Generic Job Description
Maintenance Assistant
Grade B
Representative Duties:
- Inspects and maintains work area and surrounding grounds. Performs light cleaning, snow removal, painting and repairs.
- Operates, maintains, and repairs equipment, tools and vehicles.
- Ensures security of facility and grounds.
- Receives, stores, and issues equipment, material, merchandise, tools, and supplies. May order materials and supplies.
- Drives vehicles for pick-up and delivery services.
- Records and logs information.
- Performs additional functions incidental to maintenance activities.
Family: Service
Job Code: 659 Date: 2/89
The job duties listed above are representative and characteristic of the duties required and the level of the work performed in the job title. The duties will vary from incumbent to incumbent in the job title.
Yale University Clerical and Technical Job Description
Job: 659 Maintenance Assistant Grade B
Required Knowledge:
- General knowledge, high school level; detailed but narrow knowledge. Working knowledge of a craft or trade.
- Limited acquaintance with University organizational policies and procedures.
Required Skills:
- Understands non-routine notes, written instructions, general policy statements. Writes short, informal notes, fills out simple forms.
- Occasional use of more complex machines such as word processors or personal computers. .
Office and Administrative Skills:
- Schedules and coordinates appointments.
- Screens and refers callers and visitors to the appropriate individual.
Experience, Education and Formal Training:
- Two years of related work experience and a high school level education, or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
Complexity and Organization:
- Limited variety of job tasks requiring coordinating steps/procedures.
- Occasionally coordinates or organizes the work of others.
Interpersonal Relations:
- Ongoing involvement outside immediate unit. Offers or obtains basic information or provides assistance on general matters.
- Understands and conveys more complex messages and instructions and takes action accordingly.
Supervisory Guidelines:
- Work is subject to general review on an occasional basis. Supervisor and incumbent plan, assign and schedule work jointly.
- Instruction provided only in new situations, methods and procedures that are not clearly related to existing tasks and duties.
Independent Judgment:
- Established procedures/policies govern most work situations. Regular exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
- Problems solved by using established procedures.
Leadership Responsibility:
- Occasionally provides general orientation to routine procedures/policies.
- Sometimes distributes and monitors work.
Impact and Consequence of Error:
- Work affects only immediate work unit, but rarely outside the University.
- Errors are not difficult to recognize and correct and only affect own work.
Working Conditions:
- Ongoing possibility of safety risks. Occasional conflicting demands, time pressure, deadlines or emergencies. Some sustained concentration.
- Considerable physical effort or a high degree of fine finger or hand dexterity.
Example 1Maintenance Assistant (659)
Salary: B
General Purpose:
Perform maintenance-related duties in thirteen animal housing units.Essential Duties of Position:
1. Inspect, maintain and repair animal facility buildings and related departmental equipment. Perform light cleaning, painting and repairs.
2. Operate, maintain and repair equipment, tools and vehicles.
3. Receive, store and issue equipment, material, merchandise, tools and supplies. May order and pick up materials and supplies.
4. Ensure security of facilities and grounds.
5. Perform additional functions incidental to maintenance activities.Experience and Training:
1. Two years of related work experience and a high school level education or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
2. Preferred: two years of experience working in maintenance/construction/mechanical field or vocational education in mechanical/construction or a combination of experience and education.Skills and Abilities
1. Leadership skills.
2. Attention to detail and organizational skills.
3. Ability to work independently with time management and problem solving skills.
4. Safe working habits.
5. Written communication skills.
6. Ability to operate various power and hand tools.
7. Must be able to lift 75 lbs. of weight.
8. Manual dexterity.
9. Employment is contingent upon the candidate's ability to pass a pre-employment physical.
10. Willingness to work overtime hours.
11. Preferred: sensitivity and appreciation of animals.
