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Position Number:  130520
Classification Title:  Maintenance Specialist
Working Title:  Lead Locksmith

Department:  Facility Maintenance
FLSA Status:  Non-Exempt
Salary Range:  $35,047 - $42,056
Pay Basis:  Annually

POSITION OVERVIEW

JOB SUMMARY:

Serves as the primary technical authority for key control systems, physical security mechanisms, architectural door hardware, and access control infrastructure across campus facilities. Operating under the direct supervision of Facility Maintenance leadership, this position performs journeyman level locksmith duties alongside cross-trade assignments in electrical systems, carpentry, and building envelope maintenance.
The Lead Locksmith consults directly with campus stakeholders and leadership to evaluate facility security needs and implement physical protection measures for building occupants. The role demands strict confidentiality in handling master keying lists, safe combinations, and access data, while adapting to externally imposed deadlines, daily interruptions, and heavy physical requirements.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Completion of an approved apprenticeship program for multiple trades; or a high school diploma and four years of appropriate experience. Appropriate vocational/technical training may substitute at an equivalent rate for the required experience.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:

Read understand and utilize key bidding lists. Understand and carry out instructions/orders issued by supervision. Understand and apply applicable building, ADA and life safety codes. Understand and consistently apply internal department procedures and University policies. Make rational, logical, work related decisions.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Five (5) years of professional journeyman level locksmith experience in commercial, municipal, or institutional facility maintenance, with demonstrated lead or team-coordination experience.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/JOB DUTIES:

• 80% - Maintains accurate, up-to-date records of hardware installations and keying systems to ensure total physical security of university facilities. Cuts original and duplicate keys using key-cutting machines or specialized hand tools, marking each key with appropriate alpha-numeric identification codes. Calibrates, adjusts, and services key-cutting machines. Coordinates key code designations and locations through the TMA work order system and participates in departmental key audits. Installs, inspects, services, and repairs door hardware, including panic exit devices, door closures, stops/holders, protective plates, trim, and hinges. Troubleshoots and repairs automatic door operators (including sliding doors) to ensure full compliance with ADA requirements. Services specialty lock devices, including coin-operated parking meters, desk locks, file cabinets, display cases, motor vehicle locks, combination locks, and safes (including changing safe and combination lock codes). Manufactures custom replacement parts for locks and door hardware using metal lathes, welders, carpentry tools, and sheet metal equipment. Conducts systematic preventive maintenance inspections to identify damage or deterioration, logging findings and submitting recommendations for corrective action to the supervisor. Consults with building occupants and immediate supervisors on optimal methods to evaluate physical security levels for campus structures. Handles sensitive and confidential security information with high discretion, including key assignments, bidding lists, safe combinations, and personnel records. Designated as Essential and Emergency Personnel required to report during university closings, severe weather events, unscheduled closures, campus emergencies, and as needed by leadership. Participates in scheduled on-call rotations and maintains rapid-response readiness for after-hours operational failures and critical facility emergencies. Demonstrates composure, a positive can-do attitude, and decisive leadership under high-pressure crisis conditions—directing emergency trade repairs, restoring critical systems, and executing all urgent operational duties as assigned to safeguard university personnel, property, and infrastructure. Serves as a dependable, highly adaptable leader who maintains a positive, enthusiastic attitude when stepping into special projects, emergency response deployments, event setups, or other operational duties as assigned by leadership. Consistently seeks ways to streamline administrative workflows, tool storage, and shop safety practices to ensure the facility department operates at peak efficiency. - (Essential)
• 10% - Locates and diagnoses interior and exterior electrical malfunctions using standard electrical testing instruments in compliance with safety standards and local electrical codes. Inspects and maintains building wiring components, single- and three-phase transformers, circuit breaker panels, disconnect switches, and control wiring for machinery and motors. Maintains building exterior lighting, parking lot lighting, and athletic field/court lighting fixtures. Installs and modifies building electrical wiring using appropriate conduit and wiring techniques. Replaces defective lamps, sockets, switches, receptacles, and relays. Performs electrical preventive maintenance inspections and documents results for supervisory review. - (Essential)
• 5% - Cleans, inspects, and performs minor repairs on building roofs, marking larger damaged areas for specialized repair. Constructs concrete sidewalks, ramps, and curbs from form set-up to final finish. Repairs wood and metal stud walls, stairs, ramps, handrails, cabinets, countertops, and casework. Installs and maintains wooden and metal doors, windows, glass, and associated architectural hardware. Serves classroom and laboratory furniture, restroom equipment (soap, towel, and tissue dispensers, mirrors), and restroom partitions. Repairs suspended ceiling systems and floor coverings (vinyl, tile, carpet). Maintains support equipment for campus swimming pools. Fabricates and installs exterior signage using computer-operated sign plotter. Repairs portable and stationary bleachers and performs routine building envelope preventative maintenance inspections. - (Essential)
• 5% - Assists other craftsmen and trade specialists on major repairs or facility projects as assigned by supervision. Maintains shop areas, job sites, and assigned service vehicles in a clean, orderly, safe and properly stocked condition. Safely operates, adjusts, and maintains stationary power tools, portable power tools, hand tools, pneumatic tools, and powder-actuated equipment. Prepares accurate material and labor estimates based on construction drawings, blueprints, sketches, or written/verbal instructions. Logs labor hours and material expenditures on work order forms and digital tracking systems. Manages assigned university purchase cards in accordance with state guidelines and departmental policy. - (Essential)

