Plant Maintenance Engineer

Plant Maintenance Engineer

Position:
Plant Maintenance Engineer (Unlimited, Full‑time) – 6:00AM to 2:30PM (Monday–Friday).

Salary: $34.16 to $39.66 per hour ($71,326 to $82,304 annually), dependent on education and experience.

• Provide building maintenance services, ensuring a clean, safe, and environmentally sound operation of campus buildings.
• Operate and maintain HVAC equipment and other mechanical and electrical systems to improve efficiency and economy.
• Perform minor repairs to plumbing, heating, cooling, electrical, pneumatic and other equipment.
• Maintain environmental climate of all campus buildings, including temperature, ventilation, and humidity.
• Act as part of the Facilities Emergency call list and respond to related emergency situations as needed.
• Work under limited supervision, reporting directly to the Mechanical System Supervisor to fulfill assigned work instructions.

Minimum qualifications
:

• Valid Boiler Engineer’s License or ability to obtain one within 6 months.
• Knowledge of boilers, engines, generators, pumps, compressors, heaters, dampers, motors, and energy‑management systems.
• Reading blueprints, building schematics, pneumatics and DDC controls.
• Basic computer skills (work‑order system, email, software programs).
• Physical ability to move through buildings, operate small tools, and access confined spaces, roofs, and air‑handler areas.

Preferred qualifications
:

• Four (4) years of facilities, physical plant or central plant operation and maintenance experience.
• Maintenance and repair experience with boilers, engines, generators, pumps, compressors, heaters, dampers, motors, and energy‑management systems.
• Plumbing work installation, replacement and repair of water fountains, toilet bowls, wash bowls, faucets, water and sewer lines.
• Maintenance, repair and adjustment of elevators, ventilating and refrigeration equipment, electrical appliances, sterilizers, dryers, steamers and similar equipment; ability to perform electric and acetylene welding.
• Advanced knowledge of discipline codes, standards, commercial availability and cost of materials.
• Intermediate computer software skills (Microsoft applications and facilities maintenance software).
• Experience operating Schneider Niagara N4 energy‑management systems.
• Experience in pneumatics, pneumatic and digital controls.

• Low‑cost medical, dental, vision, short‑ and long‑term disability, and life insurance.
• Generous vacation and sick leave, 11 paid holidays each year.
• Employer‑paid life insurance and pre‑tax flexible spending accounts.
• Retirement plans (Pension, 457(b), 403(b)) and tax‑deferred compensation plans.
• Tuition waivers available for employees and eligible dependents.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing mental health, legal and financial counseling.
• Paid parental leave (six weeks).

Equal Employment Opportunity:
Normandale Community College is committed to honoring human differences and cultivating inclusion of diverse values and ideas in employment and education opportunity. All persons shall be treated with equality and dignity and no discrimination shall occur based on race, sex, color, creed, religion, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, marital status, public assistance status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, or any other protected characteristic.

Reasonable accommodations will be made for applicants with disabilities.