Handyperson, Light Maintenance – Trade Services

KBS - Kellermeyer Bergensons Services, LLC; Mount Vernon (IL); On-site; USD 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401k Plan

Life Insurance

Dental & Vision

Quick Pay

Pet Insurance

Discount Program

Job summary

Kellermeyer Bergensons Services (KBS) is hiring a Handyperson for a full-time, on-site role in Mount Vernon, IL. You will perform general maintenance, safety tasks, and site support to ensure clean, safe facilities across our client sites.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in building maintenance, strong communication, and the ability to read safety guidelines. The position offers benefits and opportunities to grow with a leading facility services provider.

Qualifications

• 3+ years' experience in building maintenance.
• Ability to communicate effectively with customers and management.
• Ability to read and interpret safety rules and operating procedures.
• Strong multitasking and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain professional customer service and communications.
• Ensure SIDA badge compliance and escort for subcontractors in restricted areas where applicable.
• Support regular customer audits and walkthroughs to address findings.
• Process work orders: acknowledge, execute, update, and close out with notes and photos.
• Perform preventive maintenance inspections and general repairs (doors, fixtures, lighting, basic plumbing).
• Operate maintenance equipment safely and assist with moves and installations.
• Maintain building safety and security while escorting third-party vendors.

Skills

Building maintenance

Communication

Safety rules

Critical thinking

Job description

Join a fast-paced, growing, and exciting company full of great opportunities!

Kellermeyer Bergensons Services (KBS) has immediate full-time, permanent openings for a Handyperson. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and helping make an impact on safety in the workplace, then this is the job for you!

About KBS

Kellermeyer Bergensons Services (KBS) is the largest privately held provider of facility services in North America, servicing over 2 billion square feet of space daily. We help industry leaders across a wide range of key verticals—including retail, industrial and logistics, healthcare, education, manufacturing, and more—maintain clean, efficient, and welcoming spaces that support their operations. As we continue to grow, we’re looking for team members who are dedicated, reliable, and ready to contribute to a culture built on respect, opportunity, and pride in service.

Key Responsibilities

Customer, Safety, and Access

• Maintain professional, prompt customer service and communications.
• Maintain SIDA badge compliance and serve as site signatory/escort for subcontractors in restricted airport areas, where applicable to the site.
• Support regular customer building audits/walkthroughs to achieve a “pass,” addressing findings promptly.

Work Orders

• Receive/acknowledge, execute, update, and close out work orders when directed or authorized by KBS Dispatch/Operations; otherwise provide timely updates, photos, and completion notes.
• Upload required documentation (status notes, photos, proposals, completion details) per customer requirements.
• Immediately elevate scope changes, emergent hazards, or specialty trade needs to KBS Dispatch/Operations.

Preventive & Routine Maintenance

• Perform preventive maintenance inspections per customer scope and within state guidelines.
• Conduct general facility maintenance and minor repairs: doors, hardware, fixtures, walls, flooring, restrooms, lighting, and basic plumbing.
• Perform, lubricating components, aligning belts, minor patching/tear mitigation when within skill and safety limits.
• Perform HVAC filter changes, minor condensate/drain maintenance, and routine housekeeping (within licensing limits).
• Perform lighting maintenance (e.g., lamp/ballast/driver replacements where permitted), minor electrical support, and basic troubleshooting.
• Perform overhead door preventive maintenance and basic maintenance.
• Complete general preventive maintenance on in-building assets and infrastructure.

Repairs, Moves, And Site Support

• Repair/adjust doors and closers; change locks/cores; reset door codes as directed by site management/KBS.
• Perform minor painting and patching; repair/replace general hardware.
• Dismantle/move/install furnishings and racking components as directed.
• Operate scissor lift and common maintenance equipment safely (certification preferred).
• Maintain building safety/security while working and when escorting third-party vendors.

Requirements For Our Handyperson

• Ability to communicate effectively to customers and management.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Critical thinking with ability to multitask and balance strategy and execution.
• 3 or more years' experience in building maintenance.

What’s In It for You?

As a full-time KBS employee (30+ hours per week) you qualify for benefits including medical, prescription drugs, dental, vision and more!

• Affordable Limited Medical Insurance (Coterie) which includes virtual access to US board-certified physicians who can consult, diagnose, and prescribe medications via interactive audio or video.
• Life Insurance
• Supplemental Health Insurance (E.G., Accident)
• 401k plan with a match
• Quick Pay - voluntary benefit offered to both full-time and part-time KBS employees who are paid hourly via direct deposit. Quick Pay provides a way for employees to access a portion of their pay prior to the upcoming scheduled pay day.
• Pet Insurance
• PerkSpot Discount Program - discounts on travel, gyms, cell phones, restaurants, auto, apparel & electronics

KBS considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, and expression, marital or military status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. KBS also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law.

We participate in the E-Verify program administered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security