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  • Senior Trades Technician

    Grand Prairie, Texas United States City of Grand Prairie, TX Full Time $20.80 - $32.72 Hourly Jun 18, 2025
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    City of Grand Prairie, TX

      Welcome to the City of Grand Prairie!  We Live Life Grand here – about 200,640 residents call Grand Prairie home, and we’re still growing.  Grand Prairie is the 16th largest city in Texas and the 125th largest city in the United States, but we still have small town values.  We are rated the #1 Best Place to Retire in the U.S., 2nd Happiest City in Texas, 5th Best City for First-Time Home Buyers in Texas, 7th Safest Large City in Texas, and in the Top 50 U.S. Best Place toRaise a Family! We have attractions that draw almost 10 million visitors a year to:  Epic Waters Indoor Water Park showcasing 80,000 square feet of year-round water fun referred to as a “cruise ship on land” The Summit Active Adult Center with state-of-the-art fitness training, indoor infinity edge pool with lap lanes and exercise vortex, theater, game room, sauna PlayGrand Adventures (10-acre, all-accessible playground) is an exciting opportunity to provide a safe and fun playground experience for all ages and abilities (open late 2019) Firehouse Gastro Park restaurant downtown (conversion of historic Firehouse #1) Lone Star Park Thoroughbred Horse Race Track The Theatre at Grand Prairie concert venue Historic Uptown Theater in downtown IKEA, Living Spaces and the Premium Outlet Mall Traders Village Lake Joe Pool Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! And Palace of Wax Epic Central Park, a 172-acre park with five lakes, a Grand Lawn amphitheater, trails and a water and light show Chicken N’ Pickle Bolder Adventure Park The Epic Arts, Fitness and Entertainment Center with $1 million in cardio and strength training equipment, indoor walking/jogging track, group fitness and more Grand Prairie recently welcomed more than 50 new restaurants and retail stores along SH 161, and development continues at a brisk pace. The city offers a vibrant lifestyle, with the best parks in the nation, more amenities than most, affordable to affluent housing and friendly neighbors. City employees work hard to ensure Grand Prairie is known as an organization that creates Raving Fans by delivering world-class service.  Our employee family and elected officials constantly live our values, aggressively move toward our vision and are always looking for ways to make the business of running a city even better.The hard work, positive input and optimism of all our city employees all play a key role in our success.  We look forward to you joining ourteam!

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    Job Description

    Job Summary

    Join our team as a Senior Trades Technician, where you’ll lead a skilled crew in maintaining and repairing essential building systems-from HVAC and electrical to plumbing and security. You'll coordinate contractors, manage inventory, and ensure equipment and facilities run smoothly, all while playing a key role in emergency response and on-call rotations. This is your chance to make a real impact by keeping our operations running safely and efficiently. Apply today with The City of Grand Prairie!

    Essential Job Functions

    This information is intended to be descriptive of the key responsibilities of the position. The following examples do not identify all duties performed by any single incumbent.

    This position has responsibilities that require lifting up to 100 pounds on occasion.
    • Leads and supervises the Maintenance Technical or General Maintenance crew in the daily work assignments, observing and monitoring work tasks, ensuring work is performed safely, evaluating work performance, assisting employees to correct deficiencies. assist the Foreman in assigning work duties and provides feedback to the Foreman.

    • Assist the Foreman in ensuring safety at all work sites, directing and supervising work for quality assurance, training, instruction, and scheduling work for technicians and overseeing contractor performing small projects and maintenance on city facilities.

    • Monitors project work by ensuring a safe working environment for crews; planning and requesting materials or estimates for projects, needed materials, services, and equipment. Ensuring project are completed in a timely manner; inspecting work; and provide problem solutions as needed.

    • Assist the Foreman with administrative duties by assisting in the preparation of daily work orders; overseeing Contractors performing maintenance repairs and small projects for the city, assist in preparing various reports; processing overtime and leave requests; completing accident forms; and monitoring projects, equipment, and supply inventories.

    • Assist in maintaining equipment by inspecting for damage, performing routine maintenance. Assist in establishing Preventative Maintenance (PM) schedules, and prioritization of work. Assist in maintaining updating and work order assets computer-based system. Monitors and interacts with the Building Controls System.

    • Acting supervisor, the absence of the Foreman.

    • All other duties as assigned by a supervisor/manager within your department/division.

    • Regular and consistent attendance and punctuality for the assigned work hours is essential.


    Minimum Qualifications

    Any combination equivalent to experience and training that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities may qualify. A typical way to obtain the knowledge, skills and abilities would be:
    • Education: Training beyond high school. Could include some college hours, technical school, or correspondence course.

    • Experience: 4-6 years of related experience. Ability to operate a computer and the associated programs. Experience with Building Management Systems.

    • Licenses: Valid Driver's License required.


    The City offers a full range of benefits for full time employees, including, but not limited to the plans as defined in the Benefits Guide. Summary of Benefits

    Closing Date/Time: 7/31/2025 5:00 PM Central

    Special Instructions

    7/31/2025 5:00 PM Central
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