
Facilities Utility Specialist
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Job overview
The Facilities Utility Specialist works in United’s Facilities Maintenance Operations department, providing service to internal customers. The role supports facility maintenance through tool and commodity handling, routine maintenance, baggage-system support, surface treatment, housekeeping, and assistance to technicians. Work may involve assigned shifts around the clock, outdoor conditions, and physical tasks. The position is represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
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Full job description
Achieving our goals starts with supporting yours. Grow your career, access top-tier health and wellness benefits, build lasting connections with your team and our customers, and travel the world using our extensive route network.
Come join us to create what’s next. Let’s define tomorrow, together.
Description
At United, we offer a competitive compensation package, with benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, accident and disability, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, pension, and flight privileges. Benefits are subject to a collective bargaining agreement.
At United, we have some of the best aircraft in the world. Our Technical Operations team is full of aircraft maintenance technicians, engineers, planners, ground equipment and facilities professionals, and supply chain teams that help make sure they’re well taken care of and ready to get our customers to their desired destinations. If you’re ready to work on our planes, join our Tech Ops experts and help keep our fleet in tip-top shape.
Key Responsibilities:
As a Facilities Utility Specialist you will work in a fast-paced Facilities Maintenance Operations department. The Facilities Utility Specialist plays a very important role in providing quality service to our internal customers. The Facilities Utility Specialist performs work in accordance with guidelines established in the collective bargaining agreement.
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Identifying and checking tools, test equipment and certain commodities in and out of the warehouse, as well as the service, cleaning, inventory storage and accounting of tools, test equipment and commodities used in the daily operation
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Performing routine maintenance tasks of a general nature, such as servicing, cleaning and transporting equipment as well as cutting, sizing, and forming materials
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Assisting in the operation of the airline baggage system including and not limited to monitoring, managing and clearing of baggage related jams and operational support of the baggage handling systems
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Surface treatment of facility component parts with chemicals and sandblasting equipment
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General shop and housekeeping responsibilities as related to storage, break, and work area cleanliness
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Supporting the department through the transportation, inventory and accounting of parts and components needed to complete tasks
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Assisting Technicians with work as requested
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Facilities Utility Specialist must be able to work around the clock shifts, including weekends and holidays, in the outdoors in all weather conditions
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Schedules are bid and awarded according to seniority
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Facilities Utility Specialist are represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT)
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Salary increases will be coordinated according to the current IBT/United contract
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Shift differentials are paid for working an afternoon or evening shift respectively as outlined in the collective bargaining agreement
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New employees are required to join the union within ninety (90) days of employment
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There is an initiation fee for joining the union and subsequent monthly union dues
Qualifications
What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):
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Must have a high school diploma/GED or education equivalent or a certification from an accredited trade school
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Must possess valid state issued Driver’s License
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Strong social skills and the ability to function as a team member in a demanding service environment
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Good verbal and written communication skills
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Ability to work any shift assigned (nights, weekends, holidays, and overtime as needed) within 24/7 operation
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Ability to climb and work from ladders, and/or walk for extended periods
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Ability to work outdoors in all temperatures and weather condition
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Ability to work in an environment with exposure to high noise levels
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Moderate lifting
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Customer focused
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Must be at least 18 years of age
The starting rate for this role is $22.25.
United Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request an accommodation, contact [email protected]
How this job compares
Set against the 1,233 open Facilities Maintenance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 1, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$22.25/hr
- US median$25–30/hr472 hourly ranges
This rate, $22.25/hr, is 18% below the US median midpoint ($27/hr) — in the middle half of Facilities Maintenance hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 16 open Facilities Maintenance jobs in New Jersey and 1,233 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- CBRE187 open
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- Experience
- Facilities Maintenance postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (783 postings).
- Education
- 29 of the 1,233 open Facilities Maintenance jobs (2%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 1, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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