Building Maintenance Worker 
Starting Salary: $31,308 

Division of Social Services

Duties: Under direction, performs varied simple and moderately physically strenuous tasks in cleaning and maintaining offices, furniture, buildings, and grounds; may assist in making minor repairs to buildings or equipment. 

Knowledge and Abilities: 
• Cleans rooms, offices, bathrooms, restrooms, dusts, washes, and cleans windows. 
• Mops or scrapes sticky or heavy liquids from floors.
• Knowledge of equipment used in stripping, waxing of floors, vacuuming, and polishing wood, tile, glass, etc. 
• Runs power-cleaning equipment, floor machines, cleans, and oils the equipment and changes brushes and accessories.
• Ability to obtain, store, safeguard, distribute, and properly use equipment, materials, and supplies.
• Handling cleaning problems, lift and move moderately heavy objects, organize cleaning work, and develop work methods.
• Knowledge of the occupational hazards and safety precautions involved in performing general maintenance work.
• Moves heavy furniture, supplies, equipment; loads and unloads trucks.
• Works from ladders, scaffolds, and platforms 
• Performs general electrical maintenance such as replacing light bulbs, wall plates, switches, receptacles, and light fixtures.
• Methods in performing general maintenance and repair work.
• Mow’s lawns, trim hedges, rakes leaves etc. plant and care for flowers, trees, and shrubs.
• Shovels snow, salts icy surfaces to prevent slipping and requires knowledge of motorized snow removal equipment.
• Maintains and makes minor repairs to hand tools, automotive and mechanical equipment, and facilities.
• Ability to read, write, speak, understand, and communicate in English sufficiently to perform duties of this position.
• Required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and computerized information systems. 

License: Appointees will be required to possess a driver’s license valid in New Jersey and abide by County Motor Vehicle Policies to perform the essential duties of this position. 

Note: Offers of employment for this title are contingent upon successful completion of physical fitness testing that includes drug screening and verification of a clean driving record.

Applicants should submit a cover letter and work history to:
Cumberland County Human Resources Department
HR@CumberlandCountyNJ.gov
OR complete and online application and upload documents at:
https://www.cumberlandcountynj.gov/jobs
Application deadline: Open Until Filled

The County of Cumberland is an equal employment opportunity employer. We are committed to recruit and hire qualified individuals without discrimination and regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, age, ancestry, nationality, marital or domestic partnership or civil union status, sex, pregnancy, breastfeeding, gender identity or expression, disability, liability for military service, affectional or sexual orientation, atypical cellular or blood trait and genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing).

The County of Cumberland offers a wide array of benefits for all full-time employees. Benefits include Retirement Programs, Medical/RX Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Supplemental Insurance options, Paid Leave, and Tuition Reimbursement.   Specific benefits are subject to the provisions of County policy and the applicable collective bargaining agreement. Part time employees are eligible for leave benefits as required by New Jersey law.

Cumberland County employment is governed by the rules and regulations of the New Jersey Civil Service Commission.