Skilled Maintainer

Introduction

Are you a hands-on professional who takes pride in keeping grounds safe, functional, and well-maintained? If so, we invite you to take this opportunity to join our team! The State of Connecticut, Department of Children and Families (DCF) – is accepting applications for one (1) full-time Skilled Maintainer position in Middletown, CT.

Join DCF as a Skilled Maintainer and play an essential role in maintaining our buildings and campus grounds. In this diverse and rewarding position, you’ll keep outdoor spaces looking their best through mowing, string trimming, weeding, pruning, and caring for garden beds and plantings, while also performing routine maintenance and repairs on groundskeeping equipment. When you’re not working outdoors, you’ll tackle general building maintenance and assist with larger projects.

If you enjoy variety, working with your hands, and seeing the results of your work make a difference every day, we invite you to bring your skills to DCF and help create safe, welcoming environments for the children, youth, and families we serve.

Location:

Albert J Solnit Center South, 915 River Rd. Middletown, CT

Full-time | 37.5 hours per week

Monday – Friday | 7:00 am – 3:00 pm

View our State Employee Benefits Overview page!

Professional growth and paid professional development opportunities.

A healthy work-life balance to all employees!

The State of Connecticut is an eligible Public Service Loan Forgiveness employer, meaning you may be eligible to have qualifying student loans forgiven after 10 years of service.  for more information.

The Department of Children and Families’ (DCF) vision is that CT’s children are safe and sound and that they live with loving and supportive families.

We partner with communities and families to raise resilient, thriving children.

DCF also protects children. We serve as the State’s lead agency for kids’ mental health. Working with local communities, we set up and put in place prevention plans.

In a state agency this class is accountable for performing one or more tasks of a skilled nature (requiring prior experience or training, below the level of a specialized trades worker which would give the incumbent proficiency in required knowledges, skills and abilities on the first day of the job) in addition to performing lower level duties. Only complex tasks should be learned on the job.

Tasks performed will be in one or several of the following areas:

Building and equipment maintenance (operational and remedial) including the operation of trucks of five (5) ton or greater capacity or complex motorized equipment;

Grounds care as a supervisor and/or specialized landscaping functions;

Assists Qualified Craft Workers or other higher level employees in the trades areas.

See attached addendum.

Considerable knowledge of methods, tools, equipment, materials and procedures of specific trade or work area concerned;

Knowledge of maintenance problems and their proper handling;

Skills manual and machine operations of trade or work area skills; interpersonal skills; oral and written communication skills;

Ability to follow written and oral instructions; utilize computer software.

Two (2) years of experience in one of the following areas:

One of the skilled trades;

Landscape maintenance or vegetable gardening;

Operation of motor trucks or large buses.

The experience area should reflect the needs of the position.

Graduation from a vocational or technical school with a diploma designating completion of subject requirements in a maintenance trade area may be…