General Maintenance Tech - Auxiliary
Listed on 2026-08-22
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Trades / Skilled Labor
Building Maintenance, Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, HVAC Tech / Heating Engineer
Unit:
Facilities Operations Admin
Department:Facilities Ops Admin
Duties & Responsibilities:VCU’s Facilities Management Department is seeking to hire a General Maintenance Technician for Facilities Operations.
PrimaryResponsibilities include:
- Utilize knowledge of the trades to perform preventive maintenance, repair, and installation of building infrastructureensuring efficient operation of VCU facilities
- Provide exemplary customer service to all faculty, staff, and students supporting the University’s mission of teaching,high-impact research, and creative expression
- Identify and document system deficiencies using diagnostic tools and advise management of tasks requiring priorityattention.
- Provide quality workmanship and service to maximize systemavailability and minimize unscheduled downtime.
Reactive/Service Work - Respond to emergency and expeditedafter hours work requests such as:
- Electrical requests, including lamps, ballasts, switches, andreceptacles
- Plumbing requests, including flush valves, water closets,sinks, showers, and water leaks
- Appliance requests, including washers, dryers, dishwashers, and refrigerators
- HVAC requests, including hot/cold calls and mechanical failuresreported through the BAS
- Fire system alarms and troubles
- Carpentry requests, including doors and locks/keys issues
- Perform and complete regularly scheduled preventive maintenance to various building infrastructure, such as fan coil units, roomair conditioners, exhaust fans, split systems, rooftop units, andheat pumps
- Works in a collaborative and collegial manner throughout the department, division, and University
- Interact with others to collectively resolve problems,accomplish mutual goals, and foster an atmosphere of trust
- Share information and ideas to improve customer service and promote Facilities Management's goals
- Listens to and anticipates customer needs; provides clearexplanations; responds quickly; takes initiative to assist internal and external customers
- Communicates respectfully to internal and external customers
- Other duties as assigned
- Work/on-call during inclement weather and emergencies
- Utilize computer skills to access email and research parts/information as required
- Demonstrate working knowledge of AiM and AiM Go ensuring promptcompletion of work requests and time card entry following allestablished workflow processes, including notes logs for all workrequests over 30 days
- Clean and organize materials in the Shop and mechanicalareas
- Participates in periodic cleaning of shop
Minimum Qualifications
- Several years of experience performing commercial building maintenance
- Ability to repair and service a wide variety of buildinginfrastructure components, including HVAC, plumbing, and electrical systems
- Ability communicate orally and in writing to supervision, other employees, and customers
- Ability to read/interpret drawings, plans, specifications, andscopes
- Ability to use a wide variety of hand tools and power equipment
- High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent
- Valid Driver's License is required
- Demonstrated ability to work in and foster an environment ofrespect, professionalism and civility with a population of faculty,staff, and students from all backgrounds and experiences, or acommitment to do so as a staff member at VCU.
$50,000 - $60,000 ($24.03/hr - $28.84/hr) + upto $2,500 Sign-on Bonus
Benefits:
All full-time university staff are eligible forVCU’s robust benefits package that includes comprehensive health benefits, paid annualand holiday leave, generous tuition benefits, retirement planning and savings options, tax-deferred annuity and cash match programs,employee discounts, well-being resources, abundant opportunities for career development and advancement, and more.
Non-Exempt
Work Hours:Rotating including weekends and holidays,12:00pm-12:30am and 4:00pm-12:30am
Hours per Week:40
Restricted Position:No
ORP Eligible:No
Flexible Work Arrangement:Fully Onsite
UniversityJob Title:
Trades Specialist FM 1-3 (17122N
-17123N)
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