General Maintenance Technician

Job Title

HES Facilities Management

Job Description

HES is a premier national provider of facilities management services focused 100% on educational institutions. Headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, HES builds best-in-class programs for custodial, maintenance, grounds, and landscaping services. With hundreds of years of combined facilities experience, the HES leadership team is comprised of results-oriented, hands-on executives and facilities experts who give school facilities their full attention. Whether for a grounds and landscaping program, custodial services, or maintenance solutions, HES will change the way you look at facilities management.

Founded in 1972, HES has a proven track record of working successfully and exclusively in the educational environment, maintaining a singular focus on facilities management, undistracted by competing priorities. HES has earned the trust of over 150 education partners across 29 states. We employ 13,000 dedicated team members and maintain more than 200 million square feet daily.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

General Maintenance

• Perform general building maintenance and repairs throughout offices, classrooms, common areas, residential-style spaces, and other facility areas.
• Complete room and space turnovers using skills similar to apartment make-ready work.
• Patch, repair, and paint walls, ceilings, doors, trim, and other building surfaces.
• Perform minor drywall repairs, including patching holes, repairing damaged areas, sanding, and finishing.
• Perform minor carpentry work including repairing or replacing trim, shelving, cabinets, doors, and hardware.
• Adjust, repair, and replace doors, hinges, closers, handles, and related hardware.
• Perform minor plumbing repairs such as replacing faucets and fixtures, repairing minor leaks, replacing toilet components, clearing minor sink and fixture blockages, and replacing supply lines and similar components.
• Perform minor electrical maintenance within the technician's authorized scope, including replacing lamps/light bulbs, replacing damaged covers, basic lighting troubleshooting, and approved plug-and-play or non-energized components as permitted.
• Repair or replace ceiling tiles, floor tiles, transition strips, baseboards, and other building finishes.
• Install and relocate wall-mounted items such as whiteboards, bulletin boards, signage, shelving, pictures/artwork, dispensers, and building accessories.
• Assemble and repair office furniture, shelving, cabinets, tables, and similar equipment.
• Inspect completed spaces to identify maintenance deficiencies and ensure spaces are ready for occupancy.
• Maintain clean and professional work areas and remove debris following maintenance activities.

Office Moves & Furniture Relocation

• Assist with office, department, and employee relocations.
• Move and relocate desks, tables, chairs, filing cabinets, shelving, office equipment, packed boxes, and modular furniture components.
• Disassemble furniture as necessary for relocation and reassemble furniture at the new location.
• Protect walls, floors, doors, elevators, and other building surfaces during moves.
• Use hand trucks, dollies, carts, furniture movers, and other material-handling equipment safely.
• Coordinate moves with supervisors, facility staff, building occupants, and other departments.
• Arrange furniture according to approved layouts or customer instructions.
• Remove unwanted furniture and equipment and relocate items to designated storage, surplus, or disposal areas.
• Maintain organized furniture and equipment storage areas.

Event Setup & Breakdown

• Perform setup and breakdown for meetings, conferences, ceremonies, special events, and other scheduled activities.
• Set up and arrange tables, chairs, podiums, staging, barricades, signage, trash/recycling containers, and other event-related equipment.
• Configure rooms based on event diagrams, work orders, or customer instructions.
• Reset rooms and spaces following events.
• Relocate event equipment between buildings, storage locations, and event areas.
• Inspect event areas prior to scheduled use to ensure setups are complete, safe, clean, and properly arranged.
• Respond to last-minute event setup changes when operationally necessary.

Physical Requirements

• Stand and walk for extended periods.
• Bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, push, and pull.
• Climb and work from ladders within authorized limits.
• Use hand and power tools.
• Frequently lift up to 50 pounds independently.

Work Schedule

• Regular full-time schedule as assigned by site management.
• Schedule may include occasional evenings, weekends, or adjusted hours to support special events, office relocations, emergencies or operational requirements.

Additional Information / Benefits

Optional daily pay

Benefits: Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Paid Vacation, Paid Sick Days, Paid Holidays, 401K/403b Plan

This is a Full-Time position