Facilities Maintenance Technician

Join Redmond!

The City of Redmond is a thriving, culturally diverse community, and home to over 80,000 residents. Redmond is the hub of an array of commerce and industry ranging from technology, aerospace, and gaming to biomedical and innovation start-ups. In this role, you will represent the city, and our values of service, integrity, accountability, belonging and stewardship.

The Parks Department Facilities Maintenance Team is responding to the growing needs of the city. The fast-paced nature of our municipality drives innovation and efficiency. We are currently hiring for a Maintenance Technician Parks.

Now you have an opportunity to join our Parks & Recreation department as a Facilities Maintenance Technician. This is a role responsible for the daily facilities maintenance of the City of Redmond's 27 City-owned and/or operated buildings with a variety of maintenance including but not limited to HVAC, electrical, plumbing, carpentry, painting, and general building systems. In this role, you join a team with the goal of providing welcoming, clean, accessible, and safe environments for City employees and the public.

Besides a great work environment, this position also offers a 9/80 work schedule. A 9/80 work schedule is a two-week schedule that divides 80 working hours amongst 9 days, typically consisting of eight 9-hour days, one 8-hour day, and every other Monday off. This position may be subject to after-hours on-call standby shifts.

If you are ready for a career in municipal facilities maintenance, and you consider yourself to have a customer-first mindset and broad building maintenance knowledge, then we'd love to see you apply.

Role & Responsibilities

• Responsible for maintenance and repair of City buildings, structures to include HVAC, electrical, plumbing, carpentry, painting and other general building maintenance.
• Assist with management of City vendor contracts including providing access and monitoring/coordinating work.
• Perform plumbing repairs to sinks, drinking fountains, drains, showers, toilets, sewer and storm systems.
• Read, interpret and utilize blueprints
• Install, maintain and repair building access systems including lock combination, key cutting and inventory, core combination, hardware installation and basic repair of electronic access devices.
• Troubleshoot and repair gates, garage doors, fire doors and other automated access devices.
• Perform winterization of domestic water lines and fire suppression systems.
• Maintain road infrastructure and asphalt repair (pathways and parking areas)
• Install, maintain, troubleshoot and repair electrical systems.
• Troubleshoot, repair and maintain life safety systems including fire alarms, intrusion alarms and fire suppression systems.
• Perform commercial building modifications including structure changes like framing of walls, adding electrical outlets, improving lighting or otherwise reconfiguring buildings to better fulfill their intended purpose.
• Interior surface repairs such as drywall, tile and flooring.
• Interior and exterior surface prep and painting.
• Basic inspection and operational checks of HVAC and building plant components.
• Clean and/or repair building exteriors including roofs, gutters, windows, hard surfaces and walls.
• Installation of building amenities such as whiteboards, bulletin boards, televisions and artwork.
• Perform janitorial duties.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Any combination equivalent to high school diploma or equivalency and one (1) year construction or trades experience.

Licenses and Certificates

• Valid Washington State Driver's License and a driving record that meets City standards.
• Additional licenses and certificates may be required:

• CDL, Class A
• Washington State Department of Transportation Traffic Flagging Certification
• First Aid/CPR

Other

This class description describes the general nature of the work performed, representative duties as well as the typical qualifications needed for acceptable performance. It is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of the job.

Please review the Maintenance Tech job description for more information about the knowledge, skills, abilities, working conditions, and physical requirements.

Benefits

Our employees earn competitive wages and enjoy an exceptional benefits package that includes:

• MEDICAL INSURANCE - Choice of two plans for employees and their eligible dependents: Premera or Kaiser Permanente. All employee healthcare premiums paid for by the City of Redmond.
• PRESCRIPTION DRUG INSURANCE - Included with each medical plan
• DENTAL INSURANCE - For employees and their eligible dependents
• VISION INSURANCE - For employees and their eligible dependents
• OTHER INSURANCE - Life, accidental death & dismemberment insurance, short and long-term disability, optional employee-paid voluntary life insurance
• FLEXIBLE SPENDING ACCOUNTS - For tax savings on healthcare and dependent care expenses
• PAID VACATION & HOLIDAYS with (13) paid holidays per year
• EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (EAP)
• RETIREMENT PLANS - Department of Retirement Systems (DRS) plus additional options that include: Municipal Employees Benefit Trust (Social Security replacement plan) and MetLife 457 Plan
• Annual COLA adjustments
• Annual merit increases of up to 5%

To learn about benefits at the City of Redmond, please visit C2MB (ajg.com)