Facilities Maintenance Specialist

Description

Do you have the desire to make a meaningful impact in a vibrant, diverse and evolving community? Join a collaborative workforce committed to serving the City of Irvine.

The City of Irvine is seeking a hard-working, experienced maintenance professional to serve as a Facilities Maintenance Specialist within the Public Works & Sustainability Department. The position performs skilled building and facility maintenance and repair tasks in assigned specialties, including painting and infrastructure.

This recruitment will supplement an existing Eligibility List for the Facilities Maintenance Specialist position, which will expire on 11/21/2025. If you are already on an eligibility list, please reapply to demonstrate interest and update your application information.

Your Impact

• Effectively communicates with customers and all levels of City staff including responding to internal and external customer service requests.
• Prepare work orders, inspection forms, and risk management assessments.
• Perform preventative maintenance, repairs, and installation for parks and/or buildings and facilities including painting.
• Review contracts regarding assigned specialization and monitor contracted work.
• Find additional information in the Facilities Maintenance Specialist job description.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent with vocational/technical training in a specialty, such as HVAC, carpentry, electrical, plumbing, or building maintenance.
• Three years building construction/maintenance experience, or any combination of education and experience that provides equivalent knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Possession of, or ability to obtain, a valid driver's license.

Best Fit

• Demonstrated computer literacy and working knowledge of computerized maintenance management systems, word processing, and records management.
• Excel at working independently and exercising sound judgment.
• Proven track record of outstanding situational awareness, customer service, and interpersonal skills.
• Understanding of contract management.
• Diagnose paint failures and underlying issues such as moisture intrusion; recommend long-term solutions. Apply specialty coatings for graffiti resistance and water protection, ensuring compliance with Volatile Organic Compounds, ADA, and fire safety standards. Coordinate schedules with departments, trains new staff, create work orders, and tracks tasks in the work order system. Provide informal oversight on team projects and safely uses ladders, scaffolding, and boom trucks.
• May perform skilled painting tasks. Lead full-cycle painting projects, from assessment and surface prep to application and cleanup. Prepare surfaces by sanding, patching, caulking, and priming; apply coatings using brushes, rollers, and spray equipment, including airless and High-Volume Low-Pressure (HVLP) systems. Select appropriate materials for various surfaces and environmental conditions and maintain a paint book to ensure color consistency across City facilities.
• Three years of commercial painting experience.
• Skilled in applying texture using HVLP and airless sprayers, with experience selecting and applying the proper materials across a variety of surfaces.

Your Team
The Mission of the Employees of the City of Irvine is to create and maintain a community where people can live, work, and play in an environment that is safe, vibrant, and aesthetically pleasing. We are one team that exists to serve our community in the continual pursuit of a City that offers an exceptional quality of life. The City of Irvine’s five values of Humility, Innovation, Empathy, Passion, and Integrity reflect the interests and needs of the community, and the level of service they expect and desire. We are One Irvine through embrace of a team-oriented approach by living our values every day.

The Public Works & Sustainability Department combines the strengths of Administration & Planning, Park Development, Transportation Planning & Mobility, Infrastructure Maintenance & Operations, Capital Project Delivery, and Sustainability &Environmental Initiatives to create a unified approach to infrastructure management and sustainability. City assets include streetscapes, open space, City parks (community and neighborhood), athletic fields, bike trails, roadways, traffic signals, and more. The Capital Improvement Program has an annual delivery of $100 million in capital projects, in addition to the delivery of the globally relevant Great Park. With over 200 dedicated staff across five divisions, we prioritize efficiency, sustainability, and community engagement in all our endeavors. Together, we strive to build and maintain infrastructure that meets the needs of our community while ensuring a sustainable future for generations to come.

The Process

The selection process will include an examination and conduct a background investigation prior to appointment. This recruitment may establish an eligibility list to fill future positions in similar and/or lower classifications within the organization.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The City of Irvine is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. We encourage you to inform Human Resources at least two business days prior to the first phase of the selection process if you have a disability that may require an accommodation.



Closing Date/Time: 10/9/2025 5:00 PM Pacific

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