As a Maintenance Repairman 2 with the Department of Transportation, you will take on meaningful work maintaining Pennsylvania’s road structures, bridges, equipment, and machinery. With our Erie County Maintenance Organization, your efforts will support safe travel by keeping our infrastructure in top condition. This position provides opportunities to grow you technical abilities while solving practical challenges every day. Bring your skills and dedication to a team that values craftsmanship, teamwork, and steady improvement.
This position focuses on maintaining and repairing structures, bridges, equipment, and machinery in order to ensure the safety of the traveling public. Your role will rely on teamwork and good communication to complete a wide range of skilled and semi-skilled tasks utilizing several trades at the journeyman level. As a Maintenance Repairman 2, you will perform the following duties:
- Structural Maintenance: Perform repairs to bridges, drainage structures, and related roadway structures and features using knowledge and abilities with welding, masonry, and other trades
- Equipment Operation: Operate construction tools and machinery such as welders, saws, compressors, power tools, forklifts, bucket trucks, and a wide variety of other power and pneumatic tools
- Carpentry Tasks: Build or repair shelves, partitions, ceilings, floors, and other building features
- Electrical Work: Install or update lighting, outlets, wiring, and related electrical components
- Plumbing and HVAC: Maintain and replace fixtures, pipes, drains, and other plumbing fixtures; perform normal maintenance and minor adjustments on HVAC systems in maintenance sheds
- Safety and Teamwork: Follow safety procedures, use protective equipment, and maintain orderly work areas; communicate with supervisor and teammates about work in progress and safety needs
Work Schedule and Additional Information:
- Full-time employment
- Work hours are 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM, Monday - Friday, with a 30-minute lunch.
- Telework: You will not have the option to telework in this position.
- Salary: In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
- You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.
QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Experience and Training Requirements:
- Two years of experience as a Maintenance Repairman 1 (Commonwealth job title or equivalent Federal Government job title, as determined by the Office of Administration); or
- Four years of experience in building and plant maintenance work, which has involved at least two of the building, electrical, or mechanical trades; or
- Any equivalent combination of experience and training that affords the applicant with the Required Knowledges, Skills, and Abilities.
Special Requirement:
- This position requires possession of a valid Pennsylvania Class C Driver's License.
Additional Requirements:
- You must have experience with roofing and siding.
- You must have landscaping experience.
- You must have experience following general safety guidelines.
- You must have experience performing carpentry, electrical, and plumbing tasks.
- You must have experience with general maintenance and tools.
- You must be able to perform essential job functions.
Preferred Qualifications (not required):
- Previous experience painting, performing drywall and plaster tasks
- Previous experience installing, repairing, or removing flooring
- Previous cost estimation experience
- Previous experience reading and interpreting blueprints, schematics, or diagrams
- Previous welding experience
Legal Requirements:
- You must pass a background investigation.
How to Apply:
- Resumes, cover letters, and similar documents will not be reviewed, and the information contained therein will not be considered for the purposes of determining your eligibility for the position. Information to support your eligibility for the position must be provided on the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education).
- If you are claiming education in your answers to the supplemental application questions, you must attach a copy of your college transcripts for your claim to be accepted toward meeting the minimum requirements. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable.
- Your application must be submitted by the posting closing date. Late applications and other required materials will not be accepted.
- Failure to comply with the above application requirements may eliminate you from consideration for this position.
- All application materials and interview responses must reflect the applicant’s own experience, qualifications, and work. Applicants may use generative AI tools for preparation purposes only. Use of AI to misrepresent or falsify information, or to assist during interviews, is not permitted. Review the Guidance for Generative AI Tools & Job Seekers for additional information.
Veterans:
- Pennsylvania law (51 Pa. C.S. §7103) provides employment preference for qualified veterans for appointment to many state and local government jobs. To learn more about employment preferences for veterans, go to www.pa.gov/agencies/employment/how-to-apply.html and click on Veterans.
Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS):
- 711 (hearing and speech disabilities or other individuals).
If you are contacted for an interview and need accommodations due to a disability, please discuss your request for accommodations with the interviewer in advance of your interview date.
The Commonwealth is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. The Commonwealth values inclusion as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most qualified people to serve the citizens of Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, union membership, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, AIDS or HIV status, disability, or any other categories protected by applicable federal or state law. All diverse candidates are encouraged to apply.