Maintenance Worker

GENERAL DEFINITION: This is semi-skilled maintenance and repair work at the full performance level personally effecting repairs to machinery equipment and related facilities and/or assisting skilled trades positions. A position in this class operates a truck light tractor with mower attachment or similar vehicle and/or makes routine repairs to facilities furnishings systems or machinery. Work may include work at higher or lower-skill levels as part of a developmental assignment or on an incidental basis. A position in this class is differentiated from positions in closely related classes in the breadth of work and the routine nature of the work performed. A position in this class may receive instructions and direction from a skilled trades position but reports directly to a higher-level trades or technical supervisory position.

TYPICAL EXAMPLES OF WORK: (Illustrative Only)

• Works with higher-level trades personnel to service repair and test equipment machinery and/or structural elements of facility; carries and positions tools and materials to job site and during work; assists in effecting repair; starts up and/or shuts down equipment and machinery such as laundry boiler plant and other such equipment; cleans equipment brushing and dusting debris from burners hatches pipes and conduits; carries materials supplies tools and replacement parts to job site positioning for testing installation or other activity; keeps work and storage area in orderly condition; makes notes or records of activities including materials used repair or other activity undertaken and particular circumstances of each job.

• Drives dump truck flatbed truck and/or similar vehicles to haul gravel cement brush or other materials; operates a light tractor with attachments; operates hand and bench power tools such as air compressors jack hammers and painting and spraying equipment; provides routine cleaning and preventive maintenance for such equipment and vehicles.

• Spreads and rakes gravel or asphalt in the patching and resurfacing of driveways; prunes sprays feeds and fertilizes stakes and otherwise cares for trees and shrubs in park areas; rough finishes concrete and performs pointing tasks.

• Performs other work as assigned.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Basic knowledge of methods and techniques tools materials and safety precautions commonly employed in mechanical and structural maintenance and repair work.

• Ability to operate a dump truck flatbed truck light tractor with attachments or similar motor vehicles.

• Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions.

• Ability to keep records of activities.

• Ability to lift carry and maneuver into position a variety of heavy and/or unwieldy tools and materials.

• Ability to work in close proximity to nursing facility patients families and visitors if required by work assignment.

ACCEPTABLE TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:

• Education equivalent to completion of the tenth school grade.

• Six to twelve months experience in equipment or facility maintenance or repair work.

• Or any equivalent combination of training and experience which has provided the knowledge skills and abilities cited above.

BACKGROUND CHECK:

YES

BARGAINING UNIT:

NO