Installation Maintenance Worker

Position Description

About the Division:

Seattle Parks and Facilities Maintenance Division performs maintenance at over 25 miles of boulevards, 465 parks, including 26 community centers, 8 indoor swimming pools, 2 outdoor (summer) swimming pools, 4 environmental education centers, 2 small-craft centers, 4 golf courses, and an outdoor stadium. We place strong emphasis on providing excellent customer service to the public, clients, and staff to ensure public safety and enjoyment while they are at SPR facilities and parks.

Position

Description:

Seattle Parks and Facilities Maintenance Division are seeking qualified candidates to fill multiple vacancies as an Installation Maintenance Worker. These roles involve a broad range of maintenance responsibilities including:

• Graffiti removal
• Installation and maintenance of park furniture
• Irrigation Systems repairs
• Assisting with the maintenance and repair of surfaces such as walkways, roads, decks, tiles, etc.
• Supporting alterations and repairs to park structures, including buildings, pools, docks, shelters, restrooms, etc.

Installation Maintenance Workers utilize maintenance and equipment manuals, blueprints, established policies and procedures, playground safety regulations and instructions to perform their duties effectively and safely.

Employees in these roles perform a variety of tasks associated with the ongoing preventive maintenance and routine upkeep of our Parks properties. The work requires specialized knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform a variety of semi-skilled non-journey level trades and maintenance work. The IMW as a versatile, jack-of-all trades team member who handle minor repairs and maintenance, allowing journey-level tradespeople to focus on more complex assignments.

An ideal candidate will also demonstrate the ability to identify ways to improve efficiency in routine and on-demand maintenance and contribute to enhanced customer experience.

*** We are currently recruiting for 3 regular, benefited positions on the Day Shift***

• Installation, repair and maintenance of playground equipment, baseball backstops, signs, park furniture including picnic tables, bleachers, barbecues, and trail elements.
• Comfort station maintenance activities such as unclogging toilets, cleaning, and sanitizing, installing, and changing light bulbs in preauthorized fixtures. Replacing TP holders. Removing graffiti from various surfaces.
• Constructs wooden forms for concrete retaining walls, driveways, and concrete pads.
• Assists cement finishers by breaking up concrete with jackhammers, building forms and performing other labor support duties.
• Provides labor assistance to carpenters, plumbers, cement finishers, special support services, and electricians.
• Cleaning or prepping surfaces for external or internal painting, concrete sealant application, or floor coatings, painting small areas and performing small painting projects in comfort stations and picnic shelters, shelving, etc. and touch up painting of garbage cans.
• Ensure job site is clean and safe during and after projects.
• May use hand tools to make minor repairs of short duration to door hardware, doors, jambs, comfort station partitions, and window glass. Safe work zone preparation for skilled trades to perform technical work.
• Work with Asset Management Work Order (AMWO) system.
• Repair/replace irrigation heads, backwash, and clean filtration systems, adjust valves, timers, and chlorination systems in fountains.
• Perform other related duties of a comparable level/type as assigned.
• May assist an electrician to replace heat tape on piping systems, make minor adjustments to certain electronic low voltage timers.
• Purchase materials and maintain equipment and tools.
• Coordinates and directs minor and major office moves and rearrangements.
• Performs other related duties of a comparable level/type as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Two years of in general construction and maintenance work with an emphasis on installation, repair and maintenance in a specific trade. (Combinations of experience, training and education will be evaluated on an individual basis for comparability).

License, Certification, and Other Requirements:

• Current Washington State driver's license or evidence of equivalent mobility.
• Ability to operate a forklift.

Other Qualifications - You will be successful if you have the following experience, skills, and abilities:

Desired

Qualifications:

• Experience installing, maintaining, and repairing infrastructure in a public setting to include equipment such as play area structures, sport courts, signs, benches, picnic tables, barbecues, or other related equipment.
• Be highly motivated and able to work as a team member in a demanding work environment, meeting tight deadlines.
• Experience leading, training, and overseeing the work of subordinates performing a variety of facility maintenance activities and projects.
• Basic computer skills, including the ability to use standard office software and work order/asset…