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Maintenance Technician

ABM Industries
  • Gary, IN
  • $20 Per Hour
14 days ago

Job Description

Overview

ABM, a leading provider of integrated facility solutions, is looking for a Maintenance Technician to complete assigned preventive maintenance and reactive maintenance repairs. We are looking for someone who has working knowledge of plumbing, electrical, carpentry, doors: interior and exterior, water heater, and painting.
 
Union: SEIU Local 73
Pay: $20.00 per hour. 
The pay listed is the hourly range or the hourly rate for this position. A specific offer will vary based on applicant’s experience, skills, abilities, geographic location, and alignment with market data. 

Benefit Information: 
ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package. For information about ABM’s benefits, visit ABM 

Responsibilities

  • Classroom & Facility Repairs: Fixing furniture, repairing drywall, painting, and hanging whiteboards or projectors.
  • Systems Maintenance: Monitoring and troubleshooting campus HVAC, basic plumbing (clogged toilets, leaky sinks), and lighting systems.
  • Safety & Security Compliance: Checking fire extinguishers, testing emergency exit signs, and maintaining door locks and security gates.
  • Playground & Athletic Field Upkeep: Inspecting playground equipment for safety (especially in elementary schools) and maintaining sports fields or gymnasiums (common in middle/high schools). 
  • Event Setups: Moving tables, chairs, and AV equipment for assemblies, sports events, graduation ceremonies, and PTA meetings.
  • Seasonal Adjustments: Handling snow removal, salting walkways, or summer deep-cleaning and classroom turnovers.
  • Rapid Emergency Response: Addressing immediate hazards like broken glass, major water leaks, or sudden electrical outages during the school day.

Qualifications

  • Must be 18 years of age or older 
  • Minimum 1 year of experience performing building maintenance duties listed above
  • Basic knowledge of proper use of power tools, hand tools.
  • Basic knowledge of operating a computer and Microsoft programs 
  • Recognize various hardware parts and methods of repair for related tasks.
  • Must possess organizational skills.
  • Must be able to perform unsupervised
Special Considerations for Schools
  • Student Safety: All work must be conducted with a high awareness of student presence, often requiring repairs to be done after hours or during school breaks.
 

Numbers & Facts

LocationGary, IN
IndustryBusiness Services - Other
Company Size10,000 employees or more
Year Founded1909
Websitehttp://www.abm.com/

About Company

ABM offers a wide variety of service-related positions, including electricians, HVAC technicians, security officers, parking attendants, and cleaning jobs. ABM cares about your success.

We provide training so that you learn new job skills and take pride in the quality service you're giving to clients. You'll look like the trained professional you are when you wear a ABM uniform.For your health and safety, we use non-toxic cleaning products and up-to-date equipment.

Our internal training program focuses on teaching you the skills and processes that have helped many of our employees starting out as a janitor, cashier, security officer or building engineer grow into various management roles throughout the company. These jobs aren't your everyday at ABM; they are careers.

Thousands of commercial, industrial, government and retail clients look to ABM for consistent quality service that meets their specialized facility service needs including commercial cleaning and maintenance, facility engineering, energy efficiency, parking and security services.

With fiscal 2011 revenues of approximately $4.2 billion and nearly 100,000 employees, our 300+ offices across the U.S. and various international locales enable us to provide custom facility solutions to sites of all sizes — from neighborhood banks and schools to the largest and most complex facilities, such as corporate office parks and major airports.

With more than 300+ offices located throughout the country, we are always accepting applications for janitorial maintenance, landscaping gardeners, security guards, parking attendants, shuttle drivers and building engineers.

ABM IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER (MINORITY/FEMALE/VETERAN/DISABILITY)

Skills

  • Audiovisualunmatched
  • Carpentryunmatched
  • Electricityunmatched
  • Emergency Responseunmatched
  • Furniture Repairunmatched
  • Groundskeepingunmatched
  • Hand Toolsunmatched
  • Identify Issuesunmatched
  • Maintain Complianceunmatched
  • Maintenance - HVACunmatched
  • Maintenance Servicesunmatched
  • Microsoft Product Familyunmatched
  • Organizational Skillsunmatched
  • Painting (Facilities and Maintenance)unmatched
  • Plumbingunmatched
  • Preventative Maintenanceunmatched
  • Primary Schoolunmatched
  • Property Maintenanceunmatched
  • Safety Complianceunmatched
  • Safety Equipmentunmatched
  • Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
  • Secondary Schoolunmatched
  • Security Complianceunmatched
  • Sportsunmatched
  • Systems Maintenanceunmatched

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