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Job Description

Overview

Planned Companies is seeking an On Call Handyman to ensure the maintenance and repair of various equipment at client properties in Brooklyn, New York. The role involves routine inspections and repairs to keep properties clean, secure, and welcoming.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure preventative maintenance of all mechanical, electrical, and plumbing equipment.
  • Check boiler and hot water heaters for leaks and report to management.
  • Schedule extermination procedures as necessary.
  • Maintain social areas or amenities as needed.
  • Assure walkways are clear and/or salted during inclement weather.
  • Inventory mechanical/maintenance supplies.
  • Troubleshoot tripped breakers, leaking pipes, and water intrusion.
  • Execute general repairs including doors, filter changing, and light carpentry.
  • Maintain a log of all operating equipment inspections.
  • Inspect rooftop exhaust fans and cooling tower.
  • Ensure trash removal and maintain trash area organization.
  • Replace light fixtures, branch switches, receptacles, and sockets as necessary.
  • Adjust locks and latches on doors, windows, and lockers.
  • Remove and replace all blown light bulbs.
  • Paint and plaster as required.
  • Maintain daily records of work performed.
  • Report necessary work to be done by outside mechanics and maintain records of completion.
  • Assist building management with all projects and other job duties as requested.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 3+ years’ experience in a similar role.
  • Strong plumbing, electric, and carpentry experience required.
  • Solid interpersonal and excellent communication skills; bilingual preferred.
  • Good listener and able to accurately transmit information.
  • Reliable, highly organized, with attention to detail.
  • Courteous, friendly, hardworking, and professional.
  • Eager to learn and take on additional responsibilities.
  • Extremely dependable and reliable; must be flexible to work during emergencies.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Schedule: On Call; Open Availability
  • Location: Brooklyn, New York

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
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How this job compares in Brooklyn, NY

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting comes in about 25% below the $40/hr median for welding jobs in Brooklyn, NY, where the middle half runs $30–$40/hr across 14 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 21% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Brooklyn, NY

We're tracking 22 other active welding openings in Brooklyn, NY right now, from 9 different employers. 7 of them were added in the last week. Across New York as a whole we're tracking 152 other active welding openings from 95 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Brooklyn, or widen the search to New York.

The most active employers in New York at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in New York, NY (22), Metropolitan Transportation Authority (10), and Con Edison (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within New York, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are New York at $41/hr, Brooklyn at $40/hr, and Bronx at $30/hr. Brooklyn is among them.

Similar openings near Brooklyn, NY

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. On Call Handyman figures were last recalculated when this page was built.