Senior Building Maintenance Worker

The Senior Building Maintenance Worker serves as a lead-level maintenance professional responsible for planning, assigning, and performing skilled work across multiple building trades. This position conducts maintenance and repairs involving carpentry, electrical, plumbing, painting, mechanical, and welding tasks, while providing daily guidance and support to Building Maintenance Workers. This position also includes conducting facility inspections, coordinating repairs with Facility Management and contractors, and ensuring City facilities are safe, functional, and well maintained to support public operations and scheduled events.

The ideal candidate is an experienced, dependable, and safety-conscious maintenance professional with strong skills across multiple trades, including carpentry, electrical, plumbing, painting, and general mechanical repair. They demonstrate the ability to lead and train maintenance staff, coordinate work assignments, and ensure a high quality of work. The ideal candidate excels at troubleshooting facility maintenance issues, conducting inspections, coordinating with contractors, and maintaining accurate records while providing exceptional customer service.

The Senior Building Maintenance Worker is independently responsible for the completion of assignments in general building maintenance work. This class differs from other trade classes such as Carpenter, Electrician, and Painter, in that they perform journey level work in single trades only. This class differs from Building Maintenance Worker in that the Senior level is responsible for providing lead guidance to several subordinate Building Maintenance Workers in addition to personally performing the work;

or independently oversees, coordinates, and performs general maintenance duties for a large facility or group of facilities.

General supervision is provided by the Structural or Mechanical Maintenance Supervisor. Provides lead guidance to several of subordinate Building Maintenance Workers, limited term, and part time employees.

• Plan, schedule, and assign work to subordinate personnel.
• Perform routine maintenance on City facilities, equipment, and buildings by performing carpentry, electrical, painting, plumbing, mechanical, and welding work.
• Lead and assist Building Maintenance Workers in remodeling, repairing, and constructing such items as partitions, room additions, door hardware, counters, tables, book cases, floors, roofs, and mechanical equipment.
• Install, maintain, and repair carpeting, floor tile, linoleum, wood floors, ceramic tile, and other floor coverings or finishes.
• Operate mechanical saws, buffers, lathes, drills, paint sprayers, drill presses, arc and acetylene welding units, and other shop machinery and tools.
• Fabricate and repair brackets, braces, and fasteners.
• Requisition and purchase materials.
• Keep records on tools, equipment and materials including service, maintenance, and repair work performed.
• Train subordinates.
• Coordinate repairs, maintenance, and improvements to City facilities with Facility Management personnel.
• Coordinate with contractors on various City related projects.
• Review and process repair, maintenance, and improvement requests.
• Inspect facilities for structural problems, vandalism, roof damage, proper elevator operation, pest infestations and proper lighting.
• When assigned to City Hall, set up tables and chairs for special meetings and insure all equipment is on and functioning properly.
• Stock and monitor janitorial and building maintenance supplies.
• Provide exceptional customer service to those contacted in the course of work.
• Other related duties may also performed; not all…