Job Title: Maintenance Technician
Department: Wheeler Opera House
Classification: Intermittent, Non-Exempt
Hiring Range (hourly): $22.39/min - $24.63/mid - $26.86/max
Position Summary: Performs routine custodial and maintenance tasks in support of the Wheeler Opera House.
Supervision Exercised and Received: Position works under the direct supervision of the Building Manager.
Essential Job Functions:
• Responsible for spot cleaning all public spaces of the Opera House – box office level bathrooms; box office lobby and grand staircase; Vault bar lobby and bathrooms as needed once a show has begun and after intermission. This cleaning includes proactively monitoring and emptying all trash, recycling and compost containers if full; clearing lobbies of trash and food/drink debris; and spot vacuuming if necessary.
• Provides immediate assistance to audience comfort and safety in case of spills, seat issues, or other arising needs during audience occupation of the backstage, lobby, and theatre chamber.
• Attentive to issues regarding snow, ice, and water at the main entrance and box office lobby and proactively removes safety concerns.
• Available for loading dock traffic monitoring and assistance if required.
• Responsible for trash pick-up and general cleaning (e.g. spills mop up or cleaning) of the theatre itself once a show is over.
• Assists Artist Services staff with cleaning of Green Room and transportation of food service items back to the Public House after artist departure.
• Occasionally as requested, performs a variety of routine building maintenance and repairs in the theater and facility, including but not limited to carpentry, painting, drywall and texture, basic plumbing and other work.
City Organizational Values
• Supports and models the City of Aspen organizational values: Service, Partnership, Stewardship, and Innovation. Organizational values are shared principles that guide behavior across the organization. This position is responsible for upholding and applying these values while performing daily work functions.
Other duties as assigned.
Core Competencies Displays the following key competencies in the overall job performance to include knowledge, skills, and abilities:
• Service: Provides service with excellence, humility, integrity, and respect in daily work, builds trust by listening, treats people with respect, acknowledges opportunities for improvement, and follows through with commitments.
• Partnership: Actively creates strong, supportive internal and external relationships to attain a common goal and achieve greater impact together.
• Stewardship: Balances social, environmental, and financial responsibilities, evaluating the impact of decision making on a thriving future for all.
• Innovation: Develops technical expertise to pursue new ideas and creative outcomes, grounded in Aspen’s unique culture, opportunities, and challenges.
• Communication: Knowledge of effective and appropriate communication. Ability to use knowledge effectively in various contexts which may require oral, written, visual and non-verbal communication.
• Interpersonal: Works to develop strength in interpersonal skills. Has the ability to work well with diverse groups of people, both inside and outside the organization.
• Cleaning/Maintenance: Knowledge of and ability to use materials, methods, and tools involved in the cleaning and maintenance of basic building systems.
Minimum Requirements:
Education: High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
Experience: One year of relevant maintenance and or related experience and customer service
Technical Knowledge: Must be proficient with Microsoft Word, and Outlook (Email). Must have a basic understanding of computers and online computer-based technology applications, which includes accessing web-based platforms to record work hours.
Licenses & Certifications: Must possess a valid Colorado Driver’s License or be able to obtain one within 30 days of start date.
NOTE: Any combination of experience and education that would likely provide the required abilities, knowledge, and skills as determined by the City of Aspen may be substituted for the requirements above.
Position Type and Work Hours:
• Hours and days will vary according to programming schedule and will primarily include evenings and weekends.
Work Environment:
• Indoors: Wheeler Opera House theater and office environment.
• Outdoors/Off-Site: Transportation of waste, recycling and composting to outdoor dumpsters.
Physical Demands:
Visual Acuity: Ability to bring objects into focus.
Balancing: Maintaining equilibrium.
Bending: Bending or position oneself to move an object from one level to another.
Carrying: transporting or moving an object.
Crouching: Bending body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
Climbing: Ascending or descending stationary objects.
Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination: Performing work through using two or more body parts or other devices.
Gripping/Grasping: Ability to apply pressure with fingers and palm.
Handling: Seizing, holding, grasping, through use of hands, fingers, or other means.
Hearing: Perceiving and comprehending the nature and direction of sounds.
Kneeling: Bending legs at knees to come to rest on knee or knees
Lifting: Moving objects weighing no more than 50 pounds from one level to another.
Pushing/Pulling: Ability to use upper extremities to exert force in order to press, draw, drag or haul objects in a sustained motion.
Reaching: Extending the hands and arms or other device in any direction.
Repetitive motions: Making frequent or continuous movements.
Sitting: Remaining in a stationary position.
Standing: Ability to sustain position for a period of time.
Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
Talking: Communicating ideas or exchanging information.
Walking: Ability to move to traverse from one location to another.
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 accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This job description is designed to indicate the general nature and level of work. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive list of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Duties and responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice.