Maintenance Worker 4 - Facilities Maintenance

Join a workforce where innovation and teamwork provide support to the community and citizens of Monroe County.

Compensation:

Job Description:

The primary function of this position is to perform all related repairs and/or maintenance to county facilities and grounds. 

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Analyzes work order requests and develops a cost-effective and efficient plan in order to complete the job.

• Applies journeyman-level skills in at least one trade (plumbing, electrical, carpentry, HVAC, painting, roofing), for example:

• Repairs and replaces irrigation plumbing, fixtures, and piping.

• Installs new or troubleshoots electrical services, rewiring, new wiring, panels, and disconnects.

• Performs carpentry-related tasks and masonry on buildings.

• Repairs and replaces roofing.

• Paints County facilities, including prepping areas to be painted and primed.

• Provides a list of materials with prices in order to obtain purchase orders and complete paperwork.

• Purchases materials with purchase orders and transports to job site location.

• Checks and maintains tools and equipment periodically in order to ensure proper operation and safety.

• Maintains and monitors fire alarm mechanics.

• Coordinates and/or assists with repairs and installations of Monroe County emergency generators.

• Oversees contractual work.

• Assists with setting up use of buildings and grounds for special events.

• Completes appropriate paperwork in the performance of daily duties.

• Keeps work area clean and organized and uses safety cones and signage when required.

• Attends required training and safety meetings and uses appropriate safety equipment.

• 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. Five (5) years minimum of prior related work experience.

Special Qualifications:

Valid Florida Driver’s License.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to work from a general outline of duties and responsibilities.

• Ability to perform technical or trades-based work that requires a solid understanding of basic algebra and statistics OR use of heavy equipment. Some of the tasks performed include participating in data collection and detailed analysis; reporting on the accomplishment of specific departmental goals and tasks; OR operating or repairing heavy equipment (bulldozers, cranes, graders).

• Ability to make decisions that govern activities as well as others.

• Ability to work with less than ten co-workers who are mostly engaged in the same activities.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work is heavy and requires exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly 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 the skin, particularly that of the 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 the legs at the knees to come to a rest on the 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 deals with crisis situations that require an employee to make major decisions involving people, resources, and property.

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.