General Maintenance Worker (Sc)

Job Title: General Maintenance Worker

Department: Facility Operations and Maintenance

Job Summary:

Performs general maintenance and repair of equipment and buildings requiring practical skill and general knowledge in such trades as painting, carpentry, plumbing, masonry, and electrical work.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

(None)

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Replaces electrical receptacles, wires, switches, fixtures, and motors
• Uses plaster or compound to patch minor holes and cracks in walls and ceilings
• Repairs or replaces sinks, water coolers, and toilets
• Paint structures and equipment
• Repairs or replaces concrete floors, steps, and sidewalks
• Replaces damaged paneling and floor tiles
• Hangs doors and installs door locks and replaces broken windowpanes
• Performs general maintenance on equipment and machinery

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Understand spoken information
• Understand written information
• Read and understand work-related materials
• Follow guidelines to arrange objects or actions in a certain order
• Notice when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong
• Concentrate and not be distracted while performing a task
• Combine several pieces of information and draw conclusions
• Develop rules that group items in various ways
• Judge the costs and benefits of a possible action
• Recognize the nature of a problem
• Understand new information or materials by studying and working with them

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• At least two years related experience required
• Experience working in an outdoor or indoor building environment
• Experience hanging doors, installing door locks, and replacing broken windowpanes preferred
• Able to understand verbal or written direction from lead, supervisor, or other craftsmen

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged period of standing, bending, reaching, and working with hands
• Occasional periods of prolonged exposure to load noises
• Ability to lift up to 75 pounds at times
• Ability to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands as necessary
• Ability to hear and see to position and safety requirement levels
• Occasional exposure to elements such as heat, cold, noise, dust, dirt, and chemicals

Special Qualifications/Requirements:

• Must be able to successfully pass as required a federal, state, or local government's background investigation
• Apprenticeship for HVAC or Electrical
• Must be to pass Department of Defense or HSPD-12 Zone D criminal background check

Disclaimer:

The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and that additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time; or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)