Maintenance Specialist

City of Durham; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the City of Durham's Parks and Recreation team as a Maintenance Worker, where you will perform routine preventative maintenance and repairs across the parks system. This role involves maintaining facilities, operating equipment, and overseeing minor repair tasks. With a commitment to community service, you'll help enhance the quality of life for Durham residents.

Qualifications

• Four years of equipment operation or technical repair experience related to assignment.
• Valid North Carolina Class C Driver’s License with a satisfactory driving record.

Responsibilities

• Perform routine preventive maintenance across the City’s parks system.
• Oversee regular and emergency maintenance, responding to customer requests.
• Operate light to heavy equipment including backhoes and dump trucks.

Skills

Carpentry

General Construction

Small Engine Maintenance

Building Trades

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent (GED, HiSet, TASC)

Job description

Work, Serve, Thrive. With the City of Durham
Advance in your career while making a real difference in the community you serve.

A nationally accredited team of passionate professionals devoted to building better lives and a better community through the power of parks and recreation. Our talented team at Durham Parks and Recreation is devoted to community service and provides a diverse range of programs, services, opportunities, and experiences while being united through our core pillars of creating equitable economic impacts; advancing conservation; rejuvenating health and wellness; enhancing quality of life and sustaining social equity.


Hiring Salary Range: $49,026.00 - $56,764.00
Work Hours/Days: 6:30 am - 3:00 pm Monday-Friday; some evenings/weekends required

The purpose of this position is to address daily, ongoing minor repairs and to perform routine preventive maintenance across the City's parks system. It is responsible for maintaining park facilities (examples include but are not limited to: shelters, courts, restrooms and other park amenities such as playgrounds, water fountains, light fixtures, sinks, grills, etc.). Position may also be responsible for minor repairs and routine maintenance for small engines in park maintenance equipment (blowers, mowers, weed eaters, etc.) This is accomplished by overseeing regular and emergency maintenance, responding to customer requests, and making skilled repairs. Other duties may include leading the work of semi-skilled and unskilled workers, getting price quotes, completing special projects and assignments, handling moving requests, assisting with special events and 24-Hour Emergency (On-call) Response.

• Performs and/or assists with coordinating maintenance operations; installs, operates, and/or repairs vehicles, signs, pumps, pipes, water lines, and other devices and equipment at assigned facilities or sites; performs skilled plumbing, carpentry, concrete work, masonry, painting, and welding duties; and/or performs preventative maintenance on HVAC equipment, tools, and small engines.
• Inspects conditions of equipment, vehicles, signs, and other materials at assigned facilities or sites; sets up work safe zones and detour routes; directs traffic; and addresses safety issues to detect and troubleshoot maintenance-related issues; and ensures compliance with established safety and operational policies and practices.
• Operates light to heavy equipment, to include backhoes, excavators, dump trucks, front-end loaders, rollers, and compactors.
• Prepares and maintains reports and records, performs data entry, receives and processes work orders and service requests, and updates work order systems and related databases, to document and facilitate maintenance operations, and ensure compliance with applicable policies and procedures.
• Performs other duties of a similar nature and level as assigned.
• Maintaining municipal buildings, and/or park amenities and facilities (i.e. playgrounds, picnic shelters, spray grounds, bathrooms, etc.).
• Making plumbing repairs; repairing underground piping at swimming pools; servicing pumps; and soldering water lines.
• Repairing and installing fences.
• Performing carpentry, concrete or masonry work; painting, welding, and sheet-rocking.
• Assisting with HVAC cleaning and preventative maintenance.
• Performing preventative maintenance on tools and small engine equipment.

• High School Diploma or equivalent (GED, HiSet, TASC).
• Four years of equipment operation, or technical repair experience in areas related to assignment.
• Valid North Carolina Class C Driver’s License with a satisfactory driving record.

The City of Durham Encourages Diversity in the Workplace.

• Willing to work a flex schedule (evenings, weekends, and/or holidays.
• Experience using a smart phone.
• Experience/skilled in the following: carpentry, general construction, small engine maintenance and repair, building trades experience (carpentry, plumbing, or electrical).

About the company

Local municipal government for the City of Durham, North Carolina. For Durham One Call service requests, visit http://DurhamNC.gov, download the smartphone app in the Apple or Google Play stores, or call [phone].

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