General Maintenance Worker

About the role

The General Maintenance Worker will monitor facilities and ensure high standards of excellence. They will provide customer service, perform repairs, communicate with management, and train other workers.

Responsibilities

• Provides customer service to students, faculty, staff, and external customers.
• Maintains friendly, helpful demeanor.
• Ensures full customer satisfaction without unnecessarily referring customers to other staff members.
• Maintains and repairs appliances including air conditioners, heaters, refrigerators, stoves, ovens, and dishwashers.
• Troubleshoots and repairs or replaces appliance parts and commercial kitchen equipment.
• Maintains appliance part inventory.
• Builds interior walls, fabricates cabinets, drawers, and screens, assembles furniture.
• Repairs or replaces closet doors, drawers, non-fire rated doors, door locks, closers, and hinges, tiles, bathroom fixtures, etc.
• Performs preventive maintenance.
• Installs safety restraints on cabinets and furniture.
• Patches and stretches carpet, replaces broken windows and ceiling tiles, performs caulking.
• Replaces light bulbs, ballasts, switches, plugs, light fixtures, etc.
• Maintains room wiring systems and emergency exit signs, adjusts timers, tests and replaces smoke detectors and emergency lights.
• Secures electrical wires.
• Repairs vacuum cleaners as needed.
• Prepares walls for painting, patches holes, replaces drywall, paints.
• Stains and refinishes wood work, such as wall paneling and furniture, etc.
• Affords roof repairs, repairs or replaces tiles, performs caulking.
• Repairs or replaces various plumbing fixtures and hardware, unclogs drains, performs minor repairs on water heaters, performs light welding, light vehicle maintenance, performs utility work, installs or removes posts and signs, patching street holes with asphalt, repairing gates, etc.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.

Qualifications

• Specialized or technical training.
• Experience: 6 – 12 months.
• Expertise: Ability to communicate effectively in English.
• Knowledge of thermodynamic laws, refrigerator cycles, electricity principles, test/detection instruments, hand/power tools, AC/DC currents, wood finishing, wiring, painting, construction, and plumbing.
• Presents oneself professionally, in line with higher education environment.
• Valid CA driver's license required.
• Position will participate in the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Pull Notice System.

Preferred Qualifications

• Specialized or technical training.
• 2 – 3 years of experience in appliance repair, plumbing, HVAC, outlet repair, and/or electrical.
• HVAC certification.
• Experience supporting a hospitality/restaurant/retail department.
• Experience troubleshooting and performing basic repairs (i.e. carpentry) and painting maintenance.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment, and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to train students, temporary, and/or resource workers.

Benefits

The University of Southern California offers a wide variety of benefits and programs that support its staff and their families. For more information, please visit here.

Pay

The hourly rate for this position is $25.50.

Schedule

The schedule for this position is not specified.