Department:

General Services

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Do you have hands-on experience with elevators, escalators, or access control systems?

Join our dynamic Facilities Management team and take the lead in coordinating and overseeing inspections, maintenance, and repairs of essential conveyance systems—including elevators, escalators, and lifts—to ensure safety and reliability across our facilities.

You'll also play a critical role in access control, troubleshooting and maintaining electronic locks, card readers, and system hardware, while managing updates and reports in the access control database.

If you're a dependable, detail-driven professional with a passion for keeping systems running smoothly and securely, we want to hear from you.

Join our team and apply today!

• Coordinate inspections, maintenance, and repairs of building conveyances to ensure compliance with safety and regulatory standards
• Act as the primary point of contact for service providers handling conveyance systems, automatic gates, and overhead doors
• Facilitate timely repairs and preventative maintenance for all conveyance-related systems
• Document service requests, maintenance activities, and vendor communications using the Archibus work order system
• Perform basic diagnostics and troubleshooting on automatic gates and overhead doors; coordinate vendor assistance when needed
• Support maintenance and repairs of access control systems, including electric locks, card readers, and control panels
• Manage access control databases by updating user permissions, adding/removing users, and generating reports

Work Hours:

• Monday - Friday
• 7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
• * On-call required

About You

Minimum Qualifications:

•  A High School Diploma or its equivalent
• Three (3) years of experience in building construction experience related to applicable, commercial, industrial electrical trade in facility service and maintenance
• A valid Florida Driver's License at the time of hire

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to use trade related hand and power tools, heavy equipment used in the construction / renovation of buildings and read construction blueprints

Physical Demands: May occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 pounds

CJIS Clearance: **The successful candidate will be subject to an extensive background check(s) as a part of the hiring process

** Subject to Passing Substance Screening:  This position is subject to passing a pre-employment substance screening.  An applicant who fails to pass a required drug screening test shall be disqualified from employment in any class for a period of five (5) years

About Everything Else

Starting Pay Range: $22.58 (Step 1)

Potential higher pay (steps) for those with multiple years of experience

Our interview process could include phone interview(s), Microsoft Teams video interview(s), and/or in-person interview(s).

If you are selected to join our team, please click on this link to review the Required First Day Documents. You will need to present the following items on your first day:

1. I-9 Acceptable Documents to show your identity and authorization to work. Use this link to learn more and review the different document options: https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents

• If your position requires a Florida Driver’s License, this must be one of your documents. (Your Florida Driver’s License can serve as one of your documents listed in link above – List B Documents.)  

2. U.S. Social Security Card (signed, physical card). This is a requirement of our Payroll Department and failure to provide this document could jeopardize timely compensation. (Your U.S. Social Security Card can serve as one of your documents listed in link above – List C Documents.)  

Benefits:

• Enjoy great benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Flexible Spending Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Florida Retirement System (FRS) and many, many more! Choose one of three great medical plans, including one with a $0 premium option, with completed preventative visits!
• For more information about employee benefits, please click this link or visit SCGov.net for additional information.
• Utilize our award-winning wellness program including free gyms at multiple Sarasota County Government locations. 
• Enjoy 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days and 16 paid vacation days in the first year of full-time employment with increasing accrual rates with years of service. (That adds up to a possible 30 days off in your 1st year!)​​

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We celebrate and value the experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, talents and strengths that make us different.

Our vision is to attract, develop, retain and engage a talented workforce broadly representative of the citizens and communities we serve. To further value creativity, innovation, collaboration and great customer service – internally and externally. 

A job applicant with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation to participate in the application/selection process is requested to make known the need for an accommodation to Human Resources or appropriate county staff members. For assistance with the application, please call 941-861-5353.

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Sarasota County Government is a Tobacco-Free/Drug-Free Workplace.