Interview Questions-Maintenance Superintendent Candidate
Interview Questions
Maintenance Superintendent
April 11, 2012
1. Review for us your education and work experience and how they qualify you for this
position.
2. Please tell us about your experience supervising employees. Please be specific about
how many and what types of employees you supervised.
3. Please tell us about your experience operating, maintaining and selecting heavy
equipment.
4. What knowledge and experience do you have with maintaining roads,both paved and
unpaved?
5. Scandia's roads are aging and a recent pavement management study showed that we
are falling behind on maintenance. Tell us about how you might approach this
problem?
6. Snow plowing season is coming up. What are some of the best strategies for effective
and fast snow and ice control?
7. What knowledge and experience do you have with sewer and water systems? We are
particularly interested in smaller sewer systems with sub-surface treatment (Scandia
has 3.)
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8. Maintenance of our surface water and drainage infrastructure has been somewhat
neglected. How would you incorporate this into the maintenance schedule/program?
9. Much of our building maintenance has been about reacting to problems. How do you
make sure there's adequate preventive maintenance?
10. How do you know when it's best to contract out a job, or do it in house?
11. Tell us about your experience working with contractors. How do you make sure that
the city gets what it paid for?
12. Tell us about your computer skills and experience?
13. How do you foster team work with and among the staff inembers you supervise?
14. How do you track citizen complaints and ensure follow-up?
15. What questions do you have for us?