Buildings and Grounds "A" (Facilities / Buildings Maintenance)

Facilities Maintenance Technician

Performs a variety of highly skilled facilities maintenance responsibilities associated with ensuring operational efficiency and effectiveness of LYNX facilities and passenger / transit amenities.

Essential functions include :

• Performs work relative to installation, renovation, construction, repair, maintenance, and preventative maintenance inspections of buildings, premises, and property.
• Performs complex electrical, plumbing, carpentry, welding, hydraulic, pneumatic, heating, refrigeration, ventilating, air conditioning, and other facilities maintenance work.
• Diagnoses problems and makes repairs or replacements of worn or defective parts of equipment.
• Reads and interprets blueprints, schematics, and technical manuals pertaining to facilities and equipment installed and serviced.
• Surveys work requirements; measures and calculates materials, labor, and systems requirements; prepares materials lists and carries out required tasks in a timely and efficient manner.
• Measures and installs pipes, fittings, and fixtures for heaters, fans, water and drainage systems; cuts and threads pipes; assembles and installs valves and fittings; joins and caulks pipes; replaces washers; mends pipes; and opens drains.
• Cuts and installs windows and doors; installs walls, light fixtures, and ceilings; builds and installs counters, cabinets, and partitions; verifies structure trueness using plumb bob and level; installs or replaces doorknobs and locks.
• Patches concrete and asphalt paving; patches asphalt roofs; repairs pit boards and gratings in garages.
• Moves furniture and office equipment.
• Safely operates electrical and air powered tools, pipe fittings, welding, hydraulic, pneumatic, and other mechanical tools, equipment, and / or heavy equipment assigned to the department.
• Textures walls; paints interiors and exteriors of existing or remodeled premises; lays out and paints parking or traffic lanes and signs; repaints or fabricates route signs.
• Repairs or removes bus shelters, benches, signs and poles; provides general maintenance and upkeep of these facilities.
• Installs or makes repairs to lights and electrical systems in bus shelters.
• Records completed maintenance tasks on work orders; uses computer terminal for data entry, inquiry and modification.
• Performs other duties as may be required or assigned.

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