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Job Summary

Job Summary: Performs a variety of maintenance work requiring the use of a variety of trade practices associated with such occupations as air conditioning and refrigeration, electrical work, plumbing, carpentry, masonry and painting.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Performs maintenance and repair work involving several trade skills when performing a substantial variety of the following examples of work:

• Installs, maintains and repairs a variety of refrigeration and air conditioning units and systems such as coolers, refrigeration, deep freezers etc.
• Traces and locates defects and makes visual, audible and mechanical checks to determine the extent of repairs needed.
• Replaces a major portion of the various cooling units such as compressors, condensers, expansion valves, thermostats and drive assemblies.
• Tightens loose connections, makes splices, insulates exposed wires in power sources, cleans and lubricates moving parts, replaces items such as belts, fans and fuses.
• Upon completion of repair tests for proper operation.
• Makes electrical repairs on such items as defective wiring, controls, equipment and fixtures having broken or bare wiring, burned out switches and relays, loose connections and fittings, damaged light fixtures and poorly operating thermostats.
• Rearranges and hooks up items such as outlets, switches, light fixtures, regulators, and circuit breakers to installed systems.
• Locates broken, worn, damaged or poorly operating wiring fixtures, controls and equipment through visual check or use of a limited number of test equipment such as lamps and ammeters.
• Removes, replaces, tightens, splices, solders and/or insulates the items being repaired using a variety of hand tools.
• Measures, cuts and bends wires and conduits to specified lengths and angles.
• Removes, cleans, replaces, and seals defective parts of utility supply and disposal systems such as dirty traps, sections of broken tile, pipe and tile, caulks and seals elbows union joints and faucets, cleans and reinstalls joints and fixtures.
• Hooks up water heaters, disposal units, faucets and similar type equipment to installed systems.
• Uses material specified in work orders or obtains replacement parts by comparison with samples.
• Measures, cuts and bends pipe according to measurements specified in orders or sketches or by comparison with samples.
• Uses such tools and equipment as tapes, rules, hacksaws, hand and power pipe threaders and cutters, packing and caulking irons and pipe wrenches.
• Plans and lays out work in accordance with drawings, sketches, blue-prints and own knowledge of construction or needed repairs.
• Selects lumber materials and supplies.
• Measures and cuts materials to the required lengths and dimensions.
• Installs structural and trim items by nailing, bolting, morticing, doweling and gluing.
• Planes, sands and finishes completed work when necessary.
• Installs sheet roll and shingle roofing, ensuring proper alignment and overlap.
• Fabricates and installs frames for windows, doors, transoms and ventilators shelves, counters, plywood, duct work, bulletin boards, cabinets, bookcases and related features having built in characteristics.
• Ensures that installed components are level and accurately aligned with other parts of the structure.
• Installs floor and window sashes.
• Trims, mortices, drills and prepares items for attachment of hardware.
• Applies caulking compound or other filler material around door and window casing and at points where tight seal is required.
• Uses a variety of hand and power shop tools in the accomplishment of assignment.
• Performs maintenance, repair or construction of a variety of structures and surfaces of brick, block stone, and other related materials.
• May remove damaged portions of walls partitions, walkways or other similar structures in preparation of repairs.
• Tears out portions of walls for the installation of doors or windows.
• Spreads mortar, sets brick block and stone and finishes mortar joints so that the repaired portion matches the undamaged portion of the structure.
• Uses a variety of hand tools such as trowels, gauge lines, plumb bobs, air hammers and chisels in the performance of the above…