Job Description

Salary:  $44,356 - $64,298

Position Grade: 35T

Department: St. Louis Lambert International Airport

Job Type:  Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number: EX1113

Location: St. Louis Lambert International Airport

(Employees assigned to St. Louis Lambert International Airport may be eligible for a commuting allowance of $180.00 bi-weekly.)

This position is selected for the Hiring Incentive Program. The incentive shall be in the amount of three thousand dollars ($3000.00) upon completion of the probationary period. The hiring incentive will be paid (if funds are available) by the Department/Division which appoints the applicant. The hiring incentive is not available to current City employees.

Incumbents in this position are responsible for inspecting, testing, maintaining and repairing City facilities, equipment and systems in a variety of trades areas.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

● Maintains equipment and systems for water supply, waste processing, fire suppression, and building security. Performs preventive maintenance to equipment. Checks operation, line integrity, and pressure, and changes filters.

● Pours and finishes concrete.

● Installs equipment such as plumbing fixtures, motors, pumps, filter tanks, sensors, valves, piping, fittings, and sewer systems.

● May perform routine electrical repairs.

● May maintain pumps, motors, and related systems.

● May occasionally weld, braze and cut metal using electric and gas welding and cutting equipment to fabricate, maintain and repair metal objects on city equipment, pipes, structures, etc.

● Erects walls, constructs a variety of interior and exterior structures to secure and/or protect areas and equipment.

● Installs and adjusts control units.

● must be knowledgeable and skilled in a variety of trades in order to maintain, diagnose and repair essential equipment and systems throughout the Airport.

● Experience in the following trades is necessary : HVAC, carpentry, concrete, restrooms, sprinkler systems, lock systems, piping systems, mechanical, welding

● Inspect and/or replace fire extinguishers Airport-wide.

● Read water meters and record data.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

● Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform basic level of data analysis including the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize and/or reference data, statutes and/or guidelines and/or group, rank, investigate and diagnose. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established standards to recognize interactive effects and relationships.

● Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide guidance, assistance and/or interpretation to others, such as coworkers and the public, on how to apply policies, procedures and standards to specific situations.

● Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, calibrate, tune and synchronize, and perform complex rapid adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as tractor, trucks, overhead crane, shop bench tools, hand power tools, carpenter’s tools, plumber’s tools, welder, cutting torch, soldering iron, saws, masonry tools, tape measure and/or related materials used in performing essential functions.

● Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and descriptive data and information such as regulations, blueprints, diagrams, schematics, work orders, schedules, materials slips, correspondence and general operating manuals.

● Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate surface area, volume, percentage, fractions and decimals; perform mathematical operations involving basic algebra and geometry.

● Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.

● Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against measurable or verifiable criteria.

● Environmental Factors: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, toxic/poisonous agents.

● Physical Requirements: Tasks involve the ability to exert regular and sustained heavy physical effort including the ability to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and regularly lift, carry, push and pull moderately heavy objects and materials, twenty (20) to fifty (50) pounds; and occasionally involve objects and materials up to one-hundred (100) pounds.

● Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors and shapes to clearly distinguish objects, sounds to detect malfunctioning equipment, odors to detect overheating equipment and textures to distinguish finishes.

Other Requirements:

● Must be available to work varying shifts including nights, weekends, holidays, and overtime.

● A ten year background investigation will be conducted in accordance with FAA regulations for positions at St. Louis Lambert International Airport.

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