ASSISTANT MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR

Code: 00604 Local Competitive

Official job specification

The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator. Source: the official specification page at NJ CSC.

Definition

Assists the Maintenance Supervisor in coordinating activities of workers engaged in maintaining and repairing the physical structure of buildings and utility systems and in maintaining buildings and grounds in a clean/orderly condition; does other related duties.

Examples of work

• Oversees workers engaged in painting and performing structural repairs to masonry, woodwork, and furnishings of buildings and similar structures.
• Oversees workers engaged in maintaining and repairing building utility systems such as electrical wiring and controls, heating, cooling, ventilating, and steam generating systems.
• Oversees workers engaged in maintaining and repairing plumbing systems.
• Oversees workers engaged in mowing lawns, trimming, raking, and burning leaves and refuse, and cleaning building interiors.
• May supervise workers engaged in installing, servicing, and repairing mechanical equipment.
• Participates in the planning and supervision of maintenance and repair programs.
• Assigns workers to specific tasks.
• Reviews work progress.
• Reviews completed work for conformance to blueprints, specifications, and standards.
• Oversees the maintenance, repair, and servicing of the central heating plant, mechanical equipment, gas, electric, plumbing, and/or sewage lines, pipes, and fixtures, kitchen ranges, refrigerators, and other equipment or accessories.
• Recommends improvements, alterations, and repairs and prepares plans, detailed drawings, and work estimates.
• Maintains records on materials, supplies, equipment, time, nature and type of work performed.
• Provides recommendations for improvements, additions, and reassignments for employment and dismissal of employees and for other actions pertaining to efficient/economical operation, care, maintenance, and repair of buildings, equipment, and/or grounds.
• Requisitions, receives, accounts for, stores, and issues tools, equipment, materials, and supplies.
• Prepares and checks specifications for bids, supplies, and equipment.
• Provides assignments and instruction to maintenance workers, laborers, and other employees in the general operation, maintenance, cleaning, and repair of buildings.
• Performs the more difficult general tasks.
• Prepares reports.
• Establishes and maintains records and files.
• Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.

Experience

Four (4) years of experience in work involving the construction or repair and maintenance of buildings and grounds, two (2) years of which shall have been in a supervisory capacity.

Knowledge, skills and abilities

• Knowledge of the tools, materials and methods used in the repair and maintenance of buildings, grounds and related structures.
• Knowledge of the methods used to evaluate completed maintenance and repair work.
• Knowledge of methods used to obtain, store, safeguard, distribute, equipment, materials, and supplies.
• Ability to requisition, store, issue and safeguard equipment, materials and supplies.
• Ability to identify and analyze maintenance and repair problems.
• Ability to oversee the maintenance, repair and servicing of buildings and equipment.
• Ability to provide assignments and instructions to staff and supervise their work.
• Ability to evaluate completed maintenance and repair assignments.
• Ability to maintain records.
• Ability to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
• Ability to read, write, speak, understand, and communicate in English sufficiently to perform duties of this position. American Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of communication.
• Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.

Note

The examples of work for this title are for illustrative purposes only. A particular position using this title may not perform all duties listed in this job specification. Conversely, all duties performed on the job may not be listed.

Applicants may be required to possess a valid license as an Operating Engineer of the appropriate grade, issued by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs.

Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform essential duties of the position.