Location
Tallahassee, FL
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Employment Type
Full Time
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

Job Details

Job Title: Elevator Shop Manager
Location: Tallahassee, FL
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Job ID: 63350
Department

FSU Facilities and Grounds

Responsibilities

Serves as a subject matter expert for vertical and horizontal transportation systems. Oversees compliance with Chapter 399, Florida Statutes, and Rule 61C-5, Florida Administrative Code. Serves as primary liaison with the Department of Business and Professional. Regulation (DBPR), Bureau of Elevator Safety. Provides direct supervision, leadership, and accountability for all Elevator Program support staff, including assigned coordinators, inspectors, and technical support personnel, ensuring effective day-to-day operations of the university elevator program.

Manages campus-wide elevator maintenance control program including preventative maintenance, service interruptions, shutdowns, and return-to-service approvals. Responds to elevator entrapments and safety incidents, including after-hours emergencies. Maintains asset inventories, budgets, metrics, preventative maintenance records, and prepares reports for Facilities leadership. Coordinates inspections, permits, certificates of operation, corrective actions, and accident reporting.

Oversees contracted elevator vendors, inspections, and documentation. Monitors performance, response times, safety practices, and contract compliance. Assists with procurement, renewals, invoicing, and amendments. Evaluate all FSU Facilities elevators to ensure equipment is being maintained to manufacture's specifications. Ensures safe and reliable elevator operation.

Participates in elevator capital improvement planning. Coordinate with elevator vendor to evaluate campus conditions of equipment to identify if a modernization is required. Collaborate with Facilities PD&C to provide guidance and support when needed as the subject matter expert for elevator modernization. Contributes to the development of Capital Projects and Deferred Maintenance lists. Works closely with Facilities department reps, maintenance supervisors, and campus FLO personnel.

Completes required safety training and complies with all safety standards including but not limited to lock out-tag out, confined space safety, safe handling of hazardous chemicals, participation in campus safety teams, and wearing required personal protective equipment (PPE). Reports complex and/or unusual problems to the Facilities Superintendent and coordinates with other Maintenance Supervisors and staff as required to complete complex tasks. Completes other relevant duties as assigned, operates university vehicles.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree and four years experience related to facilities and/or grounds services or a high school diploma or equivalent and eight years of experience. (Note: or a combination of post high school education and experience equal to eight years.)

A valid Florida or Georgia driver's license or the ability to obtain one upon hire

University Information

One of the nation's elite research universities, Florida State University preserves, expands, and disseminates knowledge in the sciences, technology, arts, humanities, and professions, while embracing a philosophy of learning strongly rooted in the traditions of the liberal arts and critical thinking. Founded in 1851, Florida State University is the oldest continuous site of higher education in Florida. FSU is a community steeped in tradition that fosters research and encourages creativity. At FSU, there’s the excitement of being part of a vibrant academic and professional community, surrounded by people whose ideas are shaping tomorrow’s news!

Learn more about Florida State University and our campuses.

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How To Apply

If qualified and interested in a specific job opening as advertised, apply through the FSU Careers site (jobs.fsu.edu). If you are a current FSU employee, apply through myFSU Self Service.

Applicants are required to complete the online application with all applicable information. Applications must include all work history up to ten years, and education details even if attaching a resume.

Considerations

This is an A&P position.

This position is being re-advertised. Previous applicants need not reapply.

This position requires successful completion of a criminal history background check.

This position is open until filled.

Equal Employment Opportunity

FSU is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

Organization

Working at Florida State University

One of the nation's elite research universities, Florida State University — with the Carnegie Foundation's highest designation, Doctoral/Research University-Extensive — offers a distinctive academic environment built on its cherished values and unique heritage, welcoming campus on the oldest continuous site of higher education in Florida, championship athletics, and prime location in the heart of the state capital.

Combining traditional strength in the arts and humanities with recognized leadership in the sciences, Florida State University provides unmatched opportunities for students and faculty through challenging academics, cultural discovery and community interaction.

Underlying and supporting the educational experience at Florida State University is the development of new generations of citizen leaders, based on the concepts inscribed in our seal: Vires, Artes, Mores — Strength, Skill and Character.

Epitomized by recently named Rhodes Scholars Garrett Johnson and Myron Rolle — elite athletes and scholars committed to public service — and Joseph O'Shea — a campus and community leader as well as a top scholar — Florida State's 40,000 students are dedicated to academic excellence and providing leadership in our complex world.

Florida State University's 16 colleges offer more than 275 undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, professional and specialist degree programs, including medicine and law, covering a broad array of disciplines critical to society today. Each year the University awards over 2,000 graduate and professional degrees.

With its impressive breadth of leading graduate, professional and undergraduate programs, Florida State University is a demanding, intellectually stimulating, yet warm and caring environment for students and faculty. Recognized nationally for its commitment to diversity, Florida State University is a national leader in the number of doctorates awarded to African-American students and in the graduation rate of African-American undergraduates. Its College of Medicine and College of Law are ranked in the nation's Top 10 for Hispanic students.

Florida State University's arts programs — dance, film, music and theatre — rank among the finest in the world, offering an arts education comparable to leading conservatories. Its creative writing program is ranked among the nation's best and is home to the most consistently honored and published student body in the United States. Florida State is responsible for governance of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and associated arts programs, one of the largest museum/university complexes in the nation.

Other programs consistently included in the top public university list include physics, chemistry, political science, psychology, criminology, public administration, library science, information, human sciences, business and law.

At the Ph.D. level, interdisciplinary programs draw on notable research faculty strengths that transcend the traditional disciplines, including neuroscience, molecular biophysics, computational science, materials science and research at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory—home to the world's most powerful magnets.

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