Building Maintenance Worker

Building Maintenance Worker

The Building Maintenance Worker performs a wide range of maintenance and repair duties to ensure City facilities, buildings, and equipment remain safe, functional, and in good condition. This role performs assignments approaching the journey level across multiple trades—including carpentry, electrical, painting, plumbing, and welding—while operating a variety of tools and shop equipment. The position also assists skilled trades staff, performs installations and minor construction, and helps maintain records related to maintenance work and inventory.

The ideal candidate will be reliable, detail-oriented, and capable of working both independently and as part of a team. They will possess strong hands-on experience in building maintenance and demonstrate technical proficiency across a variety of trades such as carpentry, electrical, plumbing, painting, and basic welding. The ideal candidate will be comfortable operating mechanical tools and shop equipment, able to troubleshoot facility and equipment issues, and committed to producing high-quality workmanship while continuously developing their skills.

Duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Maintain and repair City facilities, equipment, and buildings by performing carpentry, electrical, painting, plumbing, and welding duties approaching the journey level.
• Assist crafts workers in remodeling, repairing, and constructing such items as partitions, room additions, counters, tables, book cases, floors, roofs, and mechanical equipment.
• Install, maintain, and repair carpeting, floor tile, linoleum, wood floors, ceramic tile, and other surfaces.
• Operate mechanical saws, buffers, lathes, drills, paint sprayers, drill presses, arc and acetylene welding units, and other shop machinery and tools.
• Fabricate, using metal and wood materials, in order to build and repair brackets, braces, and fasteners.
• Keep records on inventory and service and maintenance work performed.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

Knowledge of:

• Methods and procedures used in carpentry, electrical, painting, plumbing, mechanical, welding, and other trades work.
• Hand and power tools used in carpentry, electrical, painting, plumbing, mechanical, and welding work.
• Building materials and supplies used in the various trades including:

• Carpentry: Grades and types of lumber, proper uses and sizing of wood, screws, nails, glues, and other fasteners and tools used and safety precautions.
• Electrical: Tools, minor testing equipment, sizes and types of wires, fuses, and safety precautions.
• Painting: Types of paints, stains, lacquers, and varnishes; methods of preparing surfaces; and uses and safety precautions concerning painting.
• Plumbing: Sizes, types, and composition of common pipes used in plumbing; and uses and safety precaution concerning plumbing tools.
• Mechanical: Ducting, registers, fasteners, and filters.
• Welding: Types, sizes, and uses of welding rods and materials used in arc and gas welding.

Ability to:

• Understand and follow oral and written instructions.
• Carry out work assignments independently or with a minimum of supervision.
• Perform a variety of craft related work in mechanical and building maintenance and repair.
• Use a variety of hand and power tools competently and safely.
• Read, write, and speak the English language at a level necessary for efficient job performance.

Experience and Education: Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and skills would be:

• Experience: Three years of experience performing a variety of maintenance and/or construction work including work in one or more of the following trades: carpentry, electrical, painting, plumbing, mechanical, and welding.
• OR One year of work experience performing a variety of maintenance and/or construction work including work in one or more of the following trades: carpentry, electrical, painting, plumbing, mechanical, and welding AND completion of at least two years of a recognized apprenticeship program in one of the trades.

Proof of education should be submitted with your application and will be required at the time of appointment. Unofficial documents and/or copies are acceptable.

An applicant with a college degree obtained outside the United States must have education records evaluated by a credential's evaluation service. Evaluation of education records will be due at time of appointment.

Employees must complete twelve (12) months of probation at a satisfactory performance level prior to gaining permanent status.

The City of Sacramento's preferred method of communication with applicants is via e-mail. As such, please ensure you verify the e-mail address on your application, and check your e-mail frequently, including your spam and junk folders. All e-mail notifications can also be accessed through the governmentjobs.com applicant inbox.

1. Application: (Pass/Fail) – All applicants must complete and submit online a City of Sacramento employment application by the final filing deadline ;

• Employment applications must be submitted online; paper applications will not be accepted.
• Employment applications will be considered incomplete and will be disqualified:
• If applicants do not list current and/or past job-related experience in the duties area of the "Work Experience" section. Note: Qualifying experience is based on full-time experience (40 hours per week). Qualifying experience is calculated to the full-time equivalent (pro-rated if less than 40 hours/week).
• If "see resume" is noted in the "Work Experience" section; a resume will not substitute for the information required in the "Work Experience" section.
• Proof of education such as, but not limited to, university/college transcripts and degrees should be submitted online with your application. Proof of education will be required at time of appointment.
• Position/job titles will not be considered in determining eligibility for meeting the minimum qualifications for this position.
• If you're requesting Veteran's credit, a copy of your DD214 must be submitted online with your application or emailed to the Employment Office by the final filing deadline. Information regarding the use of Veteran's credit can be found in the Civil Service Board rules under rule 4.9C. (Download PDF reader)
• Applicants are responsible for attaching a copy of their DD214 to each position for which they apply.

2. Training and Experience Exam : (Weighted 100%) – The questions located at the end of the application are the Training and Experience (T&E) Exam. Responses to the T&E questions will be rated and scored. This exam will evaluate the relevance, level, and progression of a candidate's education, training and experience. The exam score will determine your ranking on the eligible list for this job. When completing the T&E questions, please note:

• Responses to the T&E questions must be submitted online; paper questionnaires will not be accepted.
• A resume will not substitute for the information required in the T&E questions.

3. Eligibility : Candidates who pass the Training and Experience Test will be placed on the eligible list. The hiring department may contact candidates for interview at any time during the life of the one-year list. Candidate's eligibility expires one year from the date of notification of a passing score for the Building Maintenance Worker examination.

4. Screening Committee : (Pass/Fail)– All candidates that pass the examination and are in one of the top three ranks will have their application forwarded to the hiring department for review. The hiring department will select the most competitive applications for further consideration. Human Resources will only evaluate employment applications for the minimum qualifications, as stated on the job announcement, for applications selected by the hiring department.

5. Conditional Hire: Upon receipt of a conditional offer, the selected candidate must complete and pass LiveScan/fingerprinting. If applicable, candidates may also need to pass a pre-employment medical exam, controlled substance and/or alcohol test, and possess any required licensure or certification prior to receiving a start date from the Department. Failure to meet these prerequisites will be grounds for withdrawal of your conditional offer of employment.

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