As a Maintenance Supervisor for the Bethlehem Housing Authority, you will be part of an agency dedicated to dependable housing and strong neighborhoods. This role allows you to lead skilled employees, strengthen maintenance practices, and make a lasting impact. You will help direct a program that keeps buildings safe, efficient, and well cared for. Step into a leadership role that supports both employees and residents. If you are looking for a challenging position with an agency that values leadership, teamwork, and community service, Bethlehem Housing Authority is looking for you!
This position guides the planning and direction of a complex maintenance program that supports buildings, grounds, and essential heating and utility operations. The role ensures resources are used effectively and staff work is well coordinated. As a Maintenance Supervisor, you will perform the following duties:
- Team Oversight: Manage and support 15 maintenance employees and 3 administrative staff in daily operations
- Program Direction: Plan, organize, and direct building maintenance, heating systems, and utility operations
- Resource Coordination: Allocate fiscal, material, and manpower resources for preventive, operational, and emergency maintenance
- Operational Review: Monitor work through reports, inspections, and conferences with administrative leadership
- Maintenance Leadership: Guide technical staff and ensure work standards are met across all maintenance areas
Work Schedule and Additional Information:
- Full-time employment
- Work hours are 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, Monday - Friday, with 30-minute lunch, On Call.
- Telework: You will not have the option to telework in this position.
- Salary: In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
- You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.
QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Experience and Training Requirements:
- Six years of experience in the maintenance and repair or construction of buildings or facilities, including three years in a progressively responsible supervisory or administrative capacity.
- College or technical school study with major emphasis on mechanical, electrical, or civil engineering or the engineering or construction technologies may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for the required non-supervisory experience.
Other Requirements:
- You must meet the PA residency requirement. For more information on ways to meet PA residency requirements, follow the link and click on Residency Guidelines.
- Hiring preference for this vacancy may be given to candidates who live within Lehigh/Northampton County. If no eligible candidates who live within Lehigh/Northampton County apply for this position, candidates who reside in other counties may be considered.
- You must be able to perform essential job functions.
How to Apply:
- Resumes, cover letters, and similar documents will not be reviewed, and the information contained therein will not be considered for the purposes of determining your eligibility for the position. Information to support your eligibility for the position must be provided on the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education).
- If you are claiming education in your answers to the supplemental application questions, you must attach a copy of your college transcripts for your claim to be accepted toward meeting the minimum requirements. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable.
- Your application must be submitted by the posting closing date. Late applications and other required materials will not be accepted.
- Failure to comply with the above application requirements may eliminate you from consideration for this position.
- All application materials and interview responses must reflect the applicant’s own experience, qualifications, and work. Applicants may use generative AI tools for preparation purposes only. Use of AI to misrepresent or falsify information, or to assist during interviews, is not permitted. Review the Guidance for Generative AI Tools & Job Seekers for additional information.
Veterans:
- Pennsylvania law (51 Pa. C.S. §7103) provides employment preference for qualified veterans for appointment to many state and local government jobs. To learn more about employment preferences for veterans, go to www.pa.gov/agencies/employment/how-to-apply.html and click on Veterans.
Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS):
- 711 (hearing and speech disabilities or other individuals).
If you are contacted for an interview and need accommodations due to a disability, please discuss your request for accommodations with the interviewer in advance of your interview date.
The Commonwealth is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. The Commonwealth values inclusion as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most qualified people to serve the citizens of Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, union membership, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, AIDS or HIV status, disability, or any other categories protected by applicable federal or state law. All diverse candidates are encouraged to apply.
- Completing the application, including all supplemental questions, serves as your exam for this position. No additional exam is required at a test center (also referred to as a written exam).
- Your score is based on the detailed information you provide on your application and in response to the supplemental questions.
- Your score is valid for this specific posting only.
- You must provide complete and accurate information or:
- your score may be lower than deserved.
- you may be disqualified.
- You may only apply/test once for this posting.
- Your results will be provided via email.