Technician I, Facilities Services

About the Role

• Play an important role in creating a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for students, employees, and visitors.
• Combines specialized custodial work with hands-on building maintenance.
• Full-time position with a consistent Monday-through-Friday schedule from 4:30 p.m. to 1:15 a.m.
• Regular rotation between work areas provides opportunities to build a broad range of skills and gain experience across multiple campus environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Performs specialized custodial duties, including cleaning, refinishing, and maintaining floor coverings and surfaces, cleaning restrooms, pest control, and other assigned tasks.
• Assists in maintaining adequate stock of cleaning supplies, inventory, and spaces.
• Organizes closets and storage areas to stock parts and supplies.
• Performs various preventative and maintenance repairs to facilities such as lights, toilets, walls, blinds, and fixtures.
• Performs various maintenance trades work requiring the application of trade skills, codes, and standard trade practices.
• Inspects assigned buildings, fixtures, machines, and appliances.
• Maintains and repairs various types of furniture, fabric surfaces, and upholstery.
• Performs minor installation, repair, and replacement of electrical, plumbing, carpentry, heating, and cooling systems as needed.
• Reports complex or unusual problems to supervisor.
• Assembles and disassembles furniture as requested.
• Performs minor furniture moves across campus.
• Installs/hangs various office accessories.
• Maintains custodial equipment and vehicles by performing preventative and repair maintenance on equipment such as buffers, vacuums, scrubbers, and burnishers.
• Performs preventative and operating maintenance on vehicles, including fueling, monitoring tire pressure, oil and coolant levels, and battery status.
• Assists with general custodial coverage as needed.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Any combination of post-high school education and/or directly related full-time experience totaling one year.
• CMMS software
• Microsoft Office software

Knowledge

• Knowledge of electrical and electronic systems maintenance and repair.
• Knowledge of the operation and repair of various types of motors.
• Knowledge of basic hand tools and equipment used in routine building maintenance.
• Knowledge of ADA standards for proper mounting of equipment and accessories.
• Knowledge of proper cleaning techniques and standards.
• Knowledge of all floor types (terrazzo, cement, wood, vinyl, ceramic tile, carpet).
• Knowledge of waxes/polishes, acids, other chemicals, buffers, extractors, vacuums, and scrubbers.
• Knowledge of basic pest control.
• Knowledge of safe work practices.

Skills

• Skilled in the use of hand and power tools.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and in writing.
• Service-oriented; actively seeks opportunities to help others.
• Skills in operating personal computers.

Abilities

• Ability to learn and care for an assigned area and equipment.
• Ability to read electronic and mechanical schematics and diagrams.
• Ability to operate saws, grinders, drills, forklifts, buffers, and various hand tools.
• Ability to operate cleaning equipment, such as vacuums, carpet extractors, and burnishers.
• Ability to understand chemical cleaning applications and methods.
• Ability to identify maintenance problems that need attention and repair.
• Ability to understand and follow safety procedures.
• Ability to work well under pressure, meeting multiple and sometimes conflicting deadlines.