Facilities Technician
SNO-ISLE LIBRARIES
invites applications for the position of:
Facilities Technician
Location: Service Center (Marysville)
Pay Range: $27.89 - $38.35 Hourly
Hours per Week: 40
Job Requisition: 19642
This position will remain open until sufficient qualified applicants are received. To ensure first consideration, please submit your online application by December 24, 2019.
Job Summary
Under direction of the Facilities Manager, perform maintenance and minor repairs in Sno-Isle library buildings and outside grounds to ensure safe, efficient and continuous operation. Provide proactive inspection and troubleshooting services, make needed repairs and respond to work orders submitted by staff.
Essential Functions
- Inspect facilities, perform routine or preventive maintenance, and repair as needed. This includes, but is not limited to: painting, wall repair, furniture, equipment, vehicles, and minor plumbing, HVAC and electrical mechanical repairs.
- Assist Facilities Manager to schedule and coordinate with contractors, as needed. Maintain cordial, professional relationships with Sno-Isle contractors.
- Assist Facilities Manager with record keeping and scheduling for maintenance and repairs for all Sno-Isle vehicles.
- Source and procure needed parts, equipment and supplies. Maintain inventory of commonly used parts and supplies.
- Operate hand and power tools and other machinery in a safe and efficient manner.
- Climb and use ladders in a safe and efficient manner.
- May fill in as a driver to transport library materials, equipment and mail throughout the Library District's areas of operation.
Additional Duties and Responsibilities
- Assist with preparing libraries for closing and reopening for non-routine operations.
- Perform other related duties as required or as assigned.
Supervision
This position reports to the Facilities Manager. Supervision of others is not a normal part of positions of the class.
Core Library Competencies
- Adaptability: Adjust nimbly to obstacles or changing conditions to arrive at the desired goal.
- Communication: Express self clearly, effectively, and compellingly in written, verbal, and nonverbal messages.
- Customer Service: Build and maintain responsive, effective relationships with internal and external customers.
- Interpersonal: Accurately perceive others and the impact of one's own behavior to balance relationship and goal needs appropriately and positively in interactions.
- Professionalism: Align behavior with the library's mission, values, and strategic focus in serving a diverse stakeholder community.
- Valuing Diversity: Manages relationships with all people inclusively and equitably; conveys respect by valuing and encouraging the unique dimension each employee adds to the organization and each member of the community brings to the whole. Demonstrates an ongoing commitment to expand one’s own awareness, knowledge, and skills of others’ cultures, beliefs, identities, languages, interpersonal styles, and behaviors.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Must have competent knowledge of: safety codes and practices; using Safety Data Sheets (SDS); using power and hand tools safely and skillfully in the performance of duties; and basic carpentry, electrical, HVAC, painting and plumbing work.
- Fundamental knowledge and experience with working in a facilities and construction environment.
- Basic understanding of skilled labor trades, terms, power tools, building systems, and vocabulary.
- Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, co-workers, and supervisor.
- Ability to effectively trouble-shoot problems related to building systems.
- Ability to multitask effectively, reprioritize tasks constantly based on the ever changing facilities needs and daily situational awareness of necessary tasks and human factors such as safety and health.
- Ability to work under stress with distractions to meet deadlines and needs with minimal supervision.
- Ability to learn facilities and construction related terms, trades, activities, requirements, and systems.
- Ability to perform simple business math calculations; analyze data, create reports and charts.
- Ability to understand and carry out general instructions in facilities and business situations.
- Ability to solve problems and respond in a calm reasonable rational manner in all situations.
- Ability to use computers, Microsoft Office programs and standard office machines.
- Ability to work cooperatively and maintain interpersonal skills with the public and co-workers at all levels of the organization utilizing excellent customer service skills.
- Ability to provide a current driver's license from the State of Washington, insurability for vehicle operation and be free of any moving traffic violations or chargeable vehicle accidents for a period of not less than three consecutive years.
Education and Experience
- High School Diploma or a General Education Degree (GED).
- These skills and abilities typically are acquired through a combination of experience and training including at least four years of experience performing building maintenance work in a commercial or institutional environment.
- Maintenance experience must include: Completing basic carpentry, electrical, HVAC, painting and plumbing work.
- The completion of a maintenance apprenticeship or certification program could reduce the number of years of experience required.
Physical and Environmental Conditions
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a staff member to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the incumbent is required to: talk and hear; sit, stand and walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; manipulate computer terminals and personal computers, overhead lifting, stand and walk; stoop and bend; lift, push, pull, carry, load and unload objects or materials weighing up to 50 pounds.
Climbing at heights, kneeling and crawling may be required while evaluating or performing maintenance tasks. Specific vision abilities include sufficient vision to read and recognize numbers and alphabetical characters on computer monitors and the ability to pass the Washington State driver license requirement and to see clearly for safe vehicle operation in accordance with the Library District's standards.
The work of incumbents is carried out in outdoor and indoor locations including construction areas and loading docks and may be affected by weather conditions. Driving is required during adverse weather conditions such as rain, snow and ice and those conditions may change during the course of a work day.
There is frequent interpersonal contact with city staff, contractors/vendors and co-workers. These contacts and situations are deemed to be generally safe and free of undue stress, and require the incumbent to be cordial and helpful in interpersonal relations with others. For any of the typical uses of the class, reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The following questions will be asked during the application process:
- Please indicate which of the following education, training, and certifications you possess:
- A combination of experience and training including four years of experience performing building maintenance work in a commercial or institutional environment.
- Experience in completing basic carpentry, electrical, HVAC, painting, and plumbing work.
- Maintenance Apprenticeship or Certification Program.
- I do not have any of the above education, training and/or certifications.
- Provide at least two examples of your experience in facilities maintenance tasks such as carpentry, painting, plumbing, and mechanical.
- Provide one or two examples of your experience in equipment repairs, coordinating work or activities with a variety of vendors or people.
- Provide at least two examples when you had to troubleshoot a repair with the help of others.
- Provide one example of a time when you maintained active communication with your customers or peers to keep them informed of your progress while coordinating a task or project.