Maintenance Assistant
Maintenance Assistants perform various tasks to maintain buildings. Some of their primary duties and responsibilities include to assist in maintenance capacities as required.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
- Maintaining and cleaning facilities, equipment, painting, and the environment
- Ensuring office equipment is in good condition by testing and checking for defective components or parts
- Maintaining an up-to-date inventory of equipment
- Diagnosing and troubleshooting maintenance issues
- Handling emergency requests for cleaning and maintenance services
- Communicating with supervisors on the maintenance status of equipment and facilities
- Attending training sessions about best practices for maintaining and cleaning facilities
- Complying with health and safety regulations and removing waste from facilities
- Managing the routine upkeep of outdoor areas, building exteriors, and parking lots
- Troubleshooting issues with lighting, HVAC systems, and plumbing
- Overseeing construction and repair work
Additional Eligibility Qualifications:
- Knowledgeable of the practices, methods, tools, materials, and equipment used in commercial painting.
- Knowledgeable of painting techniques, paints, varnishes, stains, enamels, solvents, and other materials used.
- Knowledgeable of methods of preparing surfaces for painting or other finishing.
- Knowledge in the standard practices of hanging types of walls covering.
- Must be able to read and interpret drawings, specifications, operational manuals, and equipment service manuals.
- Ability to interpret and work from sketches, rough layouts, standard drawings and specifications required.
- Knowledge of the occupational hazards of building trades and of necessary safety precautions.
- Ability to understand oral and written instructions in English.
- Ability to demonstrate critical thinking, time management, decision making/problem solving skills.
- Anticipates problems and takes action to prevent or correct repairs.
- Ability to be supervised/unsupervised and work cooperatively with co-workers and provide good internal and external customer service.
- Ability to use and care for general maintenance tools and equipment.
- Demonstrates an ability to meet deadlines with proven results.
- Basic computer skills preferred.