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Maintenance Generalist, Lead (PCN 20-8005)

State of Alaska

Corrections

Fresh

Location

Salary

$30.60 - $32.71

per hour

Closes

March 21, 2026

Job Description

Summary

This job is for a lead maintenance worker at a maximum-security prison in Seward, Alaska, where you'll handle a variety of repair tasks like carpentry, painting, flooring installation, and operating heavy equipment, plus managing locks and keys for the facility.

It's ideal for someone with hands-on experience in building maintenance who works well independently in a secure, high-stakes environment and enjoys outdoor perks in a scenic coastal town.

Key Requirements

  • Experience in general rough and finish carpentry, including installing and repairing carpet, flooring, tile, and drywall
  • Skills in preparing surfaces for painting and applying paint to structures
  • Knowledge of repairing and maintaining facility structures, equipment, locks, and keys
  • Ability to operate heavy equipment safely
  • Strong mechanical knowledge of machines, tools, designs, uses, repair, and maintenance
  • Excellent self-management with initiative, minimal supervision needs, and timely task completion
  • Good eye-hand coordination for precise tasks involving manipulation of objects

Full Job Description

The Department of Corrections, Division of Institutions, is recruiting for a Maintenance Generalist, Lead for the Spring Creek Correctional Center (SCCC), located in Seward, Alaska.

The Department of Corrections, Division of Institutions, is recruiting for a Maintenance Generalist, Lead for the Spring Creek Correctional Center (SCCC), located in Seward, Alaska.

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What You Will Be Doing:

Maintenance Generalist Lead position reports to the Maintenance Foreman and is primarily responsible for, but not limited to, performing general rough and finish carpentry work.

Installing and repairs carpet, flooring, tile and drywall. Prepare surfaces for painting and paint surfaces. Repairs and maintains structures and equipment deal with locks and keys for the facility.

Operates heavy equipment.

Our Mission, Values, and Culture:

The mission of Spring Creek Correctional Center is to provide a secure environment for staff and offenders that promotes public safety and provides an opportunity for staff development, and reformative offender programming to ensure safety and efficient resources management.

As the State of Alaska's only Maximum-Security adult male facility we provide confinement for minimum, medium, and close custody sentenced felons including the state's most violent and predatory offenders.


Benefits of Joining Our Team:

  • Employer paid Basic Life insurance with additional coverage available.
  • Retirement programs with a wide variety of investment options.
  • Vacation leave of 15 hours per month with an accrual rate increased based on time served.
  • Eleven paid holidays’
  • Health benefit package, which includes employer contribution toward medical, vision and dental.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:

Spring Creek Correctional Center is a maximum-security state operated adult correctional institution that has a capacity of over 500 male inmates and employs approximately 200 staff.

While much of Spring Creek's inmate population serve long term sentences, we also house prisoners serving shorter sentences.


Who We Are Looking For:

We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:

  • Mechanical: Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, benefits, repair, and maintenance
  • Self-Management: Sets well-defined and realistic personal goals; displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments in a timely manner; works with minimal supervision; is motivated to achieve; demonstrates responsible behavior.
  • Eye-Hand Coordination: Accurately coordinate one's eyes with one's fingers, wrists, or arms to perform job-related tasks (for example, to move, carry, or manipulate objects).

For job seekers unfamiliar with the Seward area, the following are a few highlights about some of the features of our area:

  • The community of Seward is nestled against a backdrop of peaks and passes sculpted by Ice Age glaciers; Seward’s ice-free harbor has long served as a natural gateway to the vast scenic and resource riches of Alaska’s huge interior.
  • Residents enjoy outstanding outdoor recreation including the Kenai Fjords National Park, which is dominated by glaciated landscapes. Exit Glacier is one of the many glaciers in the park and is only a short drive from downtown Seward.
  • Seward is located on Resurrection Bay, a fickle body of water teeming with an abundant species of fish and frolicking marine mammals.
  • Seward is home to the Mt. Marathon Race which is run every July 4th. The race totals 3.1miles and climbs 3022 feet. Top finishers cross the finish line in about an hour.
  • Seward schools are second to none, with the Seward Elementary School being selected as a 2008 “No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School.”
  • The region offers fantastic marine boating, fishing and hunting, cross-country skiing, bird watching, hiking, kayaking, running and biking, and much, much more.

