Maintenance Assistant, Residential Maintenance Services

Maintenance Assistant, Residential Maintenance Services

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Campus Living is accepting applications for the Maintenance Assistant position. In this role, you will work with a team of dynamic and diverse individuals and ensure that structures and equipment are installed correctly, properly maintained, and repaired as needed across UB’s North and South campuses. All the Student Life trades, and custodial staff work within UB’s residential halls and apartments.

In a typical year, Campus Living houses up to 7,500 students  skilled trades and custodial staff care for the buildings our students live in. Our priority is the health and safety of our students. Without dedicated cleaners and maintenance staff, the university would not be able to have a residential program.

• Perform routine replacement and repair of plumbing equipment.
• Repairing and installing equipment such as dishwashers, laundry equipment, repair leaks in water lined.
• Maintain and hang signage.
• Semiskilled carpentry activities including repairing doors, windows, stairs, railings, furniture, locks, and door hardware.
• Masonry and concrete repairs or installations.
• Paint and make repairs to vacant living spaces.
• Install light fixtures, outlets, and switches.
• Repair electrical equipment.

At Campus Living, we strive to achieve personal growth and learning every day, for everyone. We are a community that welcomes and celebrates every student, staff, and guest with all their diverse identities, beliefs, and ways of thinking. Our team recognizes the advantages diverse perspectives and backgrounds bring to the workplace. We are particularly interested in candidates who share this value and will work to achieve the university’s goals of inclusive excellence.

Working at UB comes with benefits that exceed salary alone. There are personal rewards including comprehensive health and retirement plan options. We also focus on creating and sustaining a healthy mix of work, personal and academic pursuit - all in an effort to support your work-life effectiveness. We support your growth and development through our career coaching and training department and we qualify as a public service loan forgiveness organization.

Learn more about our benefits website
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As a member of Student Life, you will join service professionals, all driven by one shared set of values designed to help ensure students’ well‑being, create a safe and supportive environment, and promote student success. In Student Life, growth is a shared passion. We aim for excellence, thinking big and going bold. We pursue our goals tenaciously while stewarding the student experience.

We build communities and advance diversity in all forms. We encourage discovery and celebrate success. University at Buffalo is an affirmative action equal‑opportunity employer and, in keeping with our commitment, welcomes all to apply including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

The University at Buffalo (UB) is one of America’s leading public research universities and a flagship of the State University of New York system, recognized for our excellence and our impact. UB is a premier, research‑intensive public university dedicated to academic excellence. Our research, creative activity and people positively impact the world. Like the city we call home, UB is distinguished by a culture of resilient optimism, resourceful thinking and pragmatic dreaming that enables us to reach others every day.

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. University at Buffalo is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and, in keeping with our commitment, welcomes all to apply including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

• Seniority level:
  Entry level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Management and Manufacturing
• Industry: Higher Education
• Location:
  
  Buffalo, NY
• Salary: $18.00 – $23.00 per hour