Skilled Trades Helper

FPS Classified
Skilled Trades Helper
Job Description
Exempt: No
Department: Maintenance
Reports To Assistant Director of Physical Plant Services
Location: Maintenance Department
Date Prepared: March 23, 2010
Date Revised: April 8, 2022

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION
Perform general and preventive planned services. Assists Master HVAC Technician and Skilled Trade
Technicians.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Perform Routine Preventive and General Maintenance.
2. Order and change all filters for all buildings.
3. Perform HVAC Equipment Inspection.
4. Respond to after hours calls.
5. Maintain records of Preventive Maintenance.
6. Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned
satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability
required.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
High school or GED, plus specialized schooling and/or on the job education in a specific skill area; e.g.
data processing, clerical/administrative, equipment operation, etc, plus 7 to 11 months related
experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Ability to read and understand documents such as policy manuals, safety rules, operating and
maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common
fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to prepare and interpret bar
graphs.
CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
Ability to use common sense understanding in order to carry out detailed written or oral instructions.
Ability to deal with problems involving a few known variables in situations of a routine nature.

PREFERRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
Low Pressure Boiler License
SOFTWARE SKILLS REQUIRED
Basic: Spreadsheet, Word Processing/Typing

INITIATIVE AND INGENUITY
SUPERVISION RECEIVED
Under general supervision where standard practice enables the employee to proceed alone on
routine work, referring all questionable cases to the supervisor.
PLANNING
Considerable responsibility with regard to general assignments in planning time, method, manner,
and/or sequence of performance of own work; may also occasionally assist in the planning of work
assignments performed by others within a limited area of operation.
DECISION MAKING
Performs work operations which permit frequent opportunity for decision-making of minor
importance and which would not only affect the operating efficiency of the individual involved, but
would also affect the work operations of other employees and/or clientele to a slight degree.
MENTAL DEMAND
Moderate mental demand. Operations require almost continuous attention, but work is sufficiently
repetitive that a habit cycle is formed; operations requiring intermittent directed thinking to determine or
select materials, equipment or operations where variable sequences may be selected by the
employee.
ANALYTICAL ABILITY / PROBLEM SOLVING
Moderately structured. Fairly broad activities using moderately structured procedures with only
generally guided supervision. Interpolation of learned things in somewhat varied situations.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR WORK OF OTHERS
Responsibility for work of others: Not indicated.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR FUNDS, PROPERTY and EQUIPMENT
Occasionally responsible for organization's property where carelessness, error, or misappropriation
would result in moderate damage or moderate monetary loss to the organization. The total value for
the above would range from $5,000 to $150,000.
ACCURACY
Probable errors of internal scope should ordinarily be detected within the department or office in which
they occur, but may affect the work of others within the unit, requiring additional expenditure of time to
trace errors and make all necessary corrections. Errors would require a moderate amount of time to
correct.
ACCOUNTABILITY
FREEDOM TO ACT
Defined. Semi-repetitive prescribed processes and procedures with nearby supervision.

ANNUAL MONETARY IMPACT
The amount of annual dollars generated based on the job's essential duties / responsibilities.
Examples would include direct dollar generation, departmental budget, proper handling of
organization funds, expense control, savings from new techniques or reduction in manpower.
IMPACT ON END RESULTS
Modest impact. Job has some impact on the organizations end results, but still from an indirect
level. Provides assistance and support services that facilitates decision making by others.
PUBLIC CONTACT
Frequent contacts with general public, patrons, or other outside representatives, wherein the manner
of handling these contacts has a bearing on the organization's position and operation.
EMPLOYEE CONTACT
Contacts of considerable importance within the department or office, such as those required in
coordination of effort, or frequent contacts with other departments or offices, generally in normal
course of performing duties. Requires tact in discussing problems and presenting data and making
recommendations, but responsibility for action and decision reverts to others.
USE OF MACHINES, EQUIPMENT AND/OR COMPUTERS
Occasional use of complex machines and equipment (desktop/laptop computer and software, etc.)
WORKING CONDITIONS
Outside working environment, wherein there are disagreeable working conditions part of the time.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
The following work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an
employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations
may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to work near moving
mechanical parts, risk of electrical shock; frequently exposed to work in high, precarious places,
outdoor weather conditions; and occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic
chemicals, extreme cold, extreme heat, vibration.The noise level in the work environment is usually
loud.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES
The following physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an
employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations
may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations.
Moderate diversity, moderately physical. Work activities which allow for a moderate amount of diversity
in the performance of tasks which requires somewhat diversified physical demands of the employee.
While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger,
handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance; and frequently required to stand, walk,
stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear; occasionally required to sit, taste or smell. The employee
must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds; regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; distance vision; color vision; peripheral
vision; depth perception; and ability to adjust focus.