Maintenance Repair Worker 3 - 20024537

State of Ohio • Lucasville, OH

20h • Onsite

About The Position

The Maintenance Repair Worker 3 performs and leads semi-skilled and skilled maintenance and repair work at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. The role provides work direction and training to inmates or other assigned staff and carries out repairs and preventive maintenance across electrical, carpentry, plumbing, custodial, and groundskeeping work. The position is based at 1724 State Route 728, Lucasville, Ohio, and is permanent, full-time, classified employment.

The worker inspects buildings and equipment for needed repairs, maintains tools securely, and completes tool counts and inventories. The role also involves controlling inmate movement, conducting searches when a security breach is suspected, responding to emergencies, attending meetings and training, and participating on institution committees.

The position pays $23.28. Work hours are not specified. Employment is contingent on applicable pre-employment drug testing and a criminal background investigation. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction is a tobacco-free and drug-free workplace.

Requirements

• Formal education in arithmetic, including addition and subtraction, and in reading, writing, and speaking common English vocabulary.
• At least 12 months of training or experience in maintenance repair, such as basic electrical, plumbing, carpentry, masonry, and use of associated hand and power tools and equipment.
• A valid commercial driver's license is required when operating motor equipment of a type and size regulated by Sections 4506.01 and 4506.12 of the Ohio Revised Code; the posting specifies this condition for the Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry only.
• Equivalent of the minimum class qualifications may substitute for the required experience, but not for mandated licensure.
• Applicants must pass pre-employment urinalysis drug testing, including testing for marijuana, subject to the stated medical-documentation exception.
• The final selected applicant must undergo a criminal background investigation.
• Relevant job skills include facilities maintenance and inspection, general maintenance, building maintenance, problem solving, flexibility, and time management.

Responsibilities

• Leads inmates or other assigned staff by providing work direction and training during semi-skilled and skilled maintenance repair work.
• Repairs and maintains equipment, including electrical fixtures, outlets, switches, motors, appliances, circuits, fans, clocks, cookers, heating and cooling components, consoles, disconnects, and fuses.
• Performs carpentry repairs to doors, locks, cabinets, chairs, desks, floors, walls, windows, stairways, and partitions.
• Repairs plumbing equipment and systems, including water and steam lines, sewer pipes, trap fittings, fixtures, pumps, regulators, valves, faucets, toilets, sinks, bathtubs, radiators, and chilled water lines.
• Performs interior custodial work, including mopping, sweeping, waxing floors, and washing walls and windows.
• Performs exterior groundskeeping duties.
• Removes snow and ice from sidewalks.
• Inspects buildings and equipment continuously for needed repairs or replacements.
• Performs systematic and routine preventive maintenance in assigned areas.
• Operates machine tools and welding equipment to repair metal parts and equipment.
• Maintains tool security and completes tool counts and inventories.
• Assists in related job crafts as required.
• Controls or restricts inmate movement to assigned areas.
• Conducts inmate searches when a security breach is suspected.
• Responds to emergencies.
• Attends meetings and training.
• Participates on institution committees.

Benefits

• Medical coverage.
• Free dental, vision, and basic life insurance premiums after completion of the eligibility period.
• Paid time off, including vacation, personal leave, sick leave, and 11 paid holidays per year.
• Childbirth, adoption, and foster care leave.
• Education and development opportunities, including employee development funds and Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
• Public retirement systems, including OPERS, STRS, SERS, and HPRS, and optional deferred compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed