Maintenance Technician in Brooklyn, New York at Career Systems Development Corporation

Job Summary: Performs duties in various highly skilled trade areas.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Prepares reports and forms and documents. Enter data in the Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Maintains confidentiality but reports significant events or situations immediately through approved channels to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of students and staff, and to ensure that required reporting occurs, and that students receive emergency services as needed.
• Follows all required Safety Protocols, including the proper use of PPE.
• Facilitates prompt and appropriate assistance to students in the event of injury, illness, or emotional trauma.
• Performs interior and exterior center janitorial, building maintenance and ground keeping assignments according to work orders.
• Performs necessary skilled work in one or more areas of plumbing, heating, carpentry and other skill trade areas as needed.
• Performs carpentry work in repairing or replacing doors, windows, walls, flooring, roofing, painting and any other work pertaining to wood structures.
• Performs plumbing, heating, and air-conditioning work in repairing or replacing furnaces, duct work, air conditioners, piping instrument controls, wash basins, toilet facilities and any other work pertaining to heating, air-conditioning, and plumbing facilities.
• Performs electrical work in repairing and replacing fluorescent fixtures, control switches, disconnecting wiring and any other work pertaining to electrical facilities.
• Performs minor construction such as building storage bins, stockroom shelves, counters, work benches, etc.
• Uses precision hand tools and power tools.
• May transport students by bus and automobile.
• May drive trucks and other vehicles including PIV (Powered Industrial Vehicles)
• Directs the work activities of general maintenance personnel.
• Attends required staff training sessions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Minimum: High school graduate or equivalent. Three years’ experience in the respective fields of electrical, heating, refrigeration, mechanical and carpentry work.

Preferred: Certificate of completion from building trades training program or apprenticeship program. Extensive experience in the building trades.

Knowledge: Must possess a valid State driver’s license. Ability to obtain a commercial driver’s license if required. Ability to operate power and hand tools. Sound working knowledge of electrical, HVAC, building maintenance & construction fields. Ability to read and interpret schematics. Ability to handle multiple tasks.

Physical Requirements:

Frequently

Sitting

Seeing

Hearing

Speaking

Driving

Occasionally

Standing

Walking

Bending

Stooping

Squatting

Flexibility

Seldom

Climbing

Lifting 50 pounds

Carrying

Kneeling

Pushing/Pulling

Running

Environmental Demands:

Equipment: Ability to operate office equipment

Work Alone: Occasionally works alone

Work With Others: 85% of time spent working and interacting with team and other departments

Reading: Ability to read at a high school level

Writing: Ability to write at a high school level