MAINTENANCE MECHANIC

Job Summary

About the role

The role involves performing various maintenance tasks involving construction and alteration repairs of NEXCOM Hospitality Group NHG buildings and equipment.

Responsibilities

• Performs plumbing repairs to sinks, faucets, commodes, tanks, urinals, P-traps, shut-off valves, washing machines, and water supply.
• Installs water heaters, garbage disposals, faucets, and sinks.
• Plans and lays out work in accordance with drawings, sketches, blueprints, and own knowledge of construction or needed repairs.
• Works from building plans, blueprints, and sketches to plan and lay out the routing, placement, slant, slope, and proper operation of systems and equipment.
• Installs, modifies, and repairs systems like those described above by locating and tapping main lines, setting up system routes, placing and cutting route openings, placing hangers for proper level and slope, and determining and installing valves, traps, and unions needed for proper operation of systems.
• Performs washer and dryer repair by performing routine maintenance on washers and dryers to include cleaning lint ducts and vents, replacing hoses and fittings as required, and referring more complex problems to supervisor for action.
• Recognizes cause of faulty equipment and makes repairs on a variety of HVAC units.
• Installs, modifies, and repairs HVAC units and systems used to condition areas and cool equipment such as water dispensers and small structures or areas that use unit comfort coolers, window units, and other similar equipment.
• Performs electrical repairs by removing, replacing, tightening, splicing, soldering, and insulating defective wiring, controls, equipment, and fixtures such as broken and bare wiring, burned out switches and relays, loose connections, and fittings, damaged light fixtures, and poorly operating thermostats.
• Replaces fluorescent and incandescent ballasts, bulbs, and tubes.
• May install or repair electrical systems incidental to the construction or maintenance of facilities.
• Completes needed repairs to installed systems and rearranges and hooks up items such as outlets, switches, light fixtures, regulators, and circuit breakers.
• Uses skilled techniques to construct, install, repair, and modify wood and wood substitute structures and items requiring close tolerance fit and structural soundness.
• Constructs and repairs a wide variety of structural items such as building frames, rafters, concrete forms, walls, staircases, door and window frames, interior and exterior trim, and miscellaneous items such as workbenches, counter tops, bookcases, equipment cabinets, computer consoles, and items requiring limited decorative trim and molding.
• Set up and operate a wide variety of wood working machines and tools.
• Assembles items with a variety of joining techniques such as miters, rabbets, dados, biscuits, and uses glues and adhesives to secure wood pieces, veneers, and counter tops.
• Interprets drawings, blueprints, and specifications independently and determines the layout and work sequences and types of lumber or special related materials.
• Plans and carries out projects from initial layout to completion.
• Determines methods, techniques, devices, and materials that are best suited to the surface finish required, such as glossy finish, grained effect, or finishes that must meet specified thicknesses and levels.
• Prepares surfaces by methods such as smoothing with pumice and rottenstone, filling, shaping, leveling with metal and synthetic resins, and mixing and applying pre-coating agents such as pickling and alkali compounds.
• Applies coating materials with accepted trade devices, including those designed to give special effects such as brushes, rollers, spray guns, and graining devices.
• Ensures the coating finish meets match, texture, decorative thickness, and level requirements.

Requirements

• One year of experience that provided the applicant with knowledge of general maintenance practices involving the upkeep of buildings, grounds, fixtures, and equipment.
• One year of high school education may be substituted for 3 months of general experience up to a High School Diploma or GED for one year of general experience.
• Three years of general maintenance work in involving variety of trade practices associated with such occupations as air conditioning and refrigeration, electrical work, plumbing, carpentry, masonry, and painting, etc., including knowledge of safety and environmental rules and regulations concerning procedures, tools, mechanical, and electrified equipment, chemicals, and basic safe work practices.

Qualifications

• Physical Requirements: Standing, stooping, bending, kneeling, climbing, and work in tiring and uncomfortable positions. Frequently lifts and carries material weighing up to 50 pounds.

Skills

• Knowledge of general maintenance practices involving the upkeep of buildings, grounds, fixtures, and equipment.
• Knowledge of safety and environmental rules and regulations concerning procedures, tools, mechanical, and electrified equipment, chemicals, and basic safe work practices.

Benefits

• N/A

Pay

• N/A

Schedule

• Full-Time (35+ hours)