General Maintenance Technician II - 61144522

Job Responsibilities

Are you an experienced professional looking for new opportunities to further your career? The SC Department of Veterans' Affairs is seeking a hardworking and dependable candidate just like you to apply! This position will offer great benefits with the state, including 15 days of annual and sick leave per year or more depending on applicable state service.

The General Maintenance Technician II performs and monitors fellow crew members in a variety of tasks such as safely operating all types of equipment utilized in cemetery operations including but not limited to operating utility vehicles, riding lawn mowers,

tractors, small tractors, spreaders, forklifts, power pressure washers, augers, excavators. Digging and squaring graves using pneumatic equipment; assists in lifting and placing caskets on lowering devises; cleaning headstones using sprayer and hand brush; aligning headstones; loading and unloading materials; clearing cemetery grounds of debris using power trimmers, chainsaws, axes, shovels, rakes, blowers, vacuums, etc.; weeding, mulching, and applying fertilizer; pruning shrubs and low level dead branches; removing snow and ice; and cleaning service and administrative areas.

Responsibilities of the position title:

• Burial operations are conducted within the standards set forth by the NCA Operational Standards and Measures. As a member of a 2-to-3-person team, will ensure the grave-site Layout Plan is followed, inspects, verifies gravesite location. Works as a team to prepare gravesites for daily interments. Follows instructions from the primary excavator operator and works as the alternate excavator operation. Verifies and signs Decedent chain of Custody. As a new worker, will be trained in the proper performance of interments.

• Headstones, grave markers and niche cover Operations:

• Upon delivery inspects and stores headstone and niche covers

• Installs headstone and niche covers

• Headstones and niche covers are visible and legible

• Headstones and niche covers do not show evidence of debris or objectionable accumulations

Equipment and Tools:

• Cemetery equipment and vehicles present a clean and neat appearance

• Equipment preventative maintenance: before, during, and after inspections

• Tools maintenance

Facilities Maintenance:

• Office and Restroom clean and functional

• Maintenance pad is clean and orderly

• Break room and locker room

Grounds Maintenance:

• Understands and follows Grounds Maintenance Plan

• Visually prominent areas: Turf

• Trees and Shrubs

• Planting beds

Safety:

• Safety hazards

• Open graves

• Personal protective equipment

• Safety training

Other duties as assigned.

Minimum and Additional Requirements

Minimum Requirements:

• Knowledge of landscaping and grounds maintenance, and experience in the safe operation and maintenance of lawn and garden equipment.

• The ability to follow instructions and effectively communicate orally and in writing with fellow workers and supervisor(s).

• Able to assign and monitor task completion of fellow Maintenance Technician II personnel assigned to their duty area (ability to dual verify gravesites, headstone installations and temporary markers).

Applicants indicating college credit or degree(s) on the application will be required to bring a copy of college transcript to the interview. A copy of the transcript may also be uploaded as an attachment to the application, if required by the hiring department or if desired by the applicant. Please note that some areas of the Agency may require an official, certified copy of the transcript prior to hiring or within a specific timeframe required by that area, after hiring. Failure to produce an official, certified transcript may result in not being hired or termination.

Additional Requirements:

• Position may require employee to work evenings and weekends.

• Position requires routine driver duties.

• Position requires frequent stooping and/or bending.

• Position requires frequent lifting: 60 lbs.

• Position may be required to report to work during emergency situations.

• Working environment will involve working in all types of weather associated with the cemetery location.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED.

• Mechanical experience and/or excavator experience.

• Knowledge of how to properly carry out grounds-keeping, mechanical maintenance, housekeeping, and custodial duties.

• Knowledge of safety practices relevant to the area of employment.

• Skill in safely operating mechanical equipment (such as mini excavators, dumpers, and industrial trucks) and hand tools related to those used in landscaping gardening, opening and closing grave sites, custodial cleaning supplies and equipment.

• Ability to read and understand a measuring tape/ruler.

• Must have a firm grasp of the English language with regards to reading, writing, and spell checking.

• Ability to follow instruction and work with others.

• Ability to keep accurate written records and communicate clearly with fellow employees and supervisors.

Additional Comments

Additional Comments:

The SC Department of Veterans' Affairs is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, including, but not limited, to lactation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.

Supplemental questions are considered part of your official application. Any misrepresentation will result in your disqualification from employment. Please complete the state application to include all current and previous work history and education. A resume will not be accepted nor reviewed to determine if an applicant has met the qualifications for the position.

The SC Department of Veterans' Affairs offers an exceptional benefits package for full time (FTE) employees:

• Health, dental, vision, long-term disability, and life insurance for employees, spouse, and children. Click here for additional information.

• 15 days annual (vacation) leave per year

• 15 days sick leave per year

• 13 paid holidays

• Paid Parental Leave

• S.C. Deferred Compensation Program available (S.C. Deferred Compensation)

• Retirement benefit choices *

• State Retirement Plan (SCRS)

• State Optional Retirement Program (State ORP)

• Enrollment in one of the listed plans is required for all FTE employees; please refer to the contribution section of hyperlinked retirement sites for the current contribution rate of gross pay.