Maintenance Generalist, Lead (PCN 20-8005)

State of Alaska; Seward (AK); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Basic Life Insurance

Retirement options

Vacation leave 15 hrs/mo

11 paid holidays

Health benefits

Job summary

The Department of Corrections, Division of Institutions, is recruiting for a Maintenance Generalist, Lead at Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward, Alaska. The role supervises a team performing carpentry, flooring, drywall, painting, and equipment maintenance to ensure secure operations.

The position requires hands-on leadership, adherence to safety and security rules, and the ability to coordinate tasks, train staff, and manage tools and supplies. Employment is with the State of Alaska.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of basic mathematics and the safe and proper use of tools common to equipment and building maintenance.
• Ability to locate and use shop and manufacturer’s reference books and manuals; perform limited construction and maintenance repairs using appropriate tools.
• Lead workers are required to assign, monitor, train, and evaluate daily tasks; coordinate tasks of others and ensure adherence to schedules and safety rules.

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise a maintenance team performing rough and finish carpentry, flooring, drywall, painting, and related repairs.
• Coordinate daily tasks, train staff, and ensure quality and safety standards are met.
• Maintain inventory of tools and supplies and respond to emergency situations per procedures.

Skills

Mechanical

Computer skills

Job description

The Department of Corrections, Division of Institutions, is recruiting for a Maintenance Generalist, Lead for the Spring Creek Correctional Center (SCCC), located in Seward, Alaska.

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What You Will Be Doing:

Maintenance Generalist Lead position reports to the Maintenance Foreman and is primarily responsible for, but not limited to, performing general rough and finish carpentry work. Installing and repairs carpet, flooring, tile and drywall. Prepare surfaces for painting and paint surfaces. Repairs and maintains structures and equipment deal with locks and keys for the facility. Operates heavy equipment.

Our Mission, Values, and Culture:

The mission of Spring Creek Correctional Center is to provide a secure environment for staff and offenders that promotes public safety and provides an opportunity for staff development, and reformative offender programming to ensure safety and efficient resources management. As the State of Alaska's only Maximum-Security adult male facility we provide confinement for minimum, medium, and close custody sentenced felons including the state's most violent and predatory offenders.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

• Employer paid Basic Life insurance with additional coverage available.
• Retirement programs with a wide variety of investment options.
• Vacation leave of 15 hours per month with an accrual rate increased based on time served.
• Eleven paid holidays’
• Health benefit package, which includes employer contribution toward medical, vision and dental.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

Spring Creek Correctional Center is a maximum-security state operated adult correctional institution that has a capacity of over 500 male inmates and employs approximately 200 staff. While much of Spring Creek's inmate population serve long term sentences, we also house prisoners serving shorter sentences.

Who We Are Looking For:

We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:

• Mechanical: Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, benefits, repair, and maintenance
• Computer Skills: Uses computers, software applications, databases, and automated systems to accomplish work.

For job seekers unfamiliar with the Seward area, the following are a few highlights about some of the features of our area:

• The community of Seward is nestled against a backdrop of peaks and passes sculpted by Ice Age glaciers; Seward’s ice-free harbor has long served as a natural gateway to the vast scenic and resource riches of Alaska's huge interior.
• Residents enjoy outstanding outdoor recreation including the Kenai Fjords National Park, which is dominated by glaciated landscapes. Exit Glacier is one of the many glaciers in the park and is only a short drive from downtown Seward.
• Seward is located on Resurrection Bay, a fickle body of water teeming with an abundant species of fish and frolicking marine mammals.
• Seward is home to the Mt. Marathon Race which is run every July 4th. The race totals 3.1miles and climbs 3022 feet. Top finishers cross the finish line in about an hour.
• Seward schools are second to none, with the Seward Elementary School being selected as a 2008 “No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School.”
• The region offers fantastic marine boating, fishing and hunting, cross-country skiing, bird watching, hiking, kayaking, running and biking, and much, much more.

Please see the Chamber of Commerce's website at: http://seward.com/ for more information and visit the following sites: http://www.cityofseward.us/ and/or http://sewardcitynews.com and/or www.alaskasealife.org/

Any combination of education and/or experience providing the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the work and lead a group of other workers in the occupational field.

Essential Core Competencies:

Knowledge of basic mathematics and the safe and proper use and care of tools common to equipment and building maintenance. Ability to locate and use shop and manufacturer’s reference books and manuals; perform limited construction and maintenance repairs using appropriate tools; perform minor maintenance and repair on hand and power tools and equipment used in the work; perform physically demanding work; read and write; follow and apply written and oral directions and safety sheets; complete written reports, e.g., time sheets, incident reports, material requests; learn and safely handle construction,maintenance wastes and hazardous materials; and respond to emergency situations following established procedures.

