Maintenance Worker - Plant Services - Full Time

Your Skills Power Patient Care

Every repaired system, preventative maintenance check, and quick response helps support doctors, nurses, and patients when it matters most. Join a team where your technical expertise directly contributes to a hospital's ability to provide exceptional care.  

About Guthrie Troy Community Hospital:

Guthrie Troy Community Hospital has been recognized as a Best Place to Work in Healthcare 2026 by Modern Healthcare Magazine!

Why Choose Guthrie:

• Voluntary 403(b) Retirement Plan – Plan for your future with Fidelity investment options
• Employee Assistance Program – Confidential support for personal and professional well-being
• Shift Differentials & Premiums – Earn more for evenings, nights, weekends, and float coverage
• Friendly, Inclusive Work Family – Be part of a team that feels like home

Recognized as a Top Healthcare Employer:

Guthrie is consistently recognized for its strong workplace culture and commitment to caregiver well‑being, including:

• Best Places to Work 2025 - Modern Healthcare
• America's Greatest Workplaces in Healthcare 2025, 2026 - Newsweek
• America's Best-In-State Employers (PA) 2025 - Forbes 
• America's Best Employers for Healthcare Professionals 2025 - Forbes 
• America's Best Employers for Women 2025 – Forbes

Schedule & Coverage:

• Full-Time, Evening Shift, $1.50/hr. shift differential

Position Summary: The Maintenance Worker 1 performs a variety of maintenance and engineering duties for the Engineering Department.  Assigned duties are implemented in a manner appropriate to the age‐specific needs of the individual served.  The Maintenance Worker 1 works closely with the Facilities Manager who may provide several daily work assignments and oversight of tasks.

Education, License & Cert: High school diploma or equivalent required.

Experience: Three (3) years of trade school or three (3) years comparable related experience required.

Essential Functions: 

1. Constructs, finishes, installs, maintains, and repairs equipment, systems and facilities related to any craft or combination of same, using power and hand tools and other necessary equipment.

2. Performs a variety of other semi‐skilled and skilled work in various crafts such as plumbing, electrical work, machinist work, etc.

3. Cleans, lubricates, services, repairs, installs, and diagnoses malfunctions of HVAC equipment, laundry and dietary equipment ,sprinkler and standpipe systems, ice makers and refrigeration equipment, electrical system and other plant and specialty equipment such as boilers and cooling towers and heat pumps.

4. Operates cooling towers and heat pumps, pumps, air handling units, water softeners, compressors, medical gas system, alarms, and emergency generators to insure the comfort and safety of residents, staff, and visitors.

5. Identifies system failure and troubleshoots plant equipment in detail to restore to operating or contain problem. To include fire alarm, security, and communication systems.

6. Perform water treatment tests.

7. Maintains the systems, equipment, and facilities, in a clean safe operating condition in accordance with local, state, and federal regulations and department policy.

8. Maintains logs, performs rounds, complete p.m. work orders, tests, and inspections.  Makes recommendations for modification or improvement of preventive maintenance systems.

9. Maintains shops, mechanical spaces, resident areas, etc in a clean safe manner.

10. Responds to emergency problems in the facility and makes emergency repairs as needed.

Other Duties: 

1. Conduct monthly fire drills.

2. Responds as security as needed.

3. It is understood that this description is not intended to be all‐inclusive and that other duties may be assigned as necessary in the performance of this position.

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Joining the Guthrie team allows you to become a part of a tradition of excellence in health care. In all areas and at all levels of Guthrie, you’ll find staff members who have committed themselves to serving the community.

The Guthrie Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Guthrie Clinic is a non-profit, integrated, practicing physician-led organization in the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania. Our multi-specialty group practice of more than 500 physicians and 302 advanced practice providers offers 47 specialties through a regional office network providing primary and specialty care in 22 communities. Guthrie Medical Education Programs include General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Anesthesiology and Orthopedic Surgery Residency, as well as Cardiovascular, Gastroenterology and Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship programs. Guthrie is also a clinical campus for the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.