Maintenance Mechanic

Maintenance Mechanic

Duties include:

• Constructs, alters, repairs, and modifies items made of metal, wood, and wood substitutes.
• Assembles/disassembles, installs, repairs and modifies steel stud framing, wood and wood structures for structural soundness to include creating or working from complex drawings as a layout of the entire floor plan, ensuring assembly is consistent with building codes, safety standards, local standards, and manufacturing standards.
• Mixes and finishes plaster and applies to walls and ceilings, taking into consideration type of lathing, required thickness, weather conditions, etc.
• Selects proper tools and materials for work to be accomplished.
• Patches and repairs damaged plaster or stucco surfaces and repairs and finishes gypsum walls by applying joint compound and tape to cracks and joints.
• Removes and installs flooring, ceramic tile, structural and glazed tiles for walls, floors and ceilings in medical offices and various locations each requiring special consideration due to type of activity, location and, infectious control requirements.
• Maintains, repairs, alters and renovates the interior and exterior structures built from concrete, block, ceramic tiles by preparing and spreading mortar or adhesive, cutting, shaping, and laying blocks and tiles, and finishing joints.
• Locate leaks, determines cause and extent of damages to the facility, and determines the type of work to be conducted and proper techniques and methods.
• Reads, interprets, plans, lays out and performs work accordingly to building plans, blueprints, drawings, as-builts, oral and written instructions and from maintenance complaints or requests.
• Applies materials or paint using acceptable trade methods such as brushes, rollers, spray guns, graining devices and devices that give special effects.
• Examines and assesses state of aged or damaged structures and equipment.
• Operates tools such as a table saw, circular saw, drill press, jack hammer, hand tools, measuring devices, and other equipment that are required by carpenters.
• Conducts medical facility oversight and rounding for LP steam and hot water boilers from OHE.
• Startup, warm up and shutdown of boiler. Operation of all equipment and controls.
• Have skill in operating and using power and hand tools and other woodworking equipment such as portable drills, clippers, joiners, shavers, tenoners, sanders, routers, power activated nailers, combustion type saws, screw fasteners, drill presses, and table saws.
• Performs work from verbal instructions, work orders, and wiring diagrams. Voltage is usually from 120 to 277 volts.
• Must have the ability to read and follow directions that explain how to apply and use prepared solvents and thin and stir coating materials.
• Repairs and installs wall and door framing, drywall, including taping and spackling and use of plaster when situations warrant.

Work Schedule: 1:00pm - 11:30pm, Monday - Thursday, subject to change based on the needs of the service Position Description Title/PD#: Maintenance Mechanic/PD04569A