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Physical Requirements: Regularly involves lifting, bending or other physical exertion. Often exposed to one or more disagreeable environmental factors, such as heat, cold, noise, dust, dirt, chemicals, etc., with often to the point of being objectionable.
• Impact of Deadlines: Externally imposed deadlines set and revised beyond one’s control. Interruptions influence priorities. Difficult to anticipate nature or volume of work with certainty beyond a few days.
• Standing: Daily
• Walking: Daily
• Sitting: Daily
• Reaching with hands and arms: Daily
• Climbing or balancing: Daily
• Stooping: Daily
• Use of hands to handle objects: Daily
• Lifting up to 10lbs: Daily
• Lifting up to 25lbs: Daily
• Lifting over 25lbs: Daily
• Talking as express or exchange of ideas verbally: Daily
• Hearing as perceive sound by ear: Daily
• Vision as distinguish colors & depth: Daily

Special Requirements or Considerations of the Job:  

• This position requires a criminal background screening.
• This position requires fingerprinting.
• This position is eligible for veterans’ preference.
• This position requires a valid driver's license.

Special Instructions to Applicants:  Candidates must apply online through the University of West Florida website: https://careers.uwf.edu.

Applicants are required to attach a resume, cover letter and contact information for three references.
An opportunity to upload these documents will be provided during the application process. For assistance, please contact Human Resources at 850.474.2694 or email jobs@uwf.edu.

This position allows eligible veterans and their spouses to claim Veterans’ Preference pursuant to Section 295.07, F.S.; applicants claiming preference are responsible for providing required documentation on or before the posting deadline date as such documentation is required for eligibility determination. Supporting documentation, in addition to the DD214, may be required based on eligibility criteria. For information on obtaining a DD214, visit http://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/ or call 1.866.272.6272.

At the conclusion of this search, if a non-preference eligible applicant is appointed to the position and you are a preference-eligible applicant and believe that you were not afforded employment preference in accordance with applicable Florida law and regulation, a written complaint requesting an investigation may be submitted to the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Division of Benefits and Assistance, 9500 Bay Pines Blvd., Room 214, St. Petersburg, Florida 33708. Such a complaint should be filed within 60 calendar days from the date that the notice the position has been filled is received by the applicant pursuant to Sections 120.569 and 120.57, F.S.

Prior to filing a complaint, it is the responsibility of the preference-eligible applicant to contact the designated Human Resources or other contact person at least one time after 45 days have passed from the final date for submitting an application or the interview date, whichever is later in time, if the applicant has not received notice of a hiring decision.

ADDITIONAL POSTING DETAILS

Number of Vacancies: 1
Work Hours:  7:00 - 3:30
FTE:  1.0
Closing Date:  11/29/2026