Facilities Maintenance Mechanic

Salary and Benefits

PLEASE NOTE: The starting salary placement depends on qualifications and experience and is anticipated to be in the range of $6,076.00 per month to $6,771.00 per month.  

Cal State East Bay offers a broad range of benefits that includes medical, dental, vision, retirement (CalPERS), 401k, 457, 403(b), dependent and health care reimbursement accounts, life insurance, vacation and sick, 14 paid holidays, one personal holiday and tuition fee waiver.

For more information on the benefits program, please visit our benefits website. The CSU Total Compensation Calculator demonstrates the significance of our benefits package.

Classification

Facilities Maintenance Mechanic

About Cal State East Bay

Cal State East Bay's beautiful main campus is located in the Hayward hills with panoramic views of the San Francisco Bay shoreline. Situated above the city of Hayward, the campus offers an ideal setting for teaching and learning and yet easy access to the many cities along the bay. The University has a satellite campus in Concord, a professional development center in Oakland and a significant presence online. Founded in 1957, Cal State East Bay is one of 23 universities of the California State University system (CSU). Cal State East Bay is recognized as a regionally engaged and globally oriented university with a strong commitment to academic innovation, student success, engaged and service learning, diversity, and sustainability.

About the Position

The Facilities Maintenance Mechanic is a skilled generalist, performing at a journey-level in one trade with strong skills in other trades. This position independently performs a variety of skilled preventive and general maintenance, repair, construction, and renovation work on facilities and systems. The Facilities Maintenance Mechanic is distinguished from the Facilities Worker classifications by the independent performance of skilled, journey-level trade work, particularly in the electro-mechanical trades.

This position typically operates, tests, installs, repairs and performs corrective and preventive maintenance on mechanical facilities equipment and systems including HVAC and plumbing systems; performs electrical maintenance and repair work including work on low voltage control systems; uses computerized maintenance systems to ensure preventive maintenance program objectives are met; performs a wide range of facilities renovation, maintenance, and repair work; estimates costs of materials and labor; determines the priority for requisitioning materials and supplies; may perform welding to make repairs and fabricate and construct parts; may monitor contractor performance and work progress; responds to routine maintenance and service requests; and provides instruction and direction to unskilled and semi-skilled assistants.

Typical work includes skilled and semi-skilled mason work; select and prepare lists of materials for jobs; order concrete; maintain stock materials; inspect mason work to ensure it meets quality requirements and specifications; maintain work records, time cards and material requisitions.

Responsibilities

 Service calls-Work will include but is not limited to the following tasks:

• Replacement/repair of blinds
• Replacement/repair of screens
• Replacement of lights/ballasts/switches
• Replacement/repair of exterior lighting
• Replacement/repair of floor tile
• Replacement of filters
• Replacement/fabrication of signage
• Response to hot/cold calls
• Replacement of bulletin boards
• Replacement of minor door hardware
• Mover assistance/seismic bracing
• Plumbing fixture installation
• Keyboard repair installation
• Replacement of ceiling tiles
• Smoke detector maintenance

Preventative Maintenance:

• Scheduled minor carpentry inspections and tasks
• Scheduled minor plumbing inspections and tasks
• Scheduled minor electrical inspections and tasks
• Scheduled minor painting inspections and tasks
• Scheduled minor mechanical inspection and tasks

Projects/Alterations:

• Customer Driven
• Time Sensitive

Training:

• Asbestos O&M
• Lead Training 
• Aerial/Scissor Lift Training
• Departmental Meetings
• Confined Space