Job Description

Background:

The Mechanical Maintenance and Operations group is responsible for the preventative maintenance, repairs and operations of various mechanical systems within 55 DCAS-managed court and non-court buildings. They are also responsible for maintaining all heating, ventilation, and air conditioning equipment for safe, reliable, and efficient operation, including seasonal tune-ups; filter, belt, steam trap replacement, lubrication and perform emergency repairs on a 24-hour basis.

Responsibilities:

High Pressure Plant Tenders, under direct supervision, tend oil, gas or coal fired high-pressure boilers, incinerator furnaces and related equipment, and assist in the maintenance and repair of this equipment. May be assigned to inspect, maintain and repair heating, ventilation, refrigeration, air conditioning and related auxiliary systems and equipment. They hand fire high-pressure boilers using solid fuels, and stoker equipment and incinerator furnaces using burnable refuse; clean fires; tend and operate stoker equipment, oil-, gas-, or coal-fired high-pressure boilers and incinerator furnaces, and related equipment; maintain, clean, repair and assist in the inspection and testing of high-pressure boilers, incinerators, auxiliaries and related equipment; maintain, clean, repair and/or tend to, and assist in the inspection and testing of equipment and systems used in heating, ventilation, refrigeration, air conditioning and related auxiliary equipment, such as cooling towers, air handlers, chilled water pumps, air cleaners and filters, fans, heat exchangers, tubes, air treatment assemblies, humidifiers/dehumidifiers, and controls; may dismantle and/or assemble equipment associated with heating, ventilation, refrigeration, air conditioning and mechanical systems to make it operational; requisition parts as required; and may operate a motor vehicle. All High Pressure Plant Tenders perform related work.

Qualifications

1. Two years of full-time satisfactory experience within the last ten years operating and maintaining high pressure boilers or the equivalent marine experience; or
2. Not less than one year of experience as described in "1" above plus sufficient training of a relevant nature acquired in an approved trade or vocational high school to make up the equivalent of the remaining required experience. Six months of acceptable experience will be credited for each year of approved trade or vocational high school.