Program Technician/facility Co-ordinator

BCIT’s
- **School of Transportation** is seeking a
- **regular, full-time (1.0**
**FTE**
**) Program Technician/Facility Coordinator.** This position supports the educational activities on campus, ensuring that training equipment is acquired, maintained, repaired, and ready to use as required. This position also provides coordination and logístical support for campus operations, and internal/external events on campus. This position is also the primary provider of first aid on campus. This position is the on-site contact for campus and school staff, for issues related to day-to-day facilities management, and liaises with the externally contracted Building Operator and BCIT Project Services staff.**Duties & Responsibilities**

**DUTIES**
**&**
**RESPONSIBILITIES***:
**Program Technician**
- Maintains the training tank and surrounding areas on a daily basis:

- Including testing and adjusting chemicals to the appropriate levels
- Performing annual maintenance and makes recommendations as appropriate
- Keeps records for provincial health inspection and provides maintenance according to licensing body regulations and department requirements
- Ensures the tank, deck area and surrounding rooms are clean and orderly
- Maintains the life raft shop equipment, jetty installations and buildings. Inspects and ensures tools and equipment are kept in accordance to manufacturer and industry standards. Ensures that work area is kept clean and in a safe and proactive condition
- Inspects and maintains marine emergency duties training equipment such as immersion suits, personal floatation devices, recharging CO2 cylinders, ensures life-rafts are functional and completes minor repairs when necessary; repacks life-rafts according to manufacturer standards
- Maintains life boats and hoisting equipment to ensure they are in good standing with manufacturers and Transport Canada requirements by providing routine maintenance checks; services and performs minor repairs as required; maintains wet weather gear and coveralls and replaces as required
- Ensures all records, logs of inspection and services for life boats, davits, hoisting and lifting equipment, and life-raft shop equipment are kept up-to-date and organized
- Ensures adequate levels of training materials are on hand; prepares purchase requisitions or acquires supplies using the corporate purchase card system
- Serves as the main marine campus contact for marine industry equipment and service providers
- Ensures the yearly Capital Asset inventory is done accurately, timely and that inventory lists are maintained throughout the year. Assigns asset tags to newly acquired equipment as required
- Participates in internal and external audits for the purpose of maintaining accreditation
- Provides trouble-shooting/assistance to instructors, staff and clients for audio visual set-up and coordinates with internal departments for additional support when required
- Provides ad-hoc assistance to campus staff for connectivity issues related to AV and IT equipment; ensures the availability of audiovisual resources and maintains knowledge of campus A/V inventory
- Acts as WHMIS coordinator for the campus and maintains WHMIS/MSDS documentation and various other certificates

**First Aid Attendant/Emergency Preparedness**
- In accordance with BCIT/Worksafe BC policies and procedures this position:
- Applies first aid to injured or ill patients by assessing their condition, providing basic treatment, or referring patient to appropriate outside agency such as calling an ambulance, or referring patient to a physician
- Records all visits to first aid room in the accident record book and ensures all required reports are completed and filed, keeping management informed of first aid incidents
- Monitors, restocks and prepares purchase requisitions for replenishment of first aid supplies
- Attends Occupational Health and Safety meetings as the campus first aid attendant
- Participates as liaison for BCIT Emergency Management dept., participating in monthly testing of satellite emergency response system and BCIT’s emergency response events

**Facility Coordinator**
- Receives information on campus deficiencies or areas requiring attention from campus staff and submits them to facilities service providers/building operators via Archibus work request system.
- Ensures effective/timely communications back to campus staff on status of requests submitted through Archibus
- Serves as the marine campus liaison during approved project work; coordinating with the relevant project coordinator within the BCIT Project Services Group as required
- Provides facility service providers/building operators with required information related to space usage and schedules to minimize disruption to campus activities. Communicates maintenance and project impacts to BMC management and user departments
- Participates in monthly facilities meetings
- Provides internal logístical support for supplies, equipment, furnitu