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Job Description
Job Title
Student Technician I - Training Support
Agency
Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service
Department
Infrastructure Training And Safety Institute
Proposed Minimum Salary
$14.74 hourly
Job Location
Bryan, Texas
Job Type
Student Worker
Job Description
Student Technician I
1 Position to be filled
Part-Time Position
Bryan, Texas - RELLIS Campus
$14.74/Hourly
The Student Technician will perform grounds maintenance to include push mowing, string trimming, brush clearing, and trash pick-up. This position will also assist full-time employees with assigned maintenance/construction tasks including but not limited to carpentry, painting, and class/event set up and tear down. The Student Technician may be required to assist other programs with facilities/class operations.
This position reports to the Training Support Foreman II.
Required Qualifications:- High School Diploma or GED, and current enrollment in a degree granting program at an accredited college or university.
Required Licenses/Certifications:- Must have a valid motor vehicle operator’s license or ability to obtain within 30 days of employment.
Preferred Qualifications:- One or more years of related work experience.
Physical Requirements:- Physical conditioning consistent with movement/lifting up to 75 lbs. of equipment using assisted-lift equipment, standing, walking, sitting, climbing, bending/stooping, kneeling/squatting, reaching, talking, hearing, lifting, carrying, pushing/pulling.
- Ability to work outdoors exposed to various weather conditions year-round, potential allergens, and elevated noise levels.
- Ability to travel independently to other and/or remote locations by driving an automobile and/or state vehicle.
- Ability to communicate orally and in writing.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:- Must be able to safely operate a Industrial Mowers, and various types of vehicles. Training will be provided prior to the operation of equipment.
- Must be mechanically inclined.
- Ability to follow instructions and communicate in English to perform job responsibilities.
- Ability to interact positively with students, vendors and staff.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Working knowledge of lawn equipment or the ability to learn how to work lawn equipment.
Equipment:- Standard office equipment: computer, keyboard, multifunctional printer, telephone.
- Heavy equipment such as industrial mowers.
- String trimmers, push mowers, pickup trucks, and utility task vehicles (UTV).
- Power equipment such as drills, saws (table, circular, miter, saws all, chain saws and chop saws).
- Pressure washer and other vehicle cleaning equipment.
- Occasional use of agency vehicles.
Notifications:- This position is security sensitive.
- This position requires compliance with state and federal laws/codes and Texas A&M University System/TEEX regulations and procedures.
- All tasks and job responsibilities must be performed safely without injury to self or others in compliance with System and Agency safety requirements.
- This position may require work beyond normal office hours and/or work on weekends.
- Ability to travel independently to other and/or remote locations by driving a personal or TEEX vehicle.
- This is a wage position established to accommodate a temporary organizational need. As such, TEEX does not guarantee any set number of hours or length of employment in this role.
- Must be able to work a minimum of 12 hours a week with reliable transportation.
- This position requires up to 5% travel.
Essential Duties, Tasks, and Percentages:
Lawn Care - 55%- Performs grounds maintenance such as mowing (push and zero turn), edging, leaf blowing.
- Picks-up trash at and around training projects, shelters, buildings, roadways and lunchrooms
- Applies herbicide as required.
Facility Maintenance/Construction - 20%- Assists full-time employees with the maintenance and or construction of training projects.
Class/Event Support - 10%- Assists with the preparation and clean-up of classes.
- Prepares for training by delivering and placing training equipment and materials, setting up of classrooms and lunch areas, assists with the restoration of training areas by securing the equipment in designated storage areas.
- Prepares for events by assisting with set up and tear down (moving chairs and tables, etc.).
- Assists other programs with facilities/class operations.
Tool/Equipment Operation - 10%- Use the appropriate tools/equipment to perform assigned tasks.
Supply Acquisition/Vehicle Repair - 5%- Pick up materials, supplies and equipment from local vendors.
- Deliver and pick up vehicles from repair shops.
- Perform minor repairs to TEEX owned vehicles.
Other Duties:- Complies with work schedule provided, maintains a set work schedule and reports to work and duty assignments on time per the class schedule provided.
- Maintains a clean and neat appearance.
- Shows safety awareness and demonstrate safe working habits/practices.
- Ensures that buildings and property are secured when unattended.
- Takes all appropriate measures to prevent loss, theft, or damage to any TEEX property.
- Immediately reports any loss, theft, or damage to TEEX property to any supervisor.
- Attends scheduled safety meetings.
- Completes all the training required.
- Wears Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and specified uniforms as required.
- Performs additional work duties as assigned.
- Provide school schedule to supervisor when requested.
All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution’s verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution’s procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.
Equal Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer. - High School Diploma or GED, and current enrollment in a degree granting program at an accredited college or university.
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ABOUT THE COMPANY
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TEEX Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service
Show moreIt comes down to saving lives. From providing emergency responders to disasters across the state and nation to developing training and practical workforce solutions, TEEX makes a difference worldwide. More than 174,000 people representing every U.S. state and 109 countries are served annually through on-site and online resources for specialties from homeland security to economic development and workforce training.
Home to some of the world’s top training facilities, the emergency preparedness campus in Bryan/College Station includes the Brayton Fire Training Field, Disaster City® and the Emergency Operations Training Center. Customized TEEX training programs develop practical solutions for each client’s need through hands-on instructional facilities for public utilities, law enforcement and unexploded ordinance training at the home campus or at customer-specified locations worldwide.
Texas A&M Task Force 1 and Texas Task Force 2, the state’s elite urban search and rescue teams, are sponsored by TEEX. Throughout its existence, TX-TF1 has served the state of Texas and the nation by participating in over 100 deployments, completing search and rescue missions with highly trained and qualified personnel.
As part of the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium and home to the National Emergency Response and Recovery Training Center, TEEX has been leading homeland security training since 1998.
The major TEEX programs include fire and rescue, infrastructure and safety, law enforcement, economic and workforce development, and homeland security. As a member of The Texas A&M University System, TEEX is unique in its ability to access a broad range of emerging research and technical expertise. Beginning with course design and development all the way through hands-on instruction and national certification testing, TEEX delivers comprehensive training through both classroom and hands-on instruction and as online courses. Hosting services for online courses, technical assistance and technology validation, and bilingual training and translation services also are available.
By placing safety and well-being above all and by focusing on prevention and response, TEEX has become a comprehensive training provider through more than 80 years of extension training. Working with other agencies and encouraging involvement has led to better fire safety and emergency response, cleaner drinking water, better roads and infrastructure, improved homeland security, safer workplaces, heightened public safety and security, new therapeutics manufacturing and the evolution of cybersecurity.
Through innovative programs and adaptive outreach, TEEX services are created to train the people who expand the security, occupational and economic development of Texas and beyond.
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