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Job Description
**Job Summary:**The Maintenance Worker performs duties in various highly skilled trade areas
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Performs interior and exterior center janitorial, building maintenance and ground keeping assignments according to work orders.
- Performs necessary skilled work in one or more areas of plumbing, heating, carpentry and other skill trade areas as needed.
- Performs carpentry work in repairing or replacing doors, windows, walls, flooring, roofing, painting and any other work pertaining to wood structures.
- Performs plumbing, heating, and air-conditioning work in repairing or replacing furnaces, duct work, air conditioners, piping instrument controls, wash basins, toilet facilities and any other work pertaining to heating, air-conditioning, and plumbing facilities.
- Performs electrical work in repairing and replacing fluorescent fixtures, control switches, disconnecting wiring and any other work pertaining to electrical facilities.
- Performs minor construction such as building storage bins, stockroom shelves, counters, work benches, etc.
- Uses precision hand tools and power tools.
- May transport students by bus and automobile.
- May drive trucks and other vehicles including PIV (Powered Industrial Vehicles)
- Directs the work activities of general maintenance personnel.
- Maintains confidentiality but reports significant events or situations immediately through approved channels to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of students and staff, and to ensure that required reporting occurs, and that students receive emergency services as needed.
- Follows all required Safety Protocols, including the proper use of PPE
- Facilitates prompt and appropriate assistance to students in the event of injury, illness, or emotional trauma.
- Attends required staff training sessions.
- Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
**Minimum:**High school graduate or equivalent. Three years experience in the respective fields of electrical, heating, refrigeration, mechanical and carpentry work.
Preferred: Certificate of completion from building trades training program or apprenticeship program. Extensive experience in the building trades.
**Knowledge:**Must possess a valid State drivers license. Ability to obtain a commercial drivers license if required. Ability to operate power and hand tools. Sound working knowledge of electrical, HVAC, building maintenance & construction fields. Ability to read and interpret schematics. Ability to handle multiple tasks.