The City of Johnson City Tennessee is accepting online applications for a Facilities Maintenance Technician I. The employee performs intermediate skilled and semiskilled work in the maintenance, repair and alteration of municipal facilities; does related work as required. The work of this class involves responsibility for performing a variety of skilled and semiskilled tasks in maintaining, repairing, altering and remodeling buildings and public facilities. Ordinarily employees in this class are required to perform at the journeyman level in only one trade, but work assignments are so varied that employees must exercise reasonable facility in several such trades. Assignments are received in the form of oral or written work orders and may be accompanied by sketches, penciled layout or blueprints. The work is performed according to general or specific instructions of a supervisor who inspects work while in progress and upon completion. The employee may supervise a small group of semiskilled or unskilled workers.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: General knowledge of the methods, practices, tools and materials used in mechanical, construction or building maintenance and repair work; general knowledge of occupational hazards and necessary safety precautions applicable to building and mechanical maintenance work; ability to interpret and work from sketches and penciled layouts; ability to supervise a small group of semiskilled or unskilled subordinates when necessary; skill in the use and care of tools and equipment necessary to perform various building maintenance and repair tasks, including journeyman level skill in at least one trade, and reasonable facility in several related trades.
Acceptable Experience and Training: High school graduate or GED and considerable experience in building, construction or mechanical maintenance and repair work in various trades, one of which shall have been at the journeyman level; or any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities. Pre-employment physical, drug screening and background check required.
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Johnson City is a goal-oriented, high-energy, family-centered city with diverse economic components. Education, business, industry, civic and community organizations, and local government pull together to keep us moving forward. We have a diverse economy led by healthcare, education and an entrepreneurial spirit that lives on from our City’s founder, Henry Johnson.
We hold our natural beauty and resources in highest regard and lead the state of Tennessee in green initiatives. We received the Tennessee Municipal League’s first-ever Green City Leadership award for our environmental efforts.
This community is a thriving one because our 60,000+ residents are actively engaged. Neighborhood action committees, problem-solving task forces, public boards and committees, and outreach programs are creating a resilient, more cohesive community and strengthening government in its role of protecting and serving citizens.
