Senior Maintenance Supervisor

Posting number: 26-01033

Department: DPWES Solid Waste Management

Job classification: SR MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR

Posting type: Open

Categories: Maintenance

Summary

$2,500 Signing Bonus*

Ready to drive change? Step into a lead role where you direct heavy-equipment crews, ensure seamless waste operations, and serve as a vital first responder, keeping the Fairfax County community moving and safe.

This position leads, plans, and supervises heavy-equipment crews for daily refuse disposal and solid waste transport. You’ll oversee equipment maintenance, manage operational records, and play a critical role in local disaster and emergency response efforts for the Solid Waste Management Program (SWMP).

DPWES is a diverse, nationally accredited, and award-winning public works agency with approximately 1,000 employees providing solid waste, capital facility development, wastewater, stormwater, urban forestry, and land acquisition management services for the most populous county in Virginia. Join our team to help us protect the environment and serve the people of Fairfax County by creating and preserving a sustainable community that is an ideal place to live, work, and play for everyone.

Fairfax County Government is committed to our employees, and offers comprehensive benefits, including a defined retirement benefit plan; medical, life, and disability insurance; paid leave; tuition reimbursement; and reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. Throughout LiveWell Program and the county Benefits Division, we endeavor to cultivate a culture of wellbeing that empowers, educates, and engages employees and retirees to make lifelong choices that promote a holistic approach to their physical, mental, emotional, social, spiritual, and financial wellness. Please review our awesome benefits:

• Benefits
• Retirement

Responsibilities Include:

• Under general supervision, plans, coordinates, and supervises the work of the crew operating heavy equipment for refuse disposal, collection, and transportation of solid waste.
• Organizes the crew's tasks, including operating heavy equipment, and evaluates staff workloads. Also, provide coaching and training to the staff.
• Responsible for coordinating preventive and corrective maintenance on vehicles and equipment, keeping operational records, and managing the maintenance of grounds and facilities.
• Responds appropriately to a variety of situations, including vehicle incidents, customer service complaints, on-the-job injuries, and safety violations.
• Responsible for ensuring that the safety protocols and procedures for equipment and vehicles are followed by crew members.
• Operate and load various heavy equipment and vehicles (CDL and non-CDL), including refuse trucks, forklifts, bobcats, and seasonal maintenance equipment like snowplows and leaf machines.
• Oversee cash collections and perform reconciliations of receipts using a computerized scale system and maintain operational records.
• Responsible for providing customer service to both internal and external customers. 
• Performs other related duties as required.

Note: Position is designated as Emergency Service Personnel. Employees in this position must fulfill emergency service duties and comply with Solid Waste and DPWES safety programs and guidelines. The appointees to these positions will be required to be available twenty-four hours a day/seven days a week (24/7) to respond to snow, flooding, and other designated emergencies on an as-needed basis.

This announcement may be used at the following location:

• I-66 Transfer Station, located at 4618 West Ox Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030.

*A $2,500 signing bonus is available to new county employees hired into positions requiring a CDL. Applicants must possess a valid CDL at time of application submission to be eligible.

Examples of duties

(The illustrative duties listed in this specification are representative of the class but are not an all- inclusive list. A complete list of position duties and unique physical requirements can be found in the position description.) 

• Plans work schedules, assigns work to crew chiefs, maintenance supervisors, heavy equipment operators, and work crews and determines the priority of work projects based on pending work orders and citizen complaints;
• Supervises crew activities in the field;
• Dispatches work crews and coordinates work with other county or state agencies and/or contractors;
• Inspects sewage syst