Facilities Maintenance Professional, Union Grove Veterans Home - Reannouncement

Position Summary

Do you have strong mechanical, maintenance, and customer service skills? This may be the job for you!

Under general supervision of the Buildings/Grounds Supervisor, the Facilities Maintenance Specialist-Advanced performs complex skilled and semi-skilled tasks at WVHUG. The position inspects, installs, adjusts, maintains, and repairs mechanical custodial, office, and medical care systems and controls, and buildings/grounds equipment and structures.

The incumbent provides winter grounds maintenance, and leads, trains, and coordinates the work of other Facilities Maintenance staff or contractors. In addition, the position performs administrative tasks associated with maintenance activities, and ensures work is performed in accordance with regulations, guidelines, and standards.

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Salary Information

Starting wage is $22.78 per hour, plus an attractive employee benefits package. Additional compensation for nights, weekends, holidays, and overtime.

This position is in pay schedule-range 03-13. For current State employees, pay on hire will be set following the Wisconsin Compensation Plan.

This position is not represented by a bargaining unit.

Job Details

Job duties require the ability to move, remove, and install objects, occasionally exerting over 100 pounds of force; climb and work on ladders and/or scaffolding; work with loud, shaking and/or vibrating equipment; and adjust or increase work hours as needed to meet operational needs.

Due to the nature of the position, WDVA will conduct a criminal background check prior to an offer of employment.

Employment in this position is contingent upon passing a pre-employment tuberculosis (TB) skin test.

Employees at this healthcare facility are required to report their COVID-19 vaccination status, whether vaccinated or not, and provide supporting documentation if vaccinated. Newly hired employees will be required to submit this information by their third day of employment.

A 12-month probationary period may be required.

Qualifications

In their application materials, minimally qualified applicants will provide details about their experience:

• Performing maintenance on mechanical and electrical systems, components, and equipment (e.g., lighting, power, communications, security, using blueprints/schematics, completing documentation, portable air conditioners or heaters, etc.); and

• Troubleshooting, maintaining, and repairing miscellaneous commercial equipment (e.g., food preparation and disposal machinery, laundry machinery, power floor care systems, power tools, etc.)

Well-qualified applicants will also provide details about their experience:

• Performing maintenance duties in a healthcare or commercial setting, especially one that is similar to WVHK

Additional required and preferred qualifications that will be addressed at a later stage in the selection process are:

• Experience performing maintenance on HVAC and refrigeration systems, components, and related auxiliary equipment; and

• Experience completing, recording, and submitting paper and electronic requisition forms; and/or

• Experience repairing, troubleshooting, and installing pneumatic, electrical, and related systems and components; and/or

• Experience using computers and technology to complete tasks

How To Apply

To be eligible for consideration for a position, complete the online application process. For instructions, refer to the following link:

Applying to State Service. You will be required to attach a resume. Attaching a letter of qualifications is strongly recommended. To ease the application process, upload your documents to WiscJobs prior to attaching them.

Your resume and letter are important application materials and are used to figure out if your experience fits the job. For instructions on writing and what to include in your materials, click here.

NOTE: In the WiscJobs system that was implemented in April 2021, applicants are not able to update or change their application materials after they are submitted. Make certain that your resume and documentation are how you want them to be before you finalize the application.

After the application deadline, resumes and letters will be evaluated by one or more job experts and the most-qualified applicants will be invited to participate in the next step of the selection process. Failure to provide all materials will result in an incomplete application, which will not be considered.

If you are qualified for the next step, you will be contacted via email. Make certain that your email address in your WiscJobs account is correct and check your messages regularly.

Current permanent, classified State employees, who are eligible for transfer or voluntary demotion into a position assigned to pay schedule-pay range 03-13, should complete the online application process.

Veterans with a 30% or greater service-related disability rating are eligible for consideration for non-competitive appointment to a permanent position in classified civil service under s. 230.275, WI Stats. If you meet the eligibility criteria, please send a letter of qualifications, resume, DD-214 clearly showing an honorable discharge, and documentation of your service-connected disability rating dated within 12 months, to the Human Resources contact listed in this announcement. Current state employees are not eligible for this consideration.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States (i.e., a citizen or national of the U.S., a lawful permanent resident, or an alien authorized to work in the U.S. without WDVA sponsorship) at the time of application.

Questions can be directed to J Lea Roberts at jlea.roberts@wisconsin.gov or 608-266-3344.

Deadline to Apply

Applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on March 18, 2024.