General Maintenance Technician II - 60008029

State-of-South-Carolina; South Carolina; On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision insurance

15 days annual leave

15 days sick leave

13 paid holidays

Parental Leave

Retirement benefit options

Job summary

SC Department of Veterans’ Affairs is seeking a General Maintenance Tech II to support cemetery operations, including grave-site preparation, interments, and equipment maintenance. You will train new workers, manage headstones and grounds, and ensure safety and quality in daily tasks.

Qualifications include knowledge of landscaping, safe equipment operation, and strong communication. This is a full-time, on-site role requiring flexibility for evenings, weekends, and emergencies.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of landscaping and grounds maintenance.
• Ability to operate and maintain lawn and garden equipment safely.
• Ability to follow instructions and communicate effectively, orally and in writing.
• Ability to assign and monitor tasks of team members.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate burial operations with a 2–3 person team and follow Grave-site Layout Plan.
• Inspect and install headstones and niche covers, ensuring visibility and legibility.
• Maintain grounds, turf, trees, shrubs, and planting beds according to plan.
• Keep offices and facilities clean and functional.
• Perform preventative maintenance on cemetery equipment and vehicles.
• Address safety hazards and train new workers in interments.

Skills

Grounds maintenance

Equipment operation

Safety practices

Oral and written communication

Team leadership

Tools

Mini excavators

Dumpers

Industrial trucks

Job description

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.