Maintenance Mechanic

Introduction

The Maryland School for the Deaf (MSD) is a diverse, bilingual community who in partnership with families, provides an equitable and exemplary education in a nurturing, engaging, and challenging environment to ensure our students achieve personal excellence and become lifelong learners.

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MSD, Frederick Campus, 101 Clarke Place, Frederick, MD 21705

Perform general maintenance tasks, such as simple construction, preventative maintenance, improvements and minor repairs to buildings, fixtures, mechanical equipment, grounds and roadways.

• Performs regularly scheduled maintenance services and minor repairs to building equipment items, including but not limited to air conditioning systems, boilers, hydraulic systems, circulator pumps, air handler units, electric pump motors, refrigeration equipment items, exhaust fans, cooling towers, and ice chillers.
• Cleans and lubricates pump and motor bearings, adjusts motor belt tension and replaces equipment filters.
• Cleans mechanical and equipment room spaces by sweeping and mopping floors and wiping down equipment to maintain a clean environment.
• Makes daily inspections of the physical plant, facility and utility operations to ensure the reliability/safety of all plant equipment, optimizing the overall environment for staff, visitors and students.
• Performs plumbing repairs and adjustments to heating system components, lavatory fixtures, hand sinks, and water fountains. Unclogs toilets, sinks, water fountains and floor and roof drains to ensure proper operation. Repairs or replaces lavatory enclosure components, panels and hardware items. Checks pipes for leaks.
• Performs carpentry repairs including but not limited to repair furniture, move, change or construct interior walls, frame drywall, hang doors, replace windows and window panes, install cabinets. Applies finish and/or paint to completed projects.
• Performs masonry functions to interior or exterior functions which may include repairs to cracks and imperfections in sheet rock, block walls, concrete slabs, concrete walkways and asphalt paving.
• Performs minor electrical repair functions which may include replacing covers, light bulbs, light fixtures, and assisting with troubleshooting electrical wiring problems. Assists with the installation of new electrical conduit, wiring and switches.
• Performs ground maintenance functions which may include mowing, trimming, pruning, planting, mulching, weeding and watering. Cleans walkways, building surfaces, window wells, gutters. Performs snow and ice removal. Maintains and services equipment.
• Performs other duties that may be required and/or as directed.

• Education:
  
  Eighth grade.
• Experience:
  
  Three years of experience in any combination of the maintenance trades provided that at least two years of experience are primarily in the trades of electricity, plumbing, steam fittings, refrigeration or air-conditioning.
• Notes:
  Candidates may substitute additional experience in any of the maintenance trades on a year‑for‑year basis for up to three years of the required education; candidates may substitute the possession of a degree from an accredited vocational or technical high school with a major in Building Maintenance or a related field; candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a non‑commissioned officer in utilities repair classifications or construction and engineering specialty codes in any combination of maintenance trades on a year‑for‑year basis for the required experience.

• Prior experience in facilities maintenance and/or trade experience.
• Willing to learn American Sign Language.
• Able to lift 50 lbs. or more.
• Able to assist with snow removal on the campus.

Employees in this classification may be assigned duties which require the operation of a motor vehicle. Employees assigned such duties will be required to possess a motor vehicle operator’s license valid in the State of Maryland.

• New hires are subject to a criminal background investigation at their own expense.
• Can…