Summer Camp ~ Assistant Facilities Director ~ Western Massachusetts

Stockbridge MA

Description

Camp Mah-Kee-Nac (www.campmkn.com) seeks an Assistant Caretaker to join our Facilities Management Team. This position has the potential for growth and advancement. Mah-Kee-Nac is a boys sleepaway summer camp situated on 72 gorgeous acres on the beautiful Stockbridge Bowl in Lenox, Massachusetts. Camp Mah-Kee-Nac is 45 minutes from Albany, and 2 hours from Boston. This is a year-round, full-time position with benefits and paid vacation. In this position, each week, day, and hour is different from the last. Each day you will get to be creative, solve problems, and work alongside good people. You get to put into play broad knowledge of carpentry, plumbing, electrical, landscaping and more to make things happen for a great community. This isn’t an ordinary facilities position. Mah-Kee-Nac is a sleepaway camp community of 350 people. The summer days are full of great activity, food, sports, adventure, waterfront and magic. Our facilities team are the people behind the magic. For the right person, this is a dream job. Description The Mah-Kee-Nac Assistant Caretaker is directly responsible for assisting in the supervision and execution of a program of development, upkeep, maintenance and repair of the entire physical plant of Camp Mah-Kee-Nac. This position reports directly to the Camp Director and Facilities Director. The Mah-Kee-Nac physical plant encompasses 72 acres of woodland and program area (fields, buildings, courses, roads, courts, bridges, and paths), and has an extensive lakefront on The Stockbridge Bowl. Mah-Kee-Nac boasts approximately 60 individual buildings, two baseball fields, two soccer fields, two football fields, 12 tennis courts, 4 basketball courts, a field house, dining hall, office, and adventure/high ropes course among many other features. Required Hard Skills / Knowledge Basic proficiency in computers: email, excel, word, google docs, ability to learn simple maintenance software, able to use smartphone. General knowledge of facilities. Conversant in, and understands the basics of electrical systems, straightforward structures (cabins, sheds, offices), plumbing, septic, and landscaping. Able to supervise a small team (at least one year-round facilities worker and a crew of 3-5 seasonal workers May-August). Framing and Carpentry: can frame out a rough building. Can build decks, docks, railings, interior walls that are level and square. Plumbing: can fix and maintain sinks, toilets, showers and pipes leading to and from buildings. Septic: understands the basics of how simple waste systems work: filters, holding tanks, leach fields, and waste conveyance. How to respond to pump alarms. Electrical: can fix, maintain, and wire basic light switches, AC units, outlets. Can troubleshoot basic electrical problems x ahead of the arrival of an electrician. Landscaping: understands the basics of soil, water, and topography. Can install French drains, understand basics of water flow underground, drainage, and keep lawns and fields green. Understands basics of pruning, gardens, compost. Small engines: can fix and maintain small engines and tools such as mowers, weed-whackers, 1-3 horsepower water/fluid pumps, and power hand tools. Internal combustion engines: has some level of diagnostic ability with tractors, trucks and cars. Capable of water testing and reporting. (we use lake water for drinking water and chlorinate it) Can safely operate: cars, trucks, dump trucks, tractors. Can tow a heavy trailer. Can operate a snow plow. Can safely operate power tools (drills, nail guns, etc), and large shop machines (table saws, drill presses, bandsaws, planer, jointer, etc). Can safely operate a chainsaw (full safety equipment, chainsaw maintenance and sharpening) Can execute basic concrete projects (small pads, footings for posts, sonotubes) Required Traits Calm Low ego - not afraid to ask questions, admit when out of depth, try new things Hard-working. Trustworthy. Respectful of varied cultures, people, and perspectives. Organized. (can maintain inventory lists and manage ordering, manage others’ workflows) Able to manage multiple workflows. Good with people. Especially young people. Able to teach and train unskilled-but-motivated young people, year-over-year. Able to own and manage the yearly maintenance calendar (along with Camp Director). Able to inspire and maintain an excellent safety culture. Able to find creative solutions to issues with physical plant. Loves the outdoors. Required Experience Successful history of leading small teams. Solid background in facilities work and/or facilities management of some kind. Proven success working well with people of different backgrounds, ages, and perspectives. Advanced Traits, Skills, Knowledge Full project management of a build-project from beginning to end (permits to final landscaping) Basic computer-aided-drawing and planning (not necessarily CAD, but programs like Floor Planner, etc). Budget management Creation and curation of 3-year and 5-year facilities plan Creation of unusual or unique buildings (treehouses, pergolas, fanciful children’s structures) Basics of welding (Tiig, Miig, Stick) Larger scale concrete projects (large pads, structure-sized footings, etc) An engineering mindset. Combining a series of lower-level skills to solve higher-level challenges (levers, weight, counterweight, tractors, pulleys, buoyancy, etc). Yearly Calendar Summers are extremely busy (six days a week). Fall is much more quiet, as is winter. Our facilities staff store up their extra days in the summer and then enjoy many three-day weekends in the Berkshires glorious fall weather. No vacations are taken Mid-May through the end of August, but then the calendar gets much more fluid. Compensation This position pays a yearly salary that is commensurate with the experience of the successful candidate. A normal range is 40-50k per year. This position comes with benefits: dental, medical, and a 401k. Further, this position comes with the option to live at Camp Mah-Kee-Nac in our Caretaker’s house, which would mean free housing, utilities, and wi-fi for the entire year each year, as well as access to Mah-Kee-Nac’s physical plant and equipment. Serious inquiries only, please send a letter and resume to [email protected]. Read more about Mah-Kee-Nac at www.campmkn.com. This position is open until filled.