Trades Maintenance Specialist II - Conservation Lands & Resources

About the role

The Pima County Conservation Lands & Resources Department seeks a Trades Maintenance Specialist II to support maintenance, construction, and restoration projects across thirteen ranch properties, seven flagship mountain and regional parks, and numerous other natural resource parks and conservation areas on 250,000 acres of eastern Pima County.

Responsibilities

• Performs operational and preventive maintenance on complex facilities, equipment, and systems, including ecological or natural resource areas;
• Executes critical repairs to systems and equipment to maintain functionality, ensuring compliance with relevant standards, permits, and regulations;
• Acts as a technical expert in the maintenance and modification of complex equipment and systems, including natural resource management;
• Interprets and applies relevant codes, standards, blueprints, schematics, and diagrams to facilitate work processes;
• Prepares working sketches, drawings, and resource estimates for assigned projects and modifications;
• Operates specialized equipment to support various activities within the organization;
• Recommends improvements to equipment, facilities, and systems to enhance operability, reliability, and compliance with standards;
• Acts as a work center shift supervisor in the absence of the Trades Maintenance Supervisor (TM Supervisor);
• Inspects and approves work performed by maintenance staff, ensuring quality and adherence to standards;
• Captures and maintains comprehensive records of work performed, equipment modifications, and operational logs, and prepares periodic or special reports for management.

Requirements

• Four years of journey-level experience in welding, fence installation, heavy equipment operation, ranch/range work, plumbing, carpentry, and/or concrete pouring and finishing;
• Or Two years of experience with Pima County in a Trades Maintenance Specialist I or closely-related position as determined by the department head at the time of recruitment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum three (3) years of journey level or higher experience in ranch, natural area, conservation area, and/or open space infrastructure maintenance and construction, including experience in three or more of the following areas: road (grading) and trail maintenance (asphalt, concrete, DG and earthen); installation of cattle guards and gates; construction and maintenance of livestock fencing, gates, and vehicle barriers (post/cable, bollards); repair of wells, pumps, and pipelines; building construction, maintenance and demolition; construction of erosion control features; and/or control of invasive species;
• Minimum two (2) years of experience with the loading, securing, transport, and field use of heavy equipment, UTVs/ATVs, and a variety of trailers;
• Minimum two (2) years of journey-level experience in three or more of the following skills: welding, installation of commercial or range fencing, concrete forming, carpentry, plumbing, painting, landscaping, vegetation management, and irrigation, excavation and grading, heavy equipment operation, adobe repair, and construction;
• Minimum three (3) years of experience communicating and working as a team member and leader, ability to communicate with and foster productive relationships with a variety of professional and technical county staff in range, restoration, parks and trails, wells and water systems, cultural resources, conservation science, and environmental education;
• Minimum three (3) years of experience working with ranchers, recreational users, diverse public, and local, state, and federal agency staff in field and office settings;
• Minimum three (3) years of experience with e-mail, preparation of reports in Microsoft Word, and use of Microsoft Excel to create spreadsheets, as well as one (1) year of experience using GPS for navigation/orientation and GIS to create project maps.

Benefits

Details about benefits will be provided in the final offer letter.

Pay

Pay range: $24.66 - $34.53 per hour.

Schedule

Schedule details will be provided in the final offer letter.