Please see the Chamber of Commerce's website at: http://seward.com/ for more information and visit the following sites: http://www.cityofseward.us/ and/or http://sewardcitynews.com and/or www.alaskasealife.org/

Requirements

This job class is part of a series of competency based class specifications created for career areas within the Labor, Trades, and Crafts Unit. The class specification identifies the levels of work and wage grades within the career area, the core and specific competencies of the career area, required work behaviors, certifications, and physical requirements. The competency specification for this job class is available at http://doa.alaska.gov/dop/fileadmin/Classification/pdf/LTC_Specs/MAINTENANCEGENERALIST.pdf.

Vacancies in this job class are filled through Union referral, except for promotions, demotions, transfers, and emergency appointments.

Qualifications

If selected for an interview, the applicant must provide the following:

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS

If selected for an interview, the applicant must provide the following:

  • Previous Evaluations


EDUCATION

If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application.

If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed.

Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials if used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position.

Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview.


LEGAL EMPLOYMENT

The State’s online recruitment system, Workplace Alaska, requires applicants to certify that they have a legal right to accept employment in the United States.

It is the responsibility of the employee to maintain the appropriate documentation to accept or continue legal employment. The State of Alaska does not function in the role as an employer sponsor.


SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the minimum qualifications listed above.

If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S.

education programs; or an accredited U.S.

post-secondary institution reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the post-secondary institution.

It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.


WORK EXPERIENCE

If using work experience not already documented in your application, also provide the employer name, your job title, dates of employment, and whether full-or part-time.

Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and minimum qualifications are clearly met.

If they are not, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment.


PREA NOTIFICATION

The Department of Corrections follows and maintains federal and state requirements standards including, but not limited to, Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards which apply to all public and private institutions that house adult or juvenile offenders.

PREA standards preclude the department from hiring or promoting anyone who has engaged in, or been convicted of any conduct which would violate PREA standards related to sexual assault including:

  • Sexual abuse in a prison, jail, lockup, community confinement facility, juvenile facility, or other institution;
  • Convicted of engaging or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community facilitated by force, overt or implied threats of force, or coercion, or if the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse; or,
  • Has been civilly or administratively adjudicated to have engaged in the activity described above.


CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECKS/APSIN/ACOMS

Please be aware – this position requires the use of the Alaska Public Safety Information Network (APSIN)/Alaska Corrections Offender Management System (ACOMS).

A security clearance issued by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) is necessary to use APSIN/ACOMS.

DPS will deny security clearance for any applicant who has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor in this state or another jurisdiction, or who may be a fugitive from justice.

Additionally, security clearance will be withdrawn if DPS discovers that material information was falsified or omitted at the time of the initial application for security clearance.


FINGERPRINT NOTICE

All Department of Corrections employees are required to be fingerprinted. The successful candidate must pass a criminal history check.


RECRUITMENT DIFFICULTIES

Starting salary may be approved up to Step C - $32.71, if criteria are met.


DRIVER'S LICENSE REQUIREMENT

Applicants must possess a valid driver's license. Proof of licensure will be required prior to reporting to duty.


MULTIPLE VACANCIES

This recruitment may be used for more than one (1) vacancy.

The applicant pool acquired during this recruitment may be used for future vacancies for up to ninety (90) days after this recruitment closes.

Interested applicants are encouraged to apply to each recruitment notice to ensure consideration for all vacancies.


EEO STATEMENT

The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Individuals with disabilities, who require accommodation, auxiliary aides or services, or alternative communication formats, please call 1-800-587-0430 or 465-4095 in Juneau or (907) 465-3412 (TTY) or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at: P.

O. Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal-opportunity employer.


WORKPLACE ALASKA APPLICATION QUESTIONS & ASSISTANCE

Questions regarding application submission or system operation errors should be directed to the Workplace Alaska hotline at 1-800-587-0430 (toll-free) or (907) 465-4095 if you are in the Juneau area. Requests for information may also be emailed to recruitment.services@alaska.gov.


For applicant password assistance, please visit: https://www.governmentjobs.com/OnlineApplication/User/ResetPassword

Additional Information

Sandralee Bryan

Administrative Officer 2

907-224-8108

sandralee.bryan@alaska.gov

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Posted on NEOGOV: 3/10/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/11/2026

Source: NEOGOV | ID: neogov-alaska-5265277