Maintenance Worker - Detention Center

Maintenance Worker

Under the direction of the Detention Maintenance Supervisor, this position performs a variety of tasks across multiple areas to ensure clean, safe, efficient, and structurally sound facilities. These facilities are designed to provide employees, citizens, taxpayers, visitors, and inmates with an optimal environment for productive work, inmate housing, and the conduct of County business. The position requires strong commitment to ethical standards, professionalism, and safety.

Essential duties include performing general maintenance on the Detention Facility's buildings and grounds to ensure a high standard of safety and quality that enhances the work environment for County employees. This includes a variety of technical and skilled maintenance tasks, including carpentry, plumbing, electrical work, painting, HVAC operations, and repair. Additionally, the position involves continuous efforts to improve operations, reduce turnaround times, streamline work processes, and enhance customer service.

Landscape and gardening tasks such as planting, transplanting, and maintaining trees, shrubs, grass, and flowers, as well as using fertilization techniques, are also part of the role. Seasonal duties include snow removal and water line winterization. Routine maintenance checks and equipment adjustments, such as inspecting refrigeration systems and restarting them, are necessary. Preventative maintenance on building systems and equipment, including HVAC systems and domestic hot water pumps, is required.

Maintenance on various building components, such as ceilings, drywall, caulking, and concrete repairs, is also part of the job. Air conditioning systems maintenance, periodic vehicle safety checks, and ensuring all systems are operational are included. General carpentry services, including maintaining windows and door frames, fabricating shelving, assembling and repairing furniture, and replacing locks, are also duties of this position.

Works under the direction of the Detention Maintenance Supervisor. This position does not supervise others.

Minimum qualifications include a high school diploma or GED, a valid driver's license, at least one year of experience in construction, building maintenance, or mechanical equipment, including HVAC, plumbing, and electrical systems. Certification is preferred. Ability to pass pre-employment drug testing, random drug testing, and a background investigation (no felony or moral turpitude charges) is required.

Knowledge of maintenance equipment such as mowers, tractors, trimmers, and landscape and sprinkler system design is necessary. Knowledge of safety precautions associated with equipment operation is required. Skill in using landscaping tools and various hand and power tools for carpentry, painting, plumbing, and basic mechanics is needed. Ability to recognize common weeds and pests, perform skilled building maintenance, and communicate effectively with supervisors, subordinates, and the public is essential.

Physical demands include the ability to operate equipment such as a motor vehicle, computer, telephone, lawn mower, and hand/power tools. Frequently required to sit, speak, hear, and use hands for fine manipulation or to handle objects or controls. Must be able to occasionally exert more than 80 pounds of force and occasionally lift over 50 pounds. Moderate to strenuous physical activity is required, including walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, climbing, and balancing.

Vision requirements include the ability to read documents and use a computer. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work environment includes primarily office-based, with frequent outdoor work under variable weather conditions, including extreme temperatures. Exposure to hazards related to heavy lawn and garden equipment, and the operation of construction equipment (e.g., diesel and gasoline fumes, dust, insects) is present. Noise levels vary from quiet in the office to loud in the field. The work environment includes fluctuating deadlines, customer interaction, and occasional stress.

The employee is on call for emergencies and may work near moving mechanical parts and equipment.

Ability to read, write, and speak English proficiently is required. The skill to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations is necessary. The skill to write reports and business correspondence is needed. The skill to logically and effectively present information both orally and in writing and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, the public officials and the general public is essential.