BUILDING MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN - City of Jonesboro

To:  All Qualified Applicants

From:  City of Jonesboro Human Resources

Re: Maintenance Technician Posting

The City of Jonesboro seeks a full-time Maintenance Technician.  See job description below for more details and qualifications.

Maintenance Technician

Job Description

Safety Sensitive:                Yes

Exempt:                            No

Department:                     Building Maintenance

Reports To                         Facilities Maintenance Director

Location:                           Maintenance Facility Jonesboro AR

Date Prepared:                  November 12, 2008

Date Revised:                    October 20, 2017

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION

This safety sensitive position (SS) purpose is to maintain city buildings, equipment, facilities, grounds, and fixtures in a functional, safe, and attractive condition.  Successful performance helps ensure a safe, comfortable environment for city employees and the general public. HVAC and construction labor experience is preferred.

 ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Directs the activities of Public Service Workers. This duty is performed daily.

2. Operates construction and lifting equipment. This duty is performed monthly.

3. Maintains and repairs buildings, equipment, facilities, grounds, and fixtures for the city. This duty is performed daily.

4. Processes order requests:  performs or oversees completion of work, including replacing light bulbs and ballasts, repairing or replacing toilets and fixtures, replacing door locks, and cleaning or replacing air conditioning filters. This duty is performed weekly.

5. Paints interiors and exteriors of buildings. This duty is performed weekly.

6. Performs heating, ventilation, and air conditioning maintenance and repairs. This duty is performed weekly.

7. Performs rough and finished carpentry, including remodeling projects. This duty is performed weekly.

8. Installs or replaces plumbing fixtures. This duty is performed weekly.

9. Designs and builds concrete forms; pours and finishes concrete. This duty is performed as needed.

10. Performs a variety of maintenance and repair work as needed. This duty is performed daily.

11. Perform scheduled maintenance on boiler, generator, and pumps. This duty is performed monthly.

12. Moves Office Furniture as necessary. This duty is performed weekly.

13. Fills out Purchase Requisitions. This duty is performed weekly.

14. Purchase materials and supplies as needed. This duty is performed weekly.

15. Operating a city vehicle is required for the essential functions.

16. Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Knowledge of a specialized field (however acquired), such as basic accounting, computer, etc. Equivalent of four years in high school, plus night, trade extension, or correspondence school specialized training, equal to two years of college, plus 2 years related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Ability to effectively communicate information and respond to questions in person-to-person and small group situations with customers, clients, general public and other employees of the organization.

 MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

 CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

Ability to use common sense understanding in order to carry out detailed written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few known variables in situations of a routine nature.

REQUIRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Valid Driver License

 PREFERRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

CDL and HVAC License

 INITIATIVE AND INGENUITY

SUPERVISION RECEIVED

Under direction where a definite objective is set up and the employee plans and arranges own work, referring only unusual cases to supervisor.

PLANNING

Considerable responsibility with regard to general assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work; may also occasionally assist in the planning of work assignments performed by others within a limited area of operation.

 DECISION MAKING

Performs work operations which permit frequent opportunity for decision-making of minor importance and which would not only affect the operating efficiency of the individual involved, but would also affect the work operations of other employees and/or clientele to a slight degree.

 MENTAL DEMAND

Moderate mental demand. Operations requiring almost continuous attention, but work is sufficiently repetitive that a habit cycle is formed; operations requiring intermittent directed thinking to determine or select materials, equipment or operations where variable sequences may be selected by the employee.

ANALYTICAL ABILITY / PROBLEM SOLVING

Moderately repetitive.  Activities with slight variation using a definite set of processes or directions with some degree of supervision.  Choice of learned things in situations which conform to clearly established patterns and modes.

 RESPONSIBILITY FOR WORK OF OTHERS

Responsibility for work of others: Not indicated.

 RESPONSIBILITY FOR FUNDS, PROPERTY and EQUIPMENT

No responsibility for this factor.

ACCURACY

Probable errors of internal scope should ordinarily be detected within the department or office in which they occur, but may affect the work of others within the unit, requiring additional expenditure of time to trace errors and make all necessary corrections. Errors would require a moderate amount of time to correct.

 ACCOUNTABILITY

 FREEDOM TO ACT

Generally controlled. General processes covered by established policies and standards with supervisory oversight.

ANNUAL MONETARY IMPACT

The amount of annual dollars generated based on the job's essential duties / responsibilities. Examples would include direct dollar generation, departmental budget, proper handling of organization funds, expense control, and savings from new techniques or reduction in manpower.

None. Job does not create any dollar monetary impact for the organization.

IMPACT ON END RESULTS

Modest impact. Job has some impact on the organizations end results, but still from an indirect level. Provides assistance and support services that facilitates decision making by others.

PUBLIC CONTACT

Occasional contacts with patrons on routine matters.

 EMPLOYEE CONTACT

Contacts of considerable importance within the department or office, such as those required in coordination of effort, or frequent contacts with other departments or offices, generally in normal course of performing duties. Requires tact in discussing problems and presenting data and making recommendations, but responsibility for action and decision reverts to others.

USE OF MACHINES, EQUIPMENT AND/OR COMPUTERS

Occasional use of complex machines and equipment (desktop/laptop computer and software, road and production machines and equipment, etc.)

 WORKING CONDITIONS

Outside working environment, wherein there are disagreeable working conditions part of the time.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

The following work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to outdoor weather conditions; frequently exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, work in high, precarious places; and occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, wet or humid conditions, extreme heat, risk of electrical shock, vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

 PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

The following physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations.

Moderate diversity, moderately physical. Work activities which allow for a moderate amount of diversity in the performance of tasks which requires somewhat diversified physical demands of the employee.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, talk or hear, taste or smell; and frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; occasionally required to sit. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds; regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; distance vision; color vision; peripheral vision; depth perception; and ability to adjust focus.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Not indicated.