Building Service Worker / Maintenance Worker Family
Career series with 1 positions across 1 levels
There is no civil service exam for Building Service Worker / Maintenance Worker 1 Grounds. As a non-competitive local-government title, it is filled on the strength of meeting the listed qualifications.
Building Service Worker / Maintenance Worker is a single-title classification family: Building Service Worker / Maintenance Worker 1 Grounds is the only position in it. Building Service Worker / Maintenance Worker commonly advances into Food Service Worker (10 - and Laboratory Service Worker.
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What the Building Service Worker / Maintenance Worker family covers
In New Jersey's classification plan, Building Service Worker / Maintenance Worker stands alone. The family holds one title code rather than a graded series. Every title in it is a local title, used by the counties, municipalities, authorities and boards that have adopted civil service under Title 11A rather than by state departments.
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 Service Worker / Maintenance Worker is a consolidated title: one position carrying the duties of Building Service 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 Service Worker / Maintenance Worker 1 Grounds: Under direction performs varied simple and routine tasks involved in the cleaning of buildings; does other…
Requirements across the family
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 non-competitive, appointed on proof of the stated qualifications rather than by 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
Nothing in this family is hired by a state department. These are local codes, which means the employer is a county, municipality, authority, library, fire district or school district that chose to come under Title 11A. Roughly a quarter of New Jersey's municipalities did. In the rest, the same job exists but the hiring is done outside the civil service system entirely, so the title code will never appear in a posting. Check a specific employer before you plan around one of these titles, or read how local civil service works.
Related titles elsewhere in the plan
Other classifications built on the same terms as Building Service Worker / Maintenance Worker. Worth checking if this family has no current opening.
- 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)
- Building Maintenance Worker Low Pressure License (local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Building Service Worker / Maintenance Worker jobs
How many separate Building Service Worker / Maintenance Worker classifications does New Jersey have?
The Building Service 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 Service 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 Service Worker / Maintenance Worker?
Not for the non-competitive titles in this family, of which there are 1. A non-competitive appointment is made on proof that you meet the stated requirements, without a competitive examination, though the position is still in the classified service with its own protections.
What are the requirements to become a Building Service 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.