Maintenance Assistant

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Job Title: Maintenance Assistant
Supervisor (title): Maintenance Director
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Employment Type: Full-Time

Assists the Maintenance Department to ensure that the Community is safe, attractive and well maintained.

• Care for routine maintenance needs of the Community and its residents as if they were your own home and family.
• Assist the Administrator with fire and life safety training and drills.
• Respond to resident/Administrator/staff requests for maintenance through maintenance reports and log system.
• Ensure 24‑hour repair/response time for all daily maintenance requests.
• All minor repairs including:
  • Basic Carpentry – repairing trim, doors, window frames, base, handrails and drywall repair and patch.
  • Painting – resident rooms, doors and frames, handrails, and maintenance painting.
  • Basic Electricity – outlets, switches, covers, lamps and bulb replacement, cord safety and troubleshooting.
  • Basic Plumbing – toilet repair, faucet repair, drain repair and clearing (within 4 feet of trap or flange), shut‑off locations in building exterior and monitor grease and lint traps.
  • Basic Locksmith – replacing knobs, installing locksets, re‑keying from master, lubrication and ease of use.
  • Coordination – small refurbishment jobs like re‑carpeting resident rooms, ensuring that contractors respond in a timely fashion and resident safety while contractors are on‑site.
  • Preventative Maintenance – assist with keeping preventive maintenance log up to date, ensure that weekly/monthly/quarterly and annual inspections and cleaning occur at specified times and enter new equipment information as it is available.
• Community must be mechanically sound, safe, and well maintained. Interiors must be neat, paint and wall coverings clean, sound and chip/scratch free. The Maintenance Director will have a keen sense of detail regarding these matters. Patching, painting and repairing will be a major part of the maintenance program as well as carpet/floor care and maintenance.
• Grounds, building exterior and interior, and signage are maintained year‑round. Beds and lawns will be weeded and trimmed. Season foliage is also part of an exterior maintenance plan.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Must be willing and be available for emergency calls if needed.
• Work spaces must be kept orderly and clean.

Heavy Work – Ability to exert 50-75 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 25-50 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10-25 pounds of force constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects.

• II:
  Potential for exposure to blood borne pathogen.

This position is currently accepting applications.