Maintenance Specialist II WEC Detention Facility

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Hiring Agency:

Correctional Services - Agency 46

Location:

McCook, NE

Hiring Rate:

$24.647

Job Posting:

JR2026-00023108 Maintenance Specialist II – WEC Detention Facility (Open)

Applications No Longer Accepted On (If no date is displayed, job is posted as open until closed):

02-24-2026

Job Description:

The WEC Detention Facility houses adults who have been adjudicated and are awaiting deportation. Information about the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) can be found at: www.corrections.nebraska.gov. For Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accommodations, please contact Megan Jones at [email protected]

• 13 paid holidays
• Vacation and sick leave (24 days your first year, accruing immediately)
• Military leave
• 156% state-matched retirement
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• 79% employer paid health insurance plans
• Dental and vision insurance plans
• Employer-paid $20,000 life insurance policy
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) eligible through the Federal government
• Wide variety and availability of career advancement
• Meaningful public service -- service with a purpose!
• Numerous training and development opportunities

DUTIES:
• Plans, assigns, reviews, inspects, and participates in various phases of preventative
maintenance, repair, remodeling, installation, and constructions work.
• Oversees preventative maintenance functions to include developing maintenance schedules,
ensuring work is performed as scheduled, and entering and maintaining preventative
maintenance data and reports.
• Reads and interprets blueprints, sketches, layout designs, and specifications to determine
supplies, material and equipment needs for various remodeling and minor construction projects.
• Estimates time, cost, and material needed for completion of projects, and requisitions supplies,
material and equipment.
• Supervises and evaluates work of assigned maintenance employees; recommends personnel
actions related to selection, performance, work schedules and assignments.

 

Requirements/Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: Associates degree or equivalent education in construction, HVAC, welding, or other maintenance/construction trade and one year experience in building maintenance or mechanical trade. Three years of experience may substitute for the education requirement. OR an Associates degree or equivalent vocational education in HVAC and one year experience servicing/maintaining/repairing HVAC systems. Experience may substitute for the education requirement one a year for year basis.

Other: Applicants accepting a job offer must pass the following pre-employment exams in this order: medical exam, and at a randomly announced time, pass a drug test. Once at the Staff Training Academy, must successfully complete the fully paid NE Corrections Training Program.

 

 

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Benefits

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