Building Maintenance Worker/maintenance Worker Family
Career series with 1 positions across 1 levels
Building Maintenance Worker/Maintenance Worker 1 Grounds is a competitive state or local title, the kind you test for: the exam result, not a hiring manager's pick, decides where you land in line.
Building Maintenance Worker/Maintenance Worker is a single-title classification family: Building Maintenance Worker/Maintenance Worker 1 Grounds is the only position in it. Building Maintenance Worker/Maintenance Worker commonly advances into Food Service Worker (10 - and Laboratory Service Worker.
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Positions in This Family
What the Building Maintenance Worker/Maintenance Worker family covers
In New Jersey's classification plan, Building Maintenance Worker/Maintenance Worker stands alone. The family holds one title code rather than a graded series. Its titles are common jurisdiction, meaning the same classification is used at the state level and by local civil service employers alike.
Skilled and semi-skilled labor is the part of the classification plan that never moved to a degree. Qualification rests on demonstrated ability, and for a great many of these titles the operative credential is a valid New Jersey driver's license of the right class rather than a diploma. The work is also the most physically specific in the plan, which is why the specifications read as lists of tasks and equipment instead of the general responsibility language used elsewhere. Because public works, water and sewer utilities, parks and school plants each run their own yards, near-identical jobs end up as separate title codes in separate places.
Two jobs in one title
Building Maintenance Worker/Maintenance Worker is a consolidated title: one position carrying the duties of Building Maintenance Worker and Maintenance Worker at once, held by a single employee expected to do both. They exist because a borough or authority with a single crew cannot justify a separate post per function, so the combined duties get their own classification.
Separately, Maintenance Worker is its own family of 7 title codes across 3 levels. This consolidation holds 1 code, which is the usual pattern, since a consolidated title is normally created for the one jurisdiction that asked for it. Read the component specifications alongside this one, because the requirements of both halves apply.
What each title does
The published specification opens with this definition of the work.
- Building Maintenance Worker/Maintenance Worker 1 Grounds: Under direction of a supervisory official, performs varied simple and moderately…
What it takes to qualify
None of the specifications in this family names a degree requirement, which places these titles among the New Jersey positions open to applicants without formal higher education. On how the jobs are filled: 1 is competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
How the pay is set
No state salary schedule applies here, because these are local titles. Pay is set by each adopting county, municipality or authority under its own ordinance or negotiated agreement, so two employers using the same title code can pay very differently. How local civil service pay works.
Where these jobs exist
These are common jurisdiction titles, which is the most flexible position to be in as an applicant: the same classification is used by state departments and by local civil service employers, so an eligible list built in one place still describes work you can do in the other. What common jurisdiction means.
Related titles elsewhere in the plan
These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Building Maintenance Worker/Maintenance Worker, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.
- Building Service Worker / Maintenance Worker 1 Grounds (local jurisdiction) — in the Building Service Worker / Maintenance Worker family
- Building Maintenance Worker ($38,641 to $55,448, state jurisdiction)
- Senior Building Maintenance Worker (local jurisdiction)
- Building Maintenance Worker/Messenger (local jurisdiction)
- Building Maintenance Worker All Jurisdictions (local jurisdiction)
- Building Maintenance Worker All Jurisdictions ($34,687 to $49,504, both state and local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Building Maintenance Worker/Maintenance Worker jobs
How many separate Building Maintenance Worker/Maintenance Worker classifications does New Jersey have?
The Building Maintenance Worker/Maintenance Worker family holds 1 title code. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
How much is a Building Maintenance Worker/Maintenance Worker paid?
No state salary schedule figure is published for the titles in this family, which is normal for local classifications. Local civil service employers set their own pay by ordinance or negotiated agreement, so the rate depends on which county, municipality or authority is hiring.
Is there a civil service test for Building Maintenance Worker/Maintenance Worker?
Yes for most of the family. 1 of the 1 title are in the competitive division, which means appointment comes from an eligible list built by an open competitive or promotional examination.
What are the requirements to become a Building Maintenance Worker/Maintenance Worker?
No degree requirement is parsed from the specifications in this family, which puts these titles among the New Jersey civil service jobs reachable without formal higher education.