About this role
Parks & Recreation
Building Maintenance Technician I
Posting Expires: February 25, 2026
Salary: $21.39/hour
General Description and Classification Standards
The purpose of this job is to perform skilled/manual work functions associated with general maintenance of an assigned departments' facilities. Duties include, but are not limited to: directing activities, repairing and maintaining facilities and equipment; performing general construction, repair, and installation tasks; performing basic plumbing, welding, electrical, carpentry, masonry, landscaping, and other tasks; and maintaining the workshop area.
Supervision Received
Works under very general supervision. May work independently or with other skilled or semi-skilled workers with responsibility for completion of assigned tasks.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Performs general construction, repair, and installation tasks such as installing/repairing doors, locks, fences, and plumbing fixtures; replacing windows; repairing gutters and roof leaks; assembling furniture or equipment; hanging pictures, blinds, guardrails, and fixtures; pulling cables; and moving furniture.
- Performs basic plumbing, welding, electrical, HVAC, carpentry, masonry, landscaping, and other tasks such installing/repairing plumbing systems, gas pipe lines, and fuel pumps; soldering pipes; laying tile flooring; and troubleshooting minor electrical repairs.
- Maintains inventory levels of tools and materials orders supplies as needed; picks up special parts from supplier as appropriate.
- Maintains a clean and orderly shop; picks up and disposes of refuge. Performs various tasks or errands as assigned such transporting employees, and delivering supplies or equipment.
- Provides training, guidance and direction to co-workers or assistants on projects.
- Perform supervisory duties as assigned.
- Provides assistance to other positions as needed.
- Responds to routine requests for information or assistance from members of the staff, the public or other individuals.
- Substitutes for co-workers in temporary absence of same.
- Communicates effectively with co-workers and other employees concerning work orders, problems, questions, requests for assistance, and emergency situations.
- Communicates with supervisor any problems that arise; accepts supervisory instruction and direction.
- Answers the telephone; provides information, advice and guidance; takes and relays messages and/or directs calls to appropriate personnel; returns calls, as necessary.
- Planning and Organizing Plans and organizes daily work routine; establishes priorities for the completion of work in accordance with needs.
- Estimates expected time of completion of work assignments and establishes a personal schedule accordingly.
- Plans and prepares for special projects on a monthly basis.
- Equipment use and Maintenance Operates and maintains equipment, machinery and tools related to construction and maintenance projects which includes an aerial bucket truck, backhoe, arc welder, jackhammer, drill press, hammer drill, pipe threader machine, shovel, catch basin spoon, level, water/waste pump, water key, ladder, scaffolding, etc.; utilizes various tools which includes carpentry tools, masonry tools, electrical tools, hand tools, as applicable.
- Prepares checklist and performs routine preventative maintenance to buildings and equipment, as needed.
- Cleans and maintains equipment and supplies; assists in cleaning and maintaining workshop area.
- Record Keeping and Documentation.
- Reviews blueprints, drawings and diagrams.
- Receives various forms, work orders, invoices, reports, and other documents; completes, processes, and forwards as appropriate.
- Prepares/generates maintenance records, work reports, or other documentation; forwards as appropriate.
Marginal Job Functions Performs other related duties as required.
Other facts
About City of Atlanta
The City of Atlanta remains a transportation hub, not just for the country but also for the world: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is one of the nations busiest in daily passenger flights. Direct flights to Europe, South America, and Asia have made metro Atlanta easily accessible to the more than 1,000 international businesses that operate here and the more than 50 countries that have representation in the city through consulates, trade offices, and chambers of commerce. The city has emerged as a banking center and is the world headquarters for 13 Fortune 500 companies.
Atlanta is the Capital city of the southeast, a city of the future with strong ties to its past. The old in new Atlanta is the soul of the city, the heritage that enhances the quality of life in a contemporary city. In the turbulent 60's, Atlanta was "the city too busy to hate." And today, in the 21st Century, Atlanta is the "city not too busy to care".
For more than four decades Atlanta has been linked to the civil rights movement. Civil Rights leaders moved forward, they were the visionaries who saw a new south, a new Atlanta. They believed in peace. They made monumental sacrifices for that peace. And because of them Atlanta became a fast-pace modern city which opened its doors to the 1996 Olympics.
Die-hard Southerners view Atlanta as the heart of the Old Confederacy; Atlanta has become the best example of the New South, a fast-paced modern city proud of its heritage.
In the past two decades Atlanta has experienced unprecedented growth -- the official city population remains steady, at about 420,000, but the metro population has grown in the past decade by nearly 40%, from 2.9 million to 4.1 million people. A good measure of this growth is the ever-changing downtown skyline, along with skyscrapers constructed in the Midtown, Buckhead, and outer perimeter (fringing I-285) business districts.
What you'll do
- The Building Maintenance Technician I performs skilled work related to the general maintenance of facilities, including repairs, installations, and construction tasks. They also maintain inventory, supervise co-workers, and ensure a clean and orderly workshop area.
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