Senior Tradesworker
Summary
The City of Asheville is dedicated to providing quality service for the residents and visitors of our beautiful city, nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. Asheville, NC is a thriving mountain city that has a culture enriched in diversity.
The City of Asheville values and respects a diverse community, workforce and ideas, and is committed to promoting an equitable, fair, and just employment environment. Our organization seeks to create and provide access and opportunities to employees, residents and visitors to fulfill their potential through inclusive engagement practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic information or veteran status.
Do you have what it takes to be a Senior Tradesworker for the City of Asheville? Come join the City of Asheville team! The purpose of this position is to maintain and repair City facilities by performing routine and special tasks to ensure the safety and well being of our building occupants. The Sr. Tradesworker troubleshoots and repairs all areas of the building including the mechanical, electrical, plumbing, carpentry, and HVAC systems.
This position will remain open until it is filled, with application review beginning on Monday, July 15, 2019.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
In this role, the Senior Tradesworker will be responsible for:
- Installing, performing preventative maintenance and troubleshooting all HVAC, plumbing and electrical systems.
- Evaluating and researching technical data to determine the cause and necessity of repair or replacement of various systems and devices.
- Interpreting HVAC, plumbing and electrical diagrams.
- Testing and tracing circuits and wiring.
- Using various HVAC software programs to evaluate, monitor and control mechanical systems.
- Providing preventive maintenance of emergency generators. Routinely starting and visually checking back-up generators to ensure readiness in the event of an emergency.
- Providing preventive maintenance of emergency generators. Routinely starting and visually checking back-up generators to ensure readiness in the event of an emergency.
- Performs maintenance of HVAC systems including changing filters,cleaning air handlers,vav boxes, fan coil units,coils etc.
- Answering and evaluating customer and employee complaints to determine necessary repairs or services needed to correct the situation. Performing customer relations duties by handling issues promptly and courteously.
- Operating and using computers for daily performance of skilled trade duties.
- Answering and evaluating customer and employee complaints to determine necessary repairs or services needed to correct the situation. Performing customer relations duties by handling issues promptly and courteously.
- Operating trucks, construction equipment, power tools and various maintenance devices.
- Processing work orders and purchasing parts and materials.
- Performing locksmith duties.
- Training subordinates in skills to assist and complete various installations and repairs.
Supplemental Functions:
- This position may perform other similar duties as required.
Education/Experience:
- High school diploma or equivalent with three (3) to five (5) years of related building repair and maintenance experience, working on large scale, complex projects; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job.
Licensing and Certifications:
- Valid North Carolina Driver's License.
Preferred Requirements:
- NC State Contractor's license is preferred.
- NC State licensure in one or more of the trades: electrical, plumbing, HVAC or general contracting.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Working Conditions
Knowledge:
The successful candidate will have a comprehensive understanding of the field and application of advanced principles, techniques and theory.
Skills:
The applicant should possess:
- The ability to read and understand basic workplace data, such as simple forms, tables, graphs, schedules, etc.
- The ability to conduct research of existing, internal policies and procedures
- The ability to read and understand basic workplace data, such as simple forms, tables, graphs, schedules, etc.
- The ability to conduct advanced research on organizational policies and procedures, best practices and innovative techniques.
- The ability to compile data into a formal report or recommendation shared with others and often verbally presented.
- The ability to think creatively in all areas for the purpose of increasing efficiency and effectiveness.
- The ability to communicate effectively in spoken and written form.
- The ability to research program documents and narrative materials, and develop reports from information gathered.
- The ability to analyze situations to pinpoint problems and assist with solving problems or identifying sources of obstacles.
- The ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships as required by work assignments.
- The ability to work independently with limited supervision.
- The ability to analyze and interpret policy and procedural guidelines and to apply this understanding to tasks.
- The ability to bring resources together to resolve a problem or provide a solution.