Facilities Specialist

Key Responsibilities

• Plans, accurately lays out work, selects appropriate stock or materials and tools or machines for the job, as specified by work order.
• Fabricates structures, devices, and assembles using powered or manual woodworking, or masonry tools.
• Installs locks and lock sets.
• Performs preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance on cabinets, locks and lock sets, wood structures, concrete or masonry objects and other related equipment, structures, or utility fixtures.
• Participates in the preparation of surfaces for painting, papering, and in the application of the other finishes.
• Mixes and matches paints and stains.
• Applies paint, stain, varnish, wallpaper and other finishes to surfaces by means of a brush, roller or spray equipment.
• Removes and replaces broken window glass.
• Operates motor vehicles such as vans and pick-up trucks.
• Picks up and delivers supplies and equipment to work sites.
• Obtains necessary parts through established procedures.
• Reports and documents results of inspections and work performed.
• Follows established safety, operating and emergency response procedures and policies established by MWRA.

Required Qualifications

• A high school diploma or GED;
• Experience as a journeyman carpenter or completion of an apprenticeship in the carpentry trade or thorough knowledge of the practices of masonry trade or thorough knowledge of the proper techniques of commercial painting;
• Satisfactory completion of competency-based training program in accordance with the productivity improvement plan training program established at MWRA;
• Considerable knowledge of methods of preparing wood, metal, glass, plaster, cement, and other materials and surfaces for painting, as well as the tools, methods and standard practices used in the painting trade;
• Any equivalent combination of education or experience.

Physical Demands

• Regularly works in outside-weather conditions.
• Rarely works near moving mechanical parts.
• Rarely works in precarious places.
• Rarely exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in outside-weather conditions.
• The employee occasionally works in precarious places.
• The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts.
• The employee occasionally is exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock.
• The noise level in the work environment is very loud in field settings, and moderately loud at other work locations.