Position-Specific Competencies:

Lead workers are required to assign, monitor, train, and evaluate daily tasks; make decisions and set and balance priorities; coordinate tasks of others and work efficiently; ensure adherence to work schedules, quality standards, safety and security rules; give clear instructions; recommend appropriate solutions to difficult situations; and motivate others.

Additionally:

Ability to maintain inventory of tools, equipment, and supplies; and recommend alternative solutions to problems encountered in the work.

Applicable skill in organizing assignments in logical order

Other Information

Special Note:

Vacancies in this job class are filled through Union referral prior to posting on Workplace Alaska, except for promotions, demotions, transfers, and emergency appointments.

Some positions may require any combination of Driver's License; Commercial Driver’s License, with Specified Endorsements; Current CPR Certificate; Current First Aid Certificate; Fire Alarm System Certificate; 40 Hours of Hazardous Work Operator Training; and/or Mandt Training.

Incumbents of positions that require a Commercial Driver’s License are subject to drug and alcohol testing in accordance with federal regulations.

Some positions may require a criminal background check and/or Possession of a security clearance by State or federal agencies.

Some positions may require recognition equivalent to, or certification of fitness as a Boiler Operator, Carpenter, and/or Painter.

Added Value Competencies and Certification are categorized as follows:

BASIC typically includes Cement; Hardware; Rough Carpentry; Water Base Paint; Asbestos Worker Certificate; Interagency Qualification System red card; Incident Command system (ICS) red card.

MODERATE typically includes Masonry with tile, ceramics and stone; Finishes; Universal Refrigeration Certificate; Finish carpenter; Boiler (Hot Water); Appliance repair; Oil Base Paint with respirator.

HIGH typically includes Boiler (Steam); Digital controls; Electrical; Plumbing; Mechanical; Electronics and controls.

HIGHEST typically includes Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning Certificate (HVAC).

“Essential Core Competencies” are a common or typical set of knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that reflect successful performance of all levels of the career area. These are included in the position description and performance evaluation review process.

“Position-Specific Competencies” are a common or typical set of knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that reflect successful performance of the skill level and primary duties of the specific job.

“Training” and “education” in this guidance are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, on-the-job, and military training), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree, apprenticeships, and trade or vocational schools) and short-duration (such as a seminar, professional development, and mircocredentials, i.e., computer science, human resources, project management) programs.

“Progressively responsible” means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS

• Previous Evaluations

EDUCATION

If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials if used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position. Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview.

LEGAL EMPLOYMENT

The State’s online recruitment system, Workplace Alaska, requires applicants to certify that they have a legal right to accept employment in the United States. It is the responsibility of the employee to maintain the appropriate documentation to accept or continue legal employment. The State of Alaska does not function in the role as an employer sponsor.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the minimum qualifications listed above. If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs; or an accredited U.S. post-secondary institution reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the post-secondary institution. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.

WORK EXPERIENCE

If using work experience not already documented in your application, also provide the employer name, your job title, dates of employment, and whether full-or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and minimum qualifications are clearly met. If they are not, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment.

PREA NOTIFICATION

• Sexual abuse in a prison, jail, lockup, community confinement facility, juvenile facility, or other institution;
• Convicted of engaging or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community facilitated by force, overt or implied threats of force, or coercion, or if the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse;
• Has been civilly or administratively adjudicated to have engaged in the activity described above.

CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECKS/APSIN/ACOMS

Please be aware – this position requires the use of the Alaska Public Safety Information Network (APSIN)/Alaska Corrections Offender Management System (ACOMS). A security clearance issued by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) is necessary to use APSIN/ACOMS. DPS will deny security clearance for any applicant who has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor in this state or another jurisdiction, or who may be a fugitive from justice. Additionally, security clearance will be withdrawn if DPS discovers that material information was falsified or omitted at the time of the initial application for security clearance.

FINGERPRINT NOTICE

All Department of Corrections employees are required to be fingerprinted. The successful candidate must pass a criminal history check.

RECRUITMENT DIFFICULTIES

Starting salary may be approved up to Step C - $33.50, if criteria are met.

DRIVER'S LICENSE REQUIREMENT

Applicants must possess a valid driver's license. Proof of licensure will be required prior to reporting to duty.

MULTIPLE VACANCIES

This recruitment may be used for more than one (1) vacancy. The applicant pool acquired during this recruitment may be used for future vacancies for up to ninety (90) days after this recruitment closes. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply to each recruitment notice to ensure consideration for all vacancies.

EEO STATEMENT

The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities, who require accommodation, auxiliary aides or services, or alternative communication formats, please call 1-800-587-0430 or 465-4095 in Juneau or [phone] (TTY) or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at: P. O. Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal-opportunity employer.

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Amy Clark

Administrative Officer 2

907-224-8121

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