Maintenance Worker I​/II

Maintenance Worker I/II

The Stanislaus Regional Housing Authority, a nonprofit, public corporation, is committed to addressing the unmet housing needs of residents and communities in our county. The Housing Authority manages approximately 1700 units throughout the County under a variety of affordable housing programs including Public Housing, year around farm labor housing and migrant housing.

The Authority also administers the Housing Choice Voucher program in the following counties:
Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, Tuolumne and Stanislaus. The Authority is governed by a citizen's commission appointed by the County Board of Supervisors.

The Maintenance Worker I/II performs a variety of semi skilled maintenance and repair of Authority managed units and grounds.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following; other duties may be assigned.

Maintenance Worker I:

• Maintains various facilities and housing units by performing minor and routine tasks such as painting, plumbing, electrical wiring, stripping of tile floors, cleaning rugs, cleaning appliances and walls.
• Maintains grounds by performing such tasks as planting, watering, and maintaining landscape areas consisting of lawns, bushes, trees, flowers and shrubs, digging trenches, clearing brush, moving wet concrete and dirt in wheelbarrows, digging postholes, and repairing fence boards. Notifies department management of the need for major repairs or additions to lighting, heating and ventilating equipment.

Maintenance Worker II:

• Repairs or replaces plumbing fixtures, sewer lines and sprinkler systems, electrical and lighting systems, parts on household appliances, and miscellaneous hardware such as door locks, door jambs, window screens, handicap bars, and curtain rods and blinds.
• Prepares and paints the interiors and exteriors of Housing Authority units and buildings.
• Builds, repairs and installs counters, cabinets, benches, partitions, floors, doors, building framework and trim.
• Performs routine maintenance on equipment and hand tools.
• Installs items such as window shades, venetian blinds, curtain rods, wall fans, and door locks for tenants.
• Operates equipment such as dump truck, fork lifts and power tools such as paint sprayers, mowers, edger's and blowers.
• Notifies department management concerning the need for major repairs or additions to lighting, heating and ventilating equipment.
• Complete essential functions for a MWI.
• Applies herbicides, fungicides, and pesticides in accordance to safety procedures and maintains records of fertilizers and chemicals used.
• Participates in the moving of large appliances.
• Attends training programs.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

Possession of a valid California driver's license.

Knowledge of:

• Methods and techniques used in building and ground maintenance activities including skilled carpentry, plumbing, and electrical work.
• Methods and techniques used in estimating time and material for assigned projects. Use of tools, and equipment used in building and ground maintenance
• Safe work practices

Ability to:

• Work in an isolated or out-of-the-way area where there are no other employees to assist with the work and to complete work on a daily basis.
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relations with those contacted in the course of work.
• Understand and follow oral and written direction.
• Clean and care for assigned areas and equipment
• Use and operate a variety of hand, power tools and vehicular and stationary mechanical equipment in accordance with safety procedures.
• Drive light duty vehicles with automatic or manual transmissions. Power walk behind gasoline lawn mower, edger and blower.

Language

Skills:

Maintenance Worker I:

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on- one and small group situations to customers, clients and other employees of the organization.

Maintenance Worker II:

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organizations.

Mathematical

Skills:

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability:

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in…