Building Maintenance Worker

Job Description

Job Description

Position: Maintenance

Reports to: Buildings and Grounds Supervisor

Employment Status: Regular/Full-time

Description: Perform maintenance duties which relate to the school plant, buildings, facilities, equipment, and grounds operation

NOTE: The below lists are not ranked in order of importance

Essential Functions:
• Ensure safety of students
• Perform normal operator adjustments and service to facility equipment such as, but not limited to, compressors, HVAC system, and assist in maintaining records on operational and maintenance activities
• Assume primary responsibility for the safe condition of electric elements in the facilities owned or operated by the school district
• Perform general maintenance work inside and outside the physical plant such as ceiling, roof, electrical, welding, plumbing, concrete, masonry, glazing, insulation, tile, pump, and fan repairs
• Perform general labor inside and outside the physical plant including districtwide groundskeeping, handling materials and supplies, moving equipment, operating power-driver equipment, truck driving, snow plowing, mowing, etc.
• Recommend supplies and equipment for purchase
• Conduct periodical inspections of the facilities
• Promote good safety practices and procedures
• Repair and maintain HVAC, motors, and filters
• Inspect roofs for leaks and repair
• Repair and maintain electrical components, e.g., install new circuits, run new wire, install new breakers
• Renew plumbing components, e.g., clean sewer lines, replace fixtures
• Assemble and install educational equipment
• Repair doors, windows and vents
• Repair masonry structures
• Assist with custodial or maintenance duties

Other Duties and Responsibilities:
• Maintain all safety and code requirements of the federal, state, and local board of education guidelines
• Order and account for material and labor relative to assignments
• Maintain the inventory of district-owned hand tools, equipment, hardware, materials and supplies
• Conduct routine and periodic inspections of school and facilities as part of a preventative maintenance program
• Assist in the control of all maintenance and custodial tools and supplies
• Ensure the care, condition, appearance, repair, or replacement of all physical equipment, buildings, facilities and grounds
• Complete paperwork as necessary
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Buildings and Grounds Supervisor

Qualifications:
• High school diploma or equivalent
• Experience or knowledge of all building trade skills
• Valid driver’s license
• Alternatives to the above qualifications as the Superintendent and/or Board of Education may find appropriate

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Ability to work effectively with others
• Ability to communicate ideas and directives clearly and effectively both orally and in writing
• Effective, active listening skills
• Organizational and problem solving skills
• Basic understanding of electricity, plumbing, carpentry, roofing and glazing
• Training in the proper care and storage of chemicals, e.g., hazards communication training
• Ability to read and understand verbal and written instructions, written warnings, and labels
• Basic understanding of electricity, plumbing, welding, carpentry, roofing, and glazing
• Ability to operate machinery
• Ability to distinguish colors for electrical wiring purposes
• Training in OSHA/PERRP rules and regulations

Equipment Operated:
• Pickup truck
• Carpentry tools
• Electrical tools
• Various hand tools and power tools

Additional Working Conditions:
• Occasional exposure to blood, bodily fluids and tissue
• Occasional operation of a vehicle in inclement weather conditions, i.e., must be prepared to come to school on all scheduled work days except calamity days
• Occasional evening/weekend work
• Frequent travel between buildings and to get supplies
• Occasional repetitive hand motion, e.g., use of hand tools
• Frequent requirement to work near moving mechanical parts, e.g., drill press, circular saw, table saw, hand tools
• Occasional requirement to work in high places
• Occasional exposure to fumes, airborne particles, toxic, dangerous, or caustic chemicals, e.g., chlorine, asbestos, welding dust
• Occasional exposure to loud noises, e.g., power tools

This job description is subject to change and in no manner states or implies that these are the only duties and responsibilities to be performed by the incumbent. The incumbent will be required to follow the instructions and perform the duties required by the incumbent’s supervisor, appointing authority.