Job Description

Elevator Maintenance Mechanic

Why UT Southwestern?

With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. UT Southwestern is honored to be a veteran-friendly work environment that is home to approximately 800 veterans. We value your integrity, dedication, and the commitment you’ve made to our country. We’re proud to support your next mission.

Ranked as the #1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth for the sixth consecutive year, we invite you to continue your healthcare career with us at UT Southwestern. You will discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and consistent opportunities for learning and advancement into leadership roles.

All full-time employees will have a robust benefits package including employer paid medical insurance. Children and family medical insurance plans are available at a cost to the employee.

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Job Summary

Join UT Southwestern as an Elevator Maintenance Mechanic. This position works under general direction to provide technical skills for inspection, maintenance, and repair of elevators in on-campus and off-campus university buildings.

Minimum Experience and Education Requirements

• Requires graduation from high school or vocational school.
• Requires three (3) years of work experience in maintenance, inspection, and repair of elevators.
• Prefer active holder of Certified Elevator Technician (CET) certification and/or International Union Elevator Constructors (IUEC) Mechanic Card.
• Requires a valid Texas Driver License and must maintain active while on the job.

Job Duties

• Perform preventative maintenance on rack and pinion industrial elevators.
• Trouble-shoot and diagnose problems in electric brakes, motors, switches, variable frequency drives.
• Cleans, lubricates, and adjusts relays, controls, door operators and elevator pits as needed.
• Repair and/or replace faulty components to return elevator to fully operational status. Assist Sr. Elevator Mechanics in ensuring machinery conforms to building safety codes and equipment safety regulations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Work requires exercise of judgement.
• Work requires walking, bending, climbing, lifting up to 50 lbs., pulling/pushing equipment up to 50 lbs.

The following is the acronym, “PACT”, and is fundamental to all non-clinical positions at UT Southwestern Medical Center:

• P-Problem Solving: Employees take ownership in solving problems effectively, efficiently, and to the satisfaction of customers, or managers. They show initiative in addressing areas of concern before they become problems.
• A-Ability, Attitude and Accountability: Employees exhibit the ability to perform their job and conduct themselves in a professional and positive manner reflecting a professional environment readily assuming obligations in a dependable and reliable manner.
• C-Communication, Contribution, and Collaboration: Who are our customers? Anyone who requests our help, needs our work product, or receives our services. Employees focus on customer service with creative solutions while improving the customer experience through clear, courteous, and timely delivery and communication. Sharing ideas with others helps expand our contribution to department goals.
• T-Teamwork: Employees work to contribute to the department’s success by supporting co-workers, promoting excellence in work product and customer service, and in maintaining a satisfying, caring environment for each other.

Working Conditions

• Work is performed primarily in areas requiring elevators.
• Working conditions involve some exposure to one or more disagreeable elements or hazardous equipment, such as dust, dirt, working in cramped spaces, etc.

Any qualifications to be considered as equivalents in lieu of stated minimum require prior approval of Vice President for Human Resources Administration or his/her designee.

This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code §51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.

UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.

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