"General Maintenance Worker, USC Housing"

USC Auxiliary Services is seeking candidates for General Maintenance Worker positions to join the team.

The Opportunity: The General Maintenance Worker will monitor facilities and ensure high standards of excellence. Responsibilities include examining and repairing facilities, communicating with management and vendors, and training other workers, with a focus on customer service.

The Accountabilities:

• Provides customer service to students, faculty, staff, and external customers.
• Performs preventative maintenance on appliances like air conditioners, heaters, refrigerators, stoves, ovens, and dishwashers.
• Troubleshoots and repairs or replaces appliance parts and commercial kitchen equipment.
• Maintains appliance part inventory.
• Builds interior walls, fabricates cabinets, drawers, and screens, and assembles furniture.
• Repairs or replaces closet doors, drawers, non-fire rated doors, door locks, closers, hinges, tiles, bathroom fixtures, etc.
• Installs safety restraints on cabinets and furniture, patches and stretches carpet, replaces broken windows and ceiling tiles, and performs caulking.
• Repairs or replaces light bulbs, ballasts, switches, plugs, light fixtures, etc., and maintains room wiring systems and emergency exit signs.
• Prepares walls for painting, patches holes, replaces drywall, paints, stains, and refinishes woodwork.
• Repairs or replaces various plumbing fixtures and hardware, such as faucets, shower fixtures, water fountains, garbage disposals, sinks, and toilets.
• Unclogs drains and performs minor repairs on water heaters.
• Performs light welding, light vehicle maintenance, and utility work like installing or removing posts and signs.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

The Qualifiers:

• Education: Specialized or technical training.
• Experience: 6-12 months.
• Expertise: Ability to communicate effectively in English; knowledge of thermodynamic laws, refrigerator cycles, electricity principles, test/detection instruments, hand/power tools, AC/DC currents, wood finishing, wiring, painting, construction, and plumbing; presents professionally; valid CA driver's license required.

What We Prefer:

• Specialized or technical training.
• 2-3 years of experience in appliance repair, plumbing, HVAC, outlet repair, and/or electrical.
• HVAC certification.
• Experience supporting a hospitality/restaurant/retail department.
• Experience troubleshooting and performing basic repairs (e.g., carpentry) and painting maintenance.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment independently and train others.

The Trojan Family Rewards: Employees enjoy benefits and programs supporting work-life balance. Visit https://employees.usc.edu/benefits-perks/ for more information.

The hourly rate for this position is $25.50. Factors considered include scope, experience, education, skills, internal peer alignment, applicable laws, and market conditions.