Maintenance Worker (Leader)
About the role
You will serve as the Maintenance Work Leader for the Patient Care Section, providing day-to-day leadership and coordination for a team of 12 maintenance employees, including Locksmiths, Masons, Carpenters, and Painters. You will oversee maintenance activities supporting a complex medical center campus, consisting of 42 buildings encompassing approximately 975,000 square feet and 128.5 acres, ensuring facilities remain safe, functional, and compliant to support patient care operations.
Responsibilities
- Furnishes instructions, demonstrates proper workmanship, works with, advises, and orders parts, materials, and equipment for the carpentry craft which includes locksmith, glazing, finish, carpentry work, furniture repair and masonry.
- Selects appropriate tools and materials, and completes work using established methods and accepted trade practices.
- Assigns staff to perform visual examinations of areas of the Medical Center by conducting inspections to determine the need for maintenance and repair work on systems, structures and equipment within the area/zone assigned.
- Identifies the types of work required which include installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting and repair of finishes on a wide variety of materials, including ceilings, floors, walls, sidewalk, windows, doors, masonry, locksmithing, carpentry and painting/plastering.
- Identifies, reports and documents deviations in workmanship, quality of installation and adherence to VA standards on overall work operations and problems.
- Buils, modifies, maintains, and repairs buildings and interior structures, including walls, ceilings, partitions, shelving, workbenches, furniture, handrails, wall protection systems, and related fixtures and finishes.
- Performs maintenance, repair, alteration, fabrication, and construction of interior and exterior surfaces, including floors, sidewalks, roads, curbs, manholes, catch basins, and concrete structures. Builds and repairs brick, block, stone, and masonry features using a variety of materials.
- Repairs, overhauls, modifies, tests, and installs locking devices typically found on doors, desks, compartments, mobile equipment, safes, vaults, and other secured locations.
- Repairs stone and brick joints by cleaning, cutting, raking and repainting with mortar and caulking compound.
- Lays blocks or bricks following blueprints, plans, or drawings.
- Performs regular nonsupervisory (i.e., non-leader) work that is usually of the same kind and level as that done by the group led.
Physical Requirements
The incumbent will serve as the Maintenance Worker Leader for a multidisciplinary maintenance team, providing technical guidance, work assignments, and hands-on support for carpentry, locksmithing, masonry, painting, and facility maintenance operations. Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
Work Schedule
Monday - Friday, 7:30 am - 4:00 pm or 8:00 am - 4:30 pm