Maintenance Worker

Job Duties

Conducts visual examinations and operational tests to determine the need for, and the performance of, repair work on a level of difficulty and responsibility of trades such as carpentry, painting, plumbing, roofing, etc.

Maintains and repairs facilities including but not limited to: comfort stations, fee booths, fish cleaning stations, information signs, and reservation boards.

Maintains and repairs campsites, parking lots, picnic shelters, shower buildings, administration buildings, and visitor centers.

Responsible for potable water system sampling, testing, and record-keeping as required by regulations for all administrative and recreation sites.

Performs plumbing duties including responding to water system outages and diagnoses water loss problems, repairs leaks, pumps, pipes, and fixtures or related issues, and restores system functionality.

Responsible for water system maintenance including monitoring leak location, testing wells, pumps, leak repair, and adding line replacements. Conducts routine system monitoring, valve exercising, and evaluation.

Performs general carpentry work such as measuring, cutting, constructing, installing, repairing and modifying wood, composite, and wood substitute items where specific fit, and accuracy are within allowable limits to produce a serviceable product.

Applies standard measurements, specifications, and instructions when constructing, installing, or repairing items, such as frame structures, decking, partitions, shelving, doors, forms, siding, and scaffolds.

Responsible for conducting safety inspections of facilities, documenting safety hazards, working condition of facilities, and functionality.

Responsible for maintaining facility maintenance records and inputting maintenance data into a national database.

Develops annual maintenance schedule and maintains records for owned equipment, such as trailers, welders, saws, tractors, and other equipment.

Moves, installs, repairs and replaces campground related fixtures, including wood and concrete tables, stairs, pads, cans, fire rings, etc.

Answers maintenance and repair related questions by visitors or refers them to the appropriate authority. Occasionally works on facility rehabilitation projects.

May have to repair/replace roofs and paint interior and/or exterior of buildings or projects.

Operates both handheld and mobile radios, as well as a variety of hand and power tools such as hammers, sanders, grinders, saws, pliers, wrenches, drills, etc.

May also perform a variety of laborer tasks such as clearing brush, seeding and sodding, clearing timber, policing grounds, waste disposal, mowing, repairing damaged roadways, cleaning ditches, and assisting other trade positions.