Maintenance Worker 1

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Be part of a workforce where innovation and teamwork support the community and citizens of Monroe County.

Compensation: $19.86 - $30.78

Job Description

The primary function of this position is to perform moderately heavy janitorial duties in maintaining county buildings and facilities. This position also performs semi-skilled work in assisting in repairing and maintaining property and grounds using a variety of machines, tools, equipment, and inmate labor.

Essential Job Functions

• Sanitizes restrooms and empties trash.
• Vacuums all carpets.
• Cleans furniture.
• Maintains the appearance of the grounds.
• Cleans floors, sweeps, mops, waxes, etc.
• Helps move files, desks, furniture, etc.
• Dusts desks, shelves, window blinds, etc.
• Cleans windows and window seals.
• Drives County vehicles transporting tools, equipment, and inmate workers to worksite.
• Observes all rules related to the use of inmate labor, including paperwork, supervision, transport, sign-in/sign-out, safety supervision, and adherence of all workers and co-workers to the rules for inmate workers established by the Sheriff.
• Maintains required qualifications for signing out inmate workers.
• Performs other related job duties as assigned.
• In the event of special, emergency, or disaster situations, employee may be required to work schedules other than those for which they are regularly scheduled in any capacity deemed appropriate.

Qualifications

Education and Experience: High School Diploma or GED. No prior related work experience is required.

Special Qualifications: Must be able to understand and communicate in English. A valid Florida Driver's License is required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to have guidelines for work but determine the approach for doing the work; supervisor focuses on the outcomes of work.
• Ability to perform specific clerical or manual tasks. Ability to perform copying, maintaining files, or entering data OR utilizing light mechanical equipment such as a vehicle, lawn mower, or hand tool OR clean and maintain a facility.
• Ability to follow specific procedures that may result in interaction with co-workers, citizens, or other individuals. Ability to make a few decisions regarding own activities and priorities.
• Ability to work with less than ten co-workers who are mostly engaged in the same activities.

Physical Demands

The work is light and requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
• Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the legs and spine.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture, by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at the knee to come to a rest on the knee or knees.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Manual Dexterity: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Mental Acuity: Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul, or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward, or outward.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Visual Acuity: Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.

Work Environment

Work is performed in a relatively safe, secure, and stable work environment.

Monroe County has the right to revise this job description at any time. This description does not represent in any way a contract of employment.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Monroe County does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, or military service in employment or the provision of services.

Empleador de Igualdad de Oportunidades: El Condado de Monroe no discrimina por motivos de raza, color, origen nacional, género, religión, edad, discapacidad o servicio militar en el empleo o la prestación de servicios.

Veterans Preference according to Florida State Statute 295.07: Certain service members and veterans, and the spouses and family members of the servicemembers and veterans, receive preference and priority in employment by the state and are encouraged to apply for the positions being filled. Preferencia de Veteranos de acuerdo con el Estatuto del Estado de Florida 295.07: Ciertos miembros del servicio y veteranos, y los cónyuges y familiares de los miembros del servicio y veteranos, reciben preferencia y prioridad en el empleo por parte del estado y se les alienta a solicitar los puestos que se están llenando.