Facilities Maintenance Assistant

Job Details

Facilities Maintenance Assistant

R0000002545

Geiger Facilities Building

Position Type: Full time

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Categories: Staff Non-exempt

Job Summary:

Bucknell University is seeking two Facilities Maintenance Assistants. The successful candidates in these positions will perform general labor, custodial, groundskeeping and basic trades duties to support the Trades Technician, Groundskeeper, and custodial staff. Duties include: minor building maintenance, construction support, setups/teardowns for events on campus, moving furniture on campus, and the operation of lawn and snow removal equipment.

What you will do:

• Assists the Trades Technicians with basic tasks such as replacing standard plumbing parts, repairing wall damage, hanging bulletin boards and signage, painting drywall, replacing ceiling tiles, and repairing broken windows.
• Provides general labor including dismantling, moving, and reassembling furniture, and moving construction supplies and equipment between work sites.
• Performs general groundskeeping work on campus grounds such as mowing grass, trimming trees and shrubs, weeding, preparing seed beds, mulching, leaf removal, and shoveling snow.
• Assists Custodians including spot cleaning, mopping, dusting, vacuuming, scrubbing, and stripping and waxing floors.
• Ability to use small tools and repair small equipment

What you will bring:

Required

• High school diploma or GED
• Up to 1 year of physical labor or maintenance experience
• Valid Driver's License

Preferred, But Not Required

• 2 years of physical labor or maintenance experience