General Maintenance Technician II - 60008029

State of South Carolina; South Carolina; Vor Ort; USD 35.000 - 45.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health insurance

15 days annual leave

15 days sick leave

13 paid holidays

Paid Parental Leave

Retirement options

Zusammenfassung

State of South Carolina’s SC Department of Veterans’ Affairs seeks a General Maintenance Tech II to join a cemetery operations team. You will assist with grave excavation, site preparation, and equipment operation, ensuring gravesite layouts are followed and safety standards are met.

Responsibilities include headstone handling, grounds and facilities upkeep, and maintaining equipment and fuel logs. Flexibility to work evenings, weekends, and emergencies is required; retirement and benefits are

Qualifikationen

• Knowledge of landscaping and grounds maintenance.
• Ability to follow instructions and communicate clearly.
• Ability to supervise teammates and assign tasks.

Aufgaben

• Operate cemetery equipment including utility vehicles, mowers, tractors, and heavy tools.
• Assist with grave excavation and setting of caskets using appropriate devices.
• Maintain gravesite layouts and verify correct locations per plan.
• Inspect and store headstones and niche covers, ensuring visibility and cleanliness.
• Perform grounds maintenance on turf, trees, shrubs, and beds.
• Keep facilities clean and functional; maintain equipment and logs.
• Follow safety practices for open graves and PPE; participate in safety training.
• Other duties as assigned.

Kenntnisse

Grounds maintenance

Equipment operation

Oral and written communication

Task delegation

Tools

Mini excavators

Industrial trucks

Jobbeschreibung

Are you an experienced professional looking for new opportunities to further your career? The SC Department of Veterans’ Affairs is seeking a hardworking and dependable candidate just like you to apply! This position will offer great benefits with the state, including 15 days of annual and sick leave per year or more depending on applicable state service.

The General Maintenance Tech II serves as a crew member in a variety of cemetery operations and maintenance activities, including the safe operation of equipment utilized in cemetery operations, such as utility vehicles, riding lawn mowers, tractors, compact tractors, spreaders, forklifts, pressure washers, augers, and excavators. Assists with the grave excavation and squaring using pneumatic equipment, picks, and shovels, and assists in the lifting and placement of caskets onto lowering devices during interment operations.

Responsibilities of the General Maintenance Tech II:

• Burial operations are conducted within the standards set forth by the NCA Operational Standards and Measures. As a member of a 2-to-3-person team, will ensure the Grave-site Layout Plan is followed, inspects, verifies gravesite location. Plans and directs team to prepare gravesites for daily interments. Is the primary excavator operator. Verifies and signs Decedent Chain of Custody. Trains new workers in the proper performance of interments.
• Headstones, grave markers, and niche cover operations: Inspecting and storing headstone and niche covers, installing headstone and niche covers, ensuring headstones and niche covers are visible and legible, ensuring headstones and niche covers do not show evidence of debris or objectionable accumulations.
• Grounds Maintenance: Understands and follows Grounds Maintenance Plan and maintain visually prominent areas such as turf, trees, shrubs, and planting beds.
• Facilities Maintenance: Ensuring office, restroom, maintenance pad, break room, and locker room are clean, orderly, and functional.
• Equipment and Tools: Ensuring cemetery equipment and vehicles present a clean and neat appearance, performing equipment preventative maintenance before, during, and after inspections, performing tool maintenance, and maintaining fuel dispensing logs.
• Safety: Safety Hazards, open graves, personal protective equipment, and safety training.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements:

• Knowledge of landscaping and grounds maintenance, and experience in the safe operation and maintenance of lawn and garden equipment.
• Ability to follow instructions and effectively communicate orally and in writing with fellow workers and supervisor(s).
• Ability to assign and monitor task completion of fellow Building/Grounds personnel assigned.

Additional Requirements:

• Knowledge of how to properly carry out grounds-keeping, mechanical maintenance, housekeeping, and custodial duties.
• Knowledge of safety practices relevant to the area of employment.
• Skill in safely operating mechanical equipment (such as mini excavators, dumpers, and industrial trucks) and hand tools related to those used in landscaping, gardening, opening, and closing grave sites, custodial cleaning supplies and equipment.
• Ability to read and understand a measuring tape/ruler.
• Ability to drive a state vehicle and perform routine driver duties.
• Ability to work evenings, weekends, and during emergency situations.
• Ability to stoop, bend, and lift 60 lbs.
• Ability to work in various weather environments associated with the cemetery location.

Additional Comments:

The SC Department of Veterans’ Affairs is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, including, but not limited, to lactation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.

Supplemental questions are considered part of your official application. Any misrepresentation will result in your disqualification from employment. Please complete the state application to include all current and previous work history and education. A resume will not be accepted nor reviewed to determine if an applicant has met the qualifications for the position.

The SC Department of Veterans’ Affairs offers an exceptional benefits package for full time (FTE) employees:

1. Health, dental, vision, long-term disability, and life insurance for employees, spouse, and children. Click here for additional information.
2. 15 days annual (vacation) leave per year
3. 15 days sick leave per year
4. 13 paid holidays
5. Paid Parental Leave
6. S.C. Deferred Compensation Program available (S.C. Deferred Compensation)
7. Retirement benefit choices
   1. State Retirement Plan (SCRS)
   2. State Optional Retirement Program (State ORP)

*Enrollment in one of the listed plans is required for all FTE employees; please refer to the contribution section of hyperlinked retirement sites for the current contribution rate of gross pay.