Bowdoin hired as county’s new maintenance man
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The job was posted and after the Policy and Personnel Committee interviewed a number of applicants and presented their recommendations, Rogers made the final decision, choosing Warren County native Greg Bowdoin.
Bowdoin has been at work for three weeks and says he has already handled several maintenance jobs that would have required service calls from outside contractors. He is responsible for six county buildings, including the administrative offices, the courthouse, the health department, the jail, ambulance service and sanitation building.
“I try to go around and do preventive maintenance on them,” Bowdoin said. “Make sure to try to get things done before it starts tearing up. We’re trying to cut costs.
“Yesterday evening I was called to the jail for a cooler that was down. It was a breaker that had tripped and flipped back,” Bowdoin said. “Of course that would have a been a service call with anybody else. They brought me in to cut out a lot of that. My job is to try to save the county money.”
Bowdoin worked at McMinnville Shale for 17 years and later worked for himself. Bowdoin said he learned about construction work from his father, J.J. Bowdoin, who did construction jobs around the county.
“I was kind of raised up around it,” he said, noting he fit the jack-of-all-trades job description the county posted.
“I can pretty much do anything,” he said. “I’ve done plumbing, electric. I’ve done concrete work. I’ve done some framing. My strongest suit is probably plumbing and electric, but I’ve done a little bit of everything.”
Bowdoin said he’s been keeping busy since he took on the job. He plans to set up a system to check and replace filters in the air-conditioning systems in county buildings which should help save on heating and cooling costs.
Rogers said having a full-time maintenance man is already paying off.
“I think it’s going good,” Rogers said. “He’s already saved us money due to the fact we didn’t have to call in a serviceman due to things like breakers being tripped. That, and just setting up a maintenance program so we won’t be completely down before we get something fixed.”