Mechanical Maintenance Worker

Salary\: $45,162 - $67,730

Position Grade\: 207T

Department\: Multiple Departments

Job Type\: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number\: EX1700

Location\: St. Louis, MO

Incumbents in this position perform mechanical maintenance duties that include maintaining equipment and systems for heating, ventilating, air conditioning and plumbing. Examples of duties include performing preventative maintenance to equipment; installing equipment such as boilers, air handlers, exhaust fans, plumbing fixtures, motors, pumps, filter tanks, radiators, chillers, compressors, valves, piping, fittings and sewer systems and performing routine electrical repairs.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities\:

● Responsible for mechanical maintenance duties primarily associated with boilers, furnaces, boiler, furnaces, and air handling systems.

● Performs general maintenance on pool filtration systems including the pumps and electric motors.

● Input Information for operational logs and reports.

● May be required to use blow torches for gas welding and metal cutting.

● Performs preventive maintenance, maintenance checks, and services daily. Must have traded skills to operate the equipment required to fulfill this position.

● Maintains equipment and systems for heating, ventilating, air conditioning and plumbing.

● Performs preventive maintenance to equipment. Checks operation, lubricates moving parts, changes belts and filters. Pours and finishes concrete.

● Installs equipment such as boilers, air handlers, exhaust fans, plumbing fixtures, motors, pumps, filter tanks, radiators, chillers, compressors, valves, piping, fittings, sewer systems.

● May perform routine electrical repairs. May maintain pumps, motors, and related systems.

● May occasionally weld, braze and cut metal using electric and gas welding and cutting equipment to fabricate, maintain and repair metal objects on city equipment, pipes, structures, etc.

● Utilizes department equipment as needed. Installs and adjusts control units.

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 provide guidance, assistance and/or interpretation to others, such as coworkers and the public, on how to apply policies, procedures and standards to specific situations.

● 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 tractor, trucks, overhead crane, shop bench tools, hand power tools, carpenter’s tools, plumber’s tools, welder, cutting torch, soldering iron, saws, masonry tools, tape measure 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, diagrams, schematics, work orders, schedules, materials slips, correspondence and general operating manuals.

● Mathematical Aptitude\: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate surface area, volume, percentage, fractions and decimals; perform mathematical operations involving basic algebra and geometry.

● Functional Reasoning\: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.

● Situational Reasoning\: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against measurable or verifiable criteria. ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, balance, bend, and climb in order to perform equipment operation and manual labor duties.

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

● Physical Requirements\: Tasks involve the ability to exert regular and sustained heavy physical effort including the ability to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and regularly lift, carry, push and pull moderately heavy objects and materials, twenty to fifty pounds; and occasionally involve objects and materials up to 100 pounds.

● Sensory Requirements\: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors and shapes to clearly distinguish objects, sounds to detect malfunctioning equipment, odors to detect overheating equipment and textures to distinguish finishes.