Position Title: Maintenance Assistant Electrician

Posting Number: C240149

Employer: State

Salary Range: $41,399

FTE: 1.00

Position Summary:

The University at Buffalo’s Office of Residential Maintenance Services (https://www.buffalo.edu/campusliving/for-current-students/maintenance.html) is seeking a candidate to fill the Maintenance Assistant Electricianposition. In this role, Maintenance Assistant Electricians perform semiskilled work in the repair, maintenance, and installation of electrical systems and equipment, following applicable electric code regulations.

You will work with a team of dynamic and diverse individuals and ensure that structures and equipment are installed correctly, properly maintained and repaired as needed across UB’s North and South campuses.

In a typical year, Campus Living houses up to 7,500 students at UB. Our skilled trades and custodial staff care for the buildings our students live in. Our priority is the health and safety of our students. Without dedicated cleaners and maintenance staff, the university would not be able to have a residential program.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Assists a Trades Specialist (Electrician) in installing and repairing electrical wiring

• Replaces faulty switches, sockets, plugs, and other simple elements of electrical systems

• Repairs and maintains appliances and fans by adjusting, cleaning, lubricating and replacing worn or defective parts.

• Position and fasten objects such as wiring, conduits, and motors.

• Effectively reads blueprints, electrical schematics

At Campus Living, we strive to achieve personal growth and learning every day, for everyone. We are a community that welcomes and celebrates every student, staff, and guest with all their diverse identities, beliefs, and ways of thinking. Our team recognizes the advantages diverse perspectives and backgrounds bring to the workplace. We are particularly interested in candidates who share this value and will work to achieve the university’s goals of inclusive excellence.

Outstanding Benefits Package

Working at UB comes with benefits that exceed salary alone. There are personal rewards including comprehensive health and retirement plan options. We also focus on creating and sustaining a healthy mix of work, personal and academic pursuit – all in an effort to support your work-life effectiveness. We support your growth and development through our career coaching and training department and we qualify as a public service loan forgiveness organization. Learn more about our benefits website (http://www.buffalo.edu/administrative-services/for-faculty-staff/benefits/state/csea.html) .

About Student Life

As a member of Student Life, you will join service professionals, all driven by one shared set of values designed to help ensure students’ well-being, create a safe and supportive environment, and promote student success. In Student Life, growth is a shared passion. We aim for excellence, thinking big and going bold. We pursue our goals tenaciously while stewarding the student experience. We build communities and advance diversity in all forms. We encourage discovery and celebrate success.

University at Buffalo is an affirmative action equal opportunity employer and, in keeping with our commitment, welcomes all to apply including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Two years of full-time experience in electrical work under the supervision of a skilled tradesperson

OR

• Completion of an appropriate two-year technical school course in the electrical trade at a school, institute, or branch of the Armed Services, such as the New York State Civil Service Employees Association-Partnership ( NYS CSEA -P) Applied Skilled Trades Certificate Program

OR

• An equivalent combination of experience and training gained by completion of appropriate technical courses in the electrical trade at a school, institute, or branch of the Armed Services.

*Successful completion of the NYS CSEA -P Applied Skilled Trades Certificate Program includes a total of 288 hours of trade-specific classroom instruction, 45 hours of technical math course work, 45 hours of technical communications course work, 15 hours of blueprint/schematic reading course work.

Preferred Qualifications:

• This position requires traveling within the north and south campuses.

• A valid driver’s license to operate a motor vehicle in NYS is preferred; or otherwise must be able to demonstrate the ability to meet the transportation needs of the position.