Maintenance Mechanic I (soon to be Union)

**This position is project to convert to union, September 2025**

Pay: $44595 - $52000 / year (paid hourly); may increase when union contract starts

Schedule: Mon - Fri; 7a - 3:30p (w/ availability for on-call if needed)

Location: Poughkeepsie, NY | IBM campus

Job Description Maintenance Mechanic Level 1

• Essential Duties and Responsibilities could include the following:
• Moving furniture and equipment as directed.
• Trucking furniture and equipment between buildings.
• Warehousing of furniture and equipment.
• Complete preventive maintenance (PMs) work as assigned including performing general maintenance inspections on doors, wet vacs, corded equipment, mechanical rooms, common areas and building lighting.
• Assists senior mechanics with more complex tasks or major repairs/modifications.
• Availability to work overtime (both scheduled and emergency), after hours (early morning or late night), weekends and holidays as required.
• Exposed to commercial mechanical, electrical, and building systems.

Perform general maintenance work on a variety of facilities and building equipment, structures, and hardware including:

• Minor door adjustments
• Chair, shelving and other furniture adjustments
• Minor desk repairs
• Ceiling tile replacement
• Light bulb replacement
• Securing loose or hazardous carpet and floor tile
• Other architectural aspects of a commercial building as assigned.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Must have a clean drivers license to move furniture and materials between buildings.
• High school diploma or general equivalency degree (GED).
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to verbally communicate with customers and coworkers.
• Attend all scheduled safety training offered and scheduled by management

Skills

• Knowledge and experience with basic hand and power tools.
• Working knowledge and experience with one or more of the following facilities systems is preferred: Office furniture installation and repair, ability to hang whiteboards and overstores. And all aspects of basic general maintenance.
• Familiar with Microsoft Outlook and associated programs.
• Be able to organize your workload efficiently to meet all customer requirements.
• Ability to read and interpret basic layout drawings, system drawings and manufacturers equipment specifications.
• Knowledge of standard maintenance practices.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift heavy objects, recognizing their capability, and when to get assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee could be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; outside weather conditions; risk of electrical shock, arc blast and vibration.
• Employee must wear appropriate PPE to mitigate the effects of such conditions and events. The noise level in the work environment can be loud and ear protection may be required and would be provided.