Facilities Maintenance Technician

$16.95 - $19.92/hour DOQ Full-Time employer paid benefits package (medical, dental, vision, life, vacation leave, sick leave, retirement)

SUMMARY: Maintains city right-of-ways, grounds, and facilities at all city properties by performing the following duties.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The following are not to be construed as an exclusive or all-inclusive listing of skills and abilities req

• Demonstrates commitment to Team Destin and our mission, vision, values, and goals and represents the city in a professional, dignified manner at all times both in actions and appearance.
• Contributes to the development and accomplishment of home team work-plans.
• Demonstrate competent knowledge of all applicable policies, codes, ordinances, regulations, and statutes.
• Demonstrate competent knowledge of all divisional Key Functions and their associated processes.
• Drives truck and controls movement of lifting apparatus.
• Positions forks, boom, lifting buckets, or other lifting device under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, boxes, products, or materials or hook-up truck trailer hitches to trailer, and transports load to designated area.
• Checks all invoices for city compliance (i.e., employee signature, no tax added, etc).
• Assists with minor repairs on equipment including lubricating trucks, recharging batteries, filling fuel tanks, replacing liquefied gas, changing oil.
• Cuts lawns and trims/edges around sidewalks, flowerbeds, walls, and fences.
• Prunes shrubs and trees to include removal if necessary to shape and improve growth or removes damaged leaves, branches, or twigs.
• Rakes and bags leaves, cleans grounds and removes litter and debris.
• Shovels sand and dirt from walks and driveways; makes minor concrete and improvements to walks and curbs; and asphalt repairs and improvements on roadways.
• Plants grass, flowers, trees, and shrubs and waters plants and lawns.
• Paints fences, outbuildings, bathrooms, and other city owned property and buildings (interior and exterior).
• Repairs fences, gates, walls, floors, and roofs.
• Research catalogues for materials and equipment.
• Performs minor carpentry and masonry projects and repairs to City owned facilities, such as repair gutters, shutters, handrails, windows, and doors,
• Cleans out ditches, culverts, and removes sand from boat launching areas in order to provide adequate depth.
• Observes and reports hazardous conditions such as missing traffic signals or signs, and street markings that need to be repainted.
• Cleans facilities at parks, recreation sites and all city owned and leased facilities.
• Performs minor road maintenance.
• Sharpens tools such as weed cutters, edging tools, and shears.
• Makes minor repairs on equipment such as lawn mower, spreader, and miscellaneous lawn care tools and equipment.
• Inspects and makes minor repairs and adjustments to heating and cooling systems; plumbing and electrical systems and appliances; and sprinkler systems.
• Performs maintenance activities on utility system to provide continuous supply of heat, steam, electric power, gas, or air required for facility operations.
• Recommends measures to improve operations and conditions of machines and equipment.
• Informs supervisor of tools, equipment and supplies required for maintenance operations.
• Remains “on call” duty status on a 24-hour basis, 7 days per week to respond to Public Services related issues.
• Demonstrates commitment to Team Destin and our mission, vision, values and goals and represents the city in a professional, dignified manner at all times both in actions and appearance.
• Contributes to the development and accomplishment of home team work-plans.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Knowledge of general construction blueprints, minor road repair, water drainage systems, building maintenance, excavation, and lawn maintenance.
• Skill in the use small office equipment, including copy machines or multi-line telephone systems.
• Skill in using computers for data entry.
• Ability to communicate and organize effectively.
• Ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable functional, technical, structural, compositional, or identifiable characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.
• Ability to communicate with people to convey or exchange professional information.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedural manuals.
• Ability to produce reports with proper format, punctuation, spelling, and grammar, using all parts of
  
  

speech.

• Ability to define problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram and schedule form.
• Ability to utilize mathematical formulas; add and subtract, multiply and divide totals; determine percentages; and determine time and weight and interpret same as may be appropriate.
• Ability to inspect items for proper length, width, and shape.
• Ability to differentiate colors and shades of color.
• Ability to interact with people (staff, supervisors, general public and elected officials) beyond giving and receiving instructions to include tactfully mediating conflicts and achieving positive results.
• Ability to perform under maximum stress when confronted with short deadlines, heavy workloads, conflicting interests, and high customer demand.
  
  

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: Supervision of other city employees is not required of this position.

Licenses or Certifications: Valid Florida CDL Class “A” driver’s license, CPR certification, FDOT Flagger certification, and SCUBA certification desired

Miscellaneous Information

Background check required.