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The City of Redwood City Invites Applications for: Building Maintenance Worker
WHY JOIN THE REDWOOD CITY TEAM?
We offer a wide range of meaningful career opportunities with potential for growth, training and development, competitive salaries, flexible work schedules, paid time off, and robust benefits. The Redwood City team is guided by the core values of excellence, integrity, service, collaboration, inclusion, and innovation. Inherent in these values is a great organizational culture based on trust, strong and supportive leadership, respect, risk-taking, empowerment, and effective communication. The community is known for its inclusivity, strong engaged neighborhoods, and civic pride. The City works diligently to maintain positive and productive relationships with community partners, together providing outstanding services, programs and opportunities for residents and businesses. This mix of tradition and progress, community and diversity, makes Redwood City an extraordinary place to work and call home. If you’re looking to grow your career as a part of a hard-working and fun Building Maintenance team that fosters innovation, creativity and collaboration, we hope you’ll apply.
ABOUT THE POSITION
The City of Redwood City, Public Works Department invites you to apply for the position of Building Maintenance Worker position. The Building Maintenance Worker positions in this class are assigned a variety of tasks in the building trades. Although work requires the use of journey level tools and the ability to perform tasks in several of the crafts, the skill required in any one field is normally less than would be required of a journey level worker in that field. Technical supervision may be regularly exercised over one or more helpers.
Typical duties may include:
- Assist in a variety of carpentry and building maintenance tasks for municipal facilities. Keep accurate and timely records of building maintenance activities utilizing a computer work order system.
- Install, maintain, and repair plumbing systems and a variety of plumbing fixtures such as drinking fountains, faucets, sinks, toilets, water heaters, and aquatic facilities.
- Unstop drains and toilets.
- Use computerized/electronic equipment as required.
- Solicit bids and order parts and materials (purchasing) as needed
- Repair, install, and construct walls, cabinets, countertops, and other wood equipment and fixtures.
- Perform hand and bench work, operating table saw, miter saw, drill presses, skill saws, and other woodworking machinery.
- Maintain and repair structures such as barricades, fences, scaffolds and playground equipment and perform maintenance and repair on park and other City structures.
- Make repairs on doors, windows, floors, lockers, gates, roofs, and ceilings.
- Construct new walls, ceilings, and flooring.
- Prepare surfaces for painting, wallpapering, or staining and remove graffiti.
- Apply paint to building interiors and exteriors, fixtures and equipment. Prepare and paint or stain cabinets, doors, woodwork and other surfaces.
- Assist in general facility maintenance duties as required
- Repair, replace, and maintain electrical wiring, fuses, switches, motors, generators, lighting systems, and other fixtures and equipment
- Train and assist less experienced personnel.
- Perform basic preventive maintenance and repairs to heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment.
- Perform work with a record of regular attendance and punctuality.
Ideal Candidate
Will have worked in areas such as carpentry, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, building maintenance & repairs. Will embrace the City’s emphasis on excellent customer service; be detail-oriented and able to manage multiple tasks between skill areas; will use initiative and independent judgement; will be a team player who likes working with a variety of City staff and the public and have a sense of humor.
Benefits
See job flyer
Special Instructions
Submit your application via: www.CalOpps.org by Monday, October 27, 2025 by 11:59 pm or upon receipt of 50 applications. In-person practical exam is tentatively scheduled on Wednesday, December 3, 2025 and those who pass the practical will be invited to an in-person oral board scheduled on Wednesday, December 10, 2025.
A City application and complete supplemental questionnaire, are required. A Cover letter and a resume are optional. Applications must be filled out completely. Failure to list work experience, and education or training or stating “See Resume” in the work experience section of the application will be considered an incomplete application and subject to disqualification. Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a City application.
Selection Process:
All applications will be reviewed for neatness, accuracy, completion, relevant education, experience, training and other job-related qualifications. The most highly qualified applicants will be asked to participate in the testing process, which will consist of a virtual oral board.
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