General Maintenance Worker, USC Housing

USC Rossier Global Executive Ed.D.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading university in Los Angeles is seeking a General Maintenance Worker to ensure high standards of facility maintenance. The role involves customer service, preventive maintenance, and repairs across various systems, contributing to a welcoming environment for students and staff.

Benefits

Work-life balance programs

Employee well-being support

Wide variety of benefits

Qualifications

• Minimum 6-12 months experience required.
• Valid CA driver's license required.
• Knowledge of thermodynamic laws and plumbing.

Responsibilities

• Provides customer service to students and staff.
• Performs preventive maintenance on appliances.
• Repairs plumbing fixtures and performs minor repairs.

Skills

Customer Service

Preventive Maintenance

Troubleshooting

Repair

Welding

Education

Specialized or technical training

Tools

Hand Tools

Power Tools

Test Instruments

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USC Auxiliary Services, one of the largest divisions at The University of Southern California, is focused on making a difference for over 65,000 students, athletes, faculty, staff, and guests who visit our campuses each day. Through our innovative services, our six central business units (USC Bookstores, USC Hospitality, USC Housing, USC Transportation, the USC Hotel and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum) collectively create the best USC experience for future leaders, scientists, filmmakers, engineers, and doctors alike. Auxiliary Services works tirelessly to welcome all visitors into the Trojan family. We are driven to succeed by our commitment to uphold our unifying values.

USC Housing, a division of USC Auxiliary Services, hosts more than 9,000 students, athletes, faculty, and staff throughout the year in over 50 properties on and off campus. Housing meets the challenge of inviting students into our Trojan family by making them feel comfortable, safe and welcome. We boast top-notch amenities including comprehensive recycling programs, simplified online repair requests, and more. Serving our students’ wellbeing is the reason that we are here and we share the same vision and excellence that they do.

We are seeking to build a pool of candidates for future General Maintenance Worker positions to join our rapidly growing team.

The Opportunity

With all of the space needed to house over 9,000 Trojans, we need a General Maintenance Worker to monitor our facilities and ensure that we maintain our high standards of excellence. As an expert in all forms of repairs, you will examine and repair our facilities, as needed. You will use your expertise to communicate with management and outside vendors, as well to train other workers. Most of all, your focus on customer service will demonstrate to our students, faculty, and staff that we put their needs first!

The Accountabilities

1. Provides customer service to students, faculty, staff and external customers. Meets customer needs, offers options, resolves problems and follows up with customers. Ensures full customer satisfaction without unnecessarily referring customer to other staff members. Maintains friendly, helpful demeanor.
2. Provides on-going preventive maintenance for appliances including air conditioners, heaters, refrigerators, stoves, ovens and dishwashers.
3. Troubleshoots and repairs or replaces appliance parts and performs repairs on commercial kitchen equipment, e.g., walk-in coolers, freezers, ice machines, dishwashers, electric ranges, etc., as needed.
4. Maintains appliance part inventory.
5. Builds interior walls, fabricates cabinets, drawers and screens, assembles furniture. Repairs or replaces closet doors, drawers, non-fire rated doors, door locks, hinges, tiles, bathroom fixtures, etc. Performs preventive maintenance.
6. Installs safety restraints on cabinets and furniture. Patches and stretches carpet, replaces broken windows and ceiling tiles, performs caulking.
7. Repairs or replaces light bulbs, ballasts, switches, plugs, light fixtures, etc. Maintains room wiring systems and emergency exit signs, adjusts timers, tests and replaces smoke detectors and emergency lights. Secures electrical wires. Repairs vacuum cleaners as needed.
8. Prepares walls for painting, patches holes, replaces drywall, paints. Stains and refinishes wood work, such as wall paneling and furniture, etc. Assists in roof repairs, repairs or replaces tiles, performs caulking.
9. Repairs or replaces various plumbing fixtures and hardware, e.g., faucets, shower fixtures, water fountains, garbage disposals, sinks and toilets.
10. Unclogs sluggish or stopped drains, including main drains. Performs minor repairs on water heaters.
11. Performs light welding, light vehicle maintenance. Performs utility work, e.g., installing or removing posts and signs, patching street holes with asphalt, repairing gates, etc.
12. Promotes an environment that fosters inclusive relationships and creates unbiased opportunities for contributions through ideas, words, and actions that uphold principles of the USC Code of Ethics.
13. Performs other related duties as assigned or requested. The University reserves the right to add or change duties at any time.

The Qualifiers

• Minimum Education: Specialized or technical training. Combined experience/education as substitute for minimum education.
• Minimum Experience: 6 - 12 months.
• Minimum Field of Expertise:
• Knowledge of thermodynamic laws, refrigerator cycles, electricity principles, test/detection instruments, hand/power tools, wood finishing, AC/DC currents, wiring, painting, construction and plumbing.
• Valid CA driver's license required. Position will participate in the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Pull Notice System. A copy of DMV record will be required as a final condition of employment. For more information please visit the policy website.
• In addition, the successful candidate must also demonstrate, through ideas, words and actions, a strong commitment to USC's Unifying Values.

What We Prefer

• Preferred Experience: 1 year.
• Preferred Field of Expertise: Knowledge of all applicable safety procedures and precautions. Clean DMV record.

The Trojan Family Rewards

We pride ourselves in creating the BEST USC EXPERIENCE, and that begins with our employees! We offer a wide variety of benefits and programs that support our staff and their families. For more information please visit https://employees.usc.edu/benefits-perks

This support advocates work-life balance and employee well-being. As members of the Trojan family, employees are connected by the traditions and history that make us proud to be Trojans!

The work culture thrives on mutual respect, trust, and synergy amongst all of its members.

USC has great minds that transform the world with their talents and research. Will you be one? Join us!

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The hourly rate for this position is $25.50. When determining an offer, the University of Southern California considers factors such as the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate’s experience, education, training, key skills, internal peer alignment, applicable laws, contractual requirements, grant funding, and market conditions.