Building Maintenance Mechanic

Position: Building Maintenance Mechanic I
Salary: $25.32 - $32.07 Hourly
Location : Bemidji, MN
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number:
Department: Facilities Management
Division: Building Maintenance
Opening Date: 03/26/2025
Closing Date: 4/9/2025 4:30 PM Central

The Position

POSITION WILL BE OPEN UNTIL FILLED. APPLICATIONS WILL BE REVIEWED EVERY TWO WEEKS.

Beltrami County is creating an eligibility list for a full-time, benefited Building Maintenance Mechanic I. Responsibilities include building maintenance to maintain a clean, comfortable and safe working environment for occupants. The successful candidate will be assigned to work in all county buildings as needed. Shift times will be as follows: Tuesday - Friday 6 am to 2:30 pm and Saturday 8 am to 4:30 pm

Performs difficult skilled trades work in the maintenance and repair of electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and related equipment, and related work as apparent or assigned. Work is performed under the moderate supervision of the Facility & Safety Director.

Hiring salary range is $25.32 to $27.67 per hour with a full range of $25.32 to $32.07 per hour.
Minimum Qualifications

Education and Experience

Minimum Requirements are:

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Three years or more of experience in facility maintenance, plumbing, heating and air conditioning, electronics, carpentry, electrical, or a related field.
• Special Engineer's Boiler's License or ability to obtain one within six months of hire.
• Valid MN driver's license.

Essential Functions & Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions

• Repairs and maintains County buildings, grounds, and equipment.
• Assists MMII to maintain HVAC equipment such as furnaces, boilers, chilled water systems, air conditioning systems.
• Uses work order and purchase order service systems related to maintenance work.
• Inspects and maintains plumbing and electrical equipment and systems.
• Assists specialized trades contractors when performing building and systems maintenance and repair work.
• Performs air quality testing.
• Performs snow removal and grounds cleanup duties.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
General knowledge of practices, tools, terminology, and safety precautions related to building maintenance and trades activities; general knowledge of specialized work order and trade-specific computer systems; general knowledge of use and repair of machinery, equipment, and tools required for building maintenance activities; general knowledge of the hazards and safety precautions; ability to work from blueprints, drawings, and specifications; ability to follow oral and written instructions;

ability to recognize, diagnose, and solve problems within scope of responsibility; ability to perform heavy manual labor; ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates.

Physical Requirements
This work requires the frequent exertion of up to 50 pounds of force and occasional exertion of more than 100 pounds of force; work regularly requires speaking or hearing, using hands and fingers, reaching with hands and arms in repetitive motions, frequently requires standing, walking and stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling and occasionally requires sitting, climbing or balancing, pushing or pulling and lifting;

work requires close vision, distance vision, ability to adjust focus, depth perception, color perception and peripheral vision; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts, using of measuring devices, assembly or fabrication of parts within arm's length, operating machines, operating motor vehicles or equipment and observing general surroundings and activities;

work frequently requires exposure to outdoor weather conditions and exposure to blood borne pathogens and may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment and occasionally requires wet, humid conditions (non-weather), working near moving mechanical parts, working in high, precarious places, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals, exposure to extreme cold (non-weather), exposure to extreme heat (non-weather), exposure to the risk of electrical shock and exposure to vibration;

work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic).
Supplemental Information

Special Requirements

• Bobcat Certification, safety training, and respirator fit testing to be completed upon hire.
• Second Class C Boiler License…