Building Maintenance Worker (Corrections)

Salary\: $37,154 - $55,718

Position Grade\: 203G

Department\: City Justice Center

Job Type\: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number\: EX1135

Location\: Downtown - St. Louis, MO

Incumbents in this position perform maintenance and repair to city buildings, equipment, and facilities.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities\:

● Maintain and repair stationary engines and mechanical equipment.

● Operate high pressure equipment, generators, air compressors, pumps and other devices.

● Minor electrical repair to include replacement of light fixtures, bulbs, ballast, fuses, circuit breakers, electric door locks, other electrical work.

● Minor plumbing repairs including repair or replacement of toilets, sinks, showers, washers, repair and or replace water valves, sump pumps, flush-o-meters, cut and solder water lines, unclog drains along with other plumbing work.

● Install finish goods to include laying floor tile, carpet, painting, install and finish wood, metal and drywall.

● Replace and or repair cable ready security cameras, recording equipment.

● Be available for on- call duty to include snow removal, evaluate emergency maintenance needs and perform emergency repairs on an on-call rotation.

● Repairs and maintains plumbing, steam and water systems, windows, doors, locks, pumps, fans and other city buildings, facilities and equipment.

● Maintains and performs minor repairs to electrical fixtures, wiring and equipment.

● Replaces plumbing, electrical and building components, fixtures and equipment.

● May fabricate items from metal.

● Operates a wide variety of power and hand tools and equipment to complete tasks.

● Repairs furniture.

● May perform concrete pouring and finishing duties. May repair asphalt pavement, erect and repair fences, erect signs, and install and repair park and recreation equipment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities\:

● Data Utilization\: Requires the ability to perform basic level of data analysis including the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize and/or reference data, statutes and/or guidelines and/or group, rank, investigate and diagnose. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established standards to recognize interactive effects and relationships

● Human Interaction\: Requires the ability to explain, demonstrate and clarify to others within well-established policies, procedures and standards. Ability to follow specific instructions and respond to simple requests from others.

● Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use\: Requires the ability to operate, calibrate, tune and synchronize, and perform complex rapid adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as carpenter tools, plumbing tools, measuring tapes/rulers, circuit tester, ladders, hydraulic lifts, shop bench tools, motor vehicles, concrete tools, welder/cutting torch, compressor, pumps and/or related materials used in performing essential functions.

● Verbal Aptitude\: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and descriptive data and information such as regulations, blueprints, maps, construction drawings, equipment operation manuals, work orders, parts lists and material safety data sheets.

● Mathematical Aptitude\: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages, decimals and fractions. May require the ability to calculate surface area, volume, weights and measures; perform mathematical operations using basic geometry.

● Functional Reasoning\: Requires the ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Involves semi-routine standardized work, with some latitude for independent judgment regarding choices of action.

● Situational Reasoning\: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving a variety of generally pre-defined duties that may be subject to frequent change.

● Environmental Factors\: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards and toxic/poisonous agents.

● Physical Requirements\: Requires the ability to lift, push and pull construction, maintenance and repair equipment, tools, supplies and materials. Requires the ability to stoop, crouch, bend, twist, climb and balance to perform a variety of maintenance and repair duties.

● Sensory Requirements\: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors and texture of materials to detect changes, odors to determine hazardous materials and fumes, sounds to access proper equipment operation and shapes to distinguish objects clearly.