Laborer

Commander, Navy Installations Command; Newport (RI); On-site; USD 23,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Commander, Navy Installations Command in Newport, Rhode Island, seeks a facilities maintenance worker to keep fitness and aquatic spaces clean and safe. The role supports the Fitness Director on site at Naval Station Newport and involves indoor and outdoor duties across multiple facilities.

The position requires performing maintenance and cleaning tasks, operating power tools, and ensuring equipment is serviced and stocked as needed. The schedule is 35–40 hours per week with full benefits.

Qualifications

• This position does not have a positive education requirement.
• This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.

Responsibilities

• Assists Fitness Director on site to keep facilities and grounds clean and in good condition.
• Operates power tools and equipment for maintenance of outdoor facilities (e.g., chainsaws, hedge trimmers, tillers, etc.).
• Ensures equipment is serviced, adjusted, or minor repairs performed as needed.
• Performs cleaning tasks in lobbies, exercise rooms, restrooms, and other patron areas, maintaining sanitation and supplies.
• Performs general maintenance such as painting, changing light bulbs, washing towels, and stocking supplies.

Job description

• Hiring Agency: Commander, Navy Installations Command
• Department: Department of the Navy
• Location: Newport, Rhode Island
• Schedule: 35 - 40 hours per week w/full benefits

This position is located in the Mid-Atlantic Region, Fleet and Family Readiness Program, Fleet Readiness Department in the Fitness/Sports and Deployed Support Department, at Naval Station Newport, Newport RI. The purpose of this position is to maintain and operate clean indoor and outdoor fitness/aquatic facilities/spaces.

Key Responsibilities

The incumbent of this position performs a variety of tasks both indoors and outdoors to assist the Fitness Director on site serviced to keep facilities and grounds surrounding the fitness facilities and sport fields in a continuing state of cleanliness. May operate a variety of power operated tools and equipment to maintain outdoor facilities i.e. chain saws, hedge trimmers, tillers, hoes, chippers, snow blowers, tractors, trucks, pressure washers, etc.

Ensures equipment is serviced prior to use and makes adjustments or minor repairs or replacing worn or damages parts as necessary. May provide all or some of the following duties; loading, unloading, transporting, storing supplies and stocking shelves.

May perform, sweeping, mopping, dusting customer service areas, lobbies, exercise room, bathrooms, showers, locker rooms by sanitizing, disinfecting and deodorizing lavatories, urinals and toilet bowls, and ensuring soap dispensers or paper towel holders are filled and ready for patron usage. May provide general maintenance such as touch up painting, replacing light bulbs, washing/drying and replenishing towels, stocking soap/paper towels and toilet paper as necessary.

May perform general tasks for outside areas, fields and surrounding grounds .such as cutting grass, edging/weeding, raking, shoveling snow as necessary and removing trash from receptacles as needed. May line fields, sets bases, secure windscreens, installs goals/goal posts, move bleachers, and make repairs as necessary or directed. May vacuum carpeted areas, buffs floors and other floor surfaces using automatic waxing or buffing machines.

May wash walls, windows, blinds and other surfaces as necessary using ladders or scaffolding to reach high areas. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements & Education

This position does not have a positive education requirement

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Commander, Navy Installations Command, Department of the Navy.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $20.3 – $20.3/hr.

What security clearance is required?

This position requires a Other security clearance.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-11-10.

What is the work schedule?

This is a 35 - 40 hours per week w/full benefits position.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.