Facility Maintenance Technician

About the Role

For more than 50 years, millions of professional truck drivers and motorists have relied on TravelCenters of America's travel centers for fuel, food, truck maintenance, and essential services. As a Facility Maintenance Technician, you'll be a key member of our team, ensuring a safe and well-maintained environment for our customers. You'll perform repairs and maintenance on electrical, plumbing, HVAC, mechanical equipment, boiler systems, and environmental control systems across all departments of our location.

Responsibilities

• Perform installations, inspections, repairs, and maintenance of electrical, plumbing, HVAC, mechanical equipment, boiler systems, and environmental control systems.
• Conduct general repairs, including painting/caulking, patching walls, security hardware, roof repairs, pavement repairs, tile and floor repairs, hanging shelves, facility lighting, and landscaping.
• Coordinate the work of outside contractors to ensure the scope of work is performed correctly.
• Maintain appropriate inventory of materials, equipment, and supplies.
• Coordinate, assign, and inspect work for completeness of porters and housekeeping staff.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED with vocational training in general maintenance and equipment repair.
• Demonstrated ability in general maintenance or other maintenance responsibilities.
• Ability to operate machinery and equipment, including tow motors, and basic hand tools.
• HVAC/Electrical/Plumbing certifications preferred.
• Ability to work flexible hours, including nights, weekends, and some holidays.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• 401(k) with a company match.
• Vacation and paid holidays.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• On-site meal discounts.
• A wide variety of discounts on technology, travel, food, and fuel.
• Opportunity for growth and advancement.

Not all benefit plans are available to all team members. For a more comprehensive list of benefits, please visit https://www.ta-petro.com/careers/working-at-ta-travel-centers.

Pay

$19.00 - $25.00 per hour. The pay will depend on various factors, such as responsibilities of the position, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills.

Physical Demands

This role requires regular talking and hearing. Occasional standing, walking, kneeling, stooping, bending over, crouching, crawling, climbing, and repetitive use of legs. The team member must occasionally lift up to 50 lbs and/or move heavy objects. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The employee may be exposed to outdoor elements in all seasons, fumes, particles, moving mechanical parts, and vibration. The noise level can be loud at times, and the employee may come into contact with dirt, dust, grime, grease, oil, gas, and high-concentrated cleaning solutions.