Exudes a positive customer service focus.

Advocates building organizational culture through aligning decisions with core values including: integrity, honesty, respect, diversity, innovation, accountability and communication.

Operates, inspects, tests, diagnoses, and performs repair service and preventative maintenance on air conditioning, refrigeration and specialized equipment, chillers, cooling towers, pneumatic controls, compressors, pumps, minor electrical, and plumbing systems. 

Adjusts functional parts of devices or control instruments.

Maintains preventative maintenance records on air conditioning, refrigeration and specialized equipment, chillers, cooling towers, pneumatic controls, compressors, pumps, minor electrical, and plumbing systems. 

Initiates purchase of materials, parts, and tools.

Reads blueprints and schematic drawings to determine location, size, capacity, and type of components needed to maintain equipment.

Plans and lays out work using diagrams, drawings, blueprints, or operations & maintenance (O&M) manuals.

Mentors and trains lower-level technicians.

Performs a variety of tasks; exercises a certain degree of creativity within the scope of the position. 

Participates in a 24/7 on-call rotation. 

Drives a County and/or personal vehicle to perform required duties. 

Performs the duties listed, as well as those assigned, with professionalism and a sense of urgency.

NOTE: These examples are intended only as illustrations of the various kinds of work performed in positions allocated to this class. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Knowledge of methods, materials, tools and practices for one or more of the following areas: air conditioning/heating systems, carpentry, electrical and painting. 

Knowledge of occupational hazards and safety precautions related to electrical and HVAC and/or Chiller systems, plumbing, carpentry and general maintenance. 

Skill in the use of tools, materials and equipment used in general maintenance. 

Ability to work from sketches, plans, blueprints and schematics. 

Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions. 

Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing. 

Ability to make estimates of time and materials and prepare records of same. 

Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with co-workers and the public. 

Ability to perform duties under adverse conditions.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; talk or hear; use hands to finger, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit, and climb or balance. 

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds; frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to wet, humid conditions (non-weather); work in high, precarious places; outdoor weather conditions; extreme heat (non-weather), and risk of electrical shock. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold (non-weather); work with explosives, and vibration.

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. 

May work weekends and/or nights in support of mission objectives.