Maintenance Assistant

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures the facility remains in compliance with all federal, state and local regulations for Life Safety Code compliance.
• Participates in proper planning, direction, participation, and supervision of both preventative and unplanned maintenance and repair activities in the facility, which includes painting, plumbing, carpentry, HVAC, and electrical work.
• Assists with ensuring that services performed by outside vendors are properly completed/supervised in accordance with contracts/work orders.
• Assists with ensuring that the facility’s Fire Safety program complies with the 2012 version of the Life Safety Code and Health Care Facilities Code. Includes but is not limited to required fire drills, training on the facility’s fire safety plan, safe use of oxygen, electrical safety.
• Assists with ensuring the facility’s compliance with multiple OSHA standards. Some of OSHA’s required trainings overlap with fire safety requirements. Additional required trainings may include but are not limited to those related to reporting of work-related incidents, blood borne pathogens-hazardous waste removal, hazard communication, personal protective equipment, and ergonomics.
• Assists with the development and implementation of the facility’s Emergency Preparedness Plan. A training program must reflect the risks identified in the facility’s risk assessment so that staff can demonstrate knowledge of emergency procedures. Drills and exercises are required to test the effectiveness of the training.
• Implements preventive maintenance tasks, documents instructions and procedures for the preventative maintenance of the facility and utility components and office equipment, as well as mechanical, air conditioning, heating, and electrical systems.
• Assists in standardizing the methods in which maintenance tasks will be performed.
• Assists with ensuring the facility’s compliance with the law and other regulatory terms such as safety and building codes.
• Assists with reading and interpreting blueprints in order to monitor the upkeep of electrical, HVAC, and other systems.
• Assists with running, operating, and assessing technical aspects of facility machinery, equipment, and buildings.
• Other responsibilities will be given on site during onboarding.