Maintenance Worker, Building Maintenance, Facility Maintenance

Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you enjoy meaningful work and making a difference in your community?

The opportunity to serve the City of Westerville and its citizens as a Maintenance Worker could be for you! The Public Service Department is actively looking for a candidate who strive to provide excellent service and possess a desire to be a part of a team. Read below to learn more about the position and to submit your application.

This is a semi-skilled or skilled maintenance position performing a variety of maintenance, repair, finishing, grounds maintenance, and vehicle operation activities on a shift or project. Work involves performing a variety of city street maintenance and repair work and grounds maintenance and repair work including the operation of loaders, backhoes, mowers, jet vac sewer flushers, power tools, snow blowers, jack hammers, sprayers, and other equipment.

Position may perform some lead work over crew members. This position may cross train in other divisions but is expected to be primarily under the Streets Division.

Please note, that this position is under the United Steelworkers (USW) Union, as such, a successful candidate would start at Step 1 and earn $26.10/hr.

REGULAR HOURS OF WORK:
Monday through Friday 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM.

This position is open until filled. Applications are being reviewed as they are received.

Work is performed under the general direction of a maintenance management staff. Employee must also be able to schedule workers for specific jobs, prioritize maintenance work, and handle equipment breakdowns. Work is reviewed through observation for results obtained and performance evaluations.

(May not include all duties performed.)

• May train, assist, guide, and lead a crew of part time or seasonal maintenance workers, on a shift or maintenance project.
• Tracks and retains maintenance records, worksheets; prepares monthly and daily reports; may train crews on proper use and maintenance of equipment; maintains all equipment; orders equipment parts, as needed.
• Performs rough carpentry work, assists in installing paneling, dry wall, cabinets, flooring, framing, and shelves in city buildings and facilities.
• Cleans and sanitizes bathrooms and shelters; cleans and dusts furniture and bookcases; uses floor buffer to polish floors; makes minor repairs to walls, windows, doors, floors; straightens up work areas; moves furniture, materials and supplies; cleans equipment; cleans and unplugs drains; assists in making plumbing and electrical repairs.
• Prepares and paints walls, floors, ceilings; builds shelves, bulletin boards, display cases, signage and the like; repairs desks, tables, chairs and other furniture.
• Performs road repair work in patching cracks, potholes, and other deterioration in streets; applies cold mix patch asphalt to potholes; levels asphalt; spreads gravel or other construction materials; repairs curbs, sidewalks, and guardrails; excavates deteriorated concrete and asphalt; shovels and salts sidewalks; chips brush; performs a wide variety of similar tasks in maintenance activities.
• Performs a variety of landscaping maintenance work; maintains parks and city grounds by mowing grass, trimming and pruning trees and shrubs, edging, seeding, removing trash, painting, chemical application, performing light construction, and providing other grounds maintenance assistance; digs graves, shovels snow, salts streets; removes debris from roadways and city grounds.
• Performs varied manual and equipment, operation duties in flushing and otherwise cleaning sewers and in repairing manholes and lines; builds, cleans and unclogs catch basins; lays sewer and water lines; rebuilds storm sewers inlets and sanitary sewer manholes; repairs water main line and service…