Maintenance Worker I

About the role

The Facilities Management Department is seeking a dynamic and motivated Maintenance Worker I to join our team. We're looking for a quick-thinking, solutions-driven professional with a strong and versatile background in facilities maintenance. In this role, you'll be at the heart of maintaining and enhancing our facilities and infrastructure, directly strengthening day-to-day airport operations and ensuring everything runs safely, smoothly, and efficiently. Your contributions will make a meaningful impact not only on the SAN traveler experience, but also on the overall reliability and success of airport operations.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance: Performs routine-to-skilled duties with maintenance and repair with construction, concrete, sidewalks, driveways, monuments, curbs, gutters, asphalts, lots, maintenance and repair of physical plant, public works infrastructure, and facilities.
• Aids craft and trade personnel such as electricians, HVAC technicians, carpenters, painters, plumbers, and maintenance mechanics with welding tasks and metal fabrication.
• Compliance: Monitors and inspects work performed by others and contractors, ensures compliance with safety standards and regulations, participates in the development and implementation of preventive and predictive maintenance standards and schedules; recommends special work or equipment maintenance.
• Responds to emergency situations.
• Equipment and Tools: Operates light and medium-duty motorized maintenance and construction equipment including forklifts, trucks, trailers, aerial lifts and pavement and street sweepers, hand and power tools.
• Complete physical labor-related tasks and relocates office furniture.
• Vehicle Operation: Operates and drives Authority vehicles daily to and from work sites, transporting necessary equipment to ensure timely arrival and efficient completion of repairs.
• Flexibility: The candidate selected for this vacancy may work a non-traditional work schedule which requires night shift and weekend work; including being called back to work during emergency situations.
• Administrative: Operates computer to create and access records, timecards and work orders, operates vehicles to work sites, attends meetings with departments and performs related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Graduation from high school or G.E.D;
• One year experience in the use of hand, power tools, equipment, and machinery associated with construction, mechanical, electrical, or building trades;
• Equivalent combination of training and experience.

Skills

• Project Management: Accurately assesses project scope and timeline by determining required process steps and resources needed to achieve defined outcomes and objectives; monitors and verifies task completion and resolves coordination issues to assure efficient, timely completion.
• Relationship & Interpersonal Skills: Cultivates interpersonal rapport and trust, both up and down, by exhibiting consistency and reliability; demonstrated awareness of others' needs.
• Leveraging Technology: Effectively uses and generates information electronically integrates technology solutions and systems.
• Critical Thinking: Work independently, critically reviews and translates project requirements, data and information to specify solutions or alternative practice in support of business objectives and strategies.
• Communication & Customer Focus: Proficiently exchange information through multiple opportunities including verbal, digital, written, facilitation of work completion and persuasion.
• Equipment Operation: Operate and maintain hand and power tools, equipment common to the public works maintenance, building construction and maintenance trades.
• Problem-Solving: Analyzes situation or factor, collaboratively generate alternative and practical solutions, readily adapts behavior or new work methods, evolving and unexpected situations.
• Exercise independent judgment and initiative within established guidelines and without close supervision.

Benefits

• 14 paid holidays,
• 18 - 33 days of vacation (PTO),
• parental and child care benefits,
• salary continuance for family & parental leave,
• tuition reimbursement,
• ensure your future with our retirement plan options including our comprehensive pension plan and 457 defined contribution plan.
• Plus, take advantage of our annual employer-funded Lifestyle Spending Account, designed to support your personal development and growth activities—and much more!

Pay

The hiring salary for the Maintenance Worker I is $25.68 an hour. The full pay range for the Maintenance Worker I is $25.68 - $29.95 - $34.76. Work performed on 2nd or 3rd shift is eligible for shift differential pay of $2.25 (2nd shift) or $2.50 (3rd shift).

Schedule

The candidate selected for this vacancy may work a non-traditional work schedule which requires night shift and weekend work; including being called back to work during emergency situations.

Location

Facilities Management Department (FMD) Administration Building, located on San Diego International Airport campus's north end and sits adjacent to the rental car facility, providing one-of-a-kind views of our runway, along with several outdoor terraces and courtyards for employees to engage with nature.