Maintenance, Building Maintenance

Position:
Maintenance

Saint Stephen of Hungary of Skidway Lake

Employment type:

Part-time

Location:

Prescott, MI

Maintain all equipment/systems/buildings and keep in good working order (includes light bulbs); maintain lawn/trees/shrubs, parking lot, sidewalk/driveways, and fence. If unable to fix something/professional services are needed or need supplies, inform the office. We have three buildings and a maintenance garage that need to be maintained. This position is ideal for a retired (or other) person who wants to keep active and does not need a consistent number of work hours.

This is a part-time position (under 18 hours per week) with mostly flexible hours, requiring more hours in the summer/fall and far fewer in the winter/spring.

• Reliable and flexible.
• Able to follow through—or communicate when something prevents follow-through.
• Able to deal with shifting priorities and adjust accordingly.
• Willing to take direction, work with others, and able to recognize independently what needs doing.
• Must have the self-direction to perform regular checks of the interior/exterior of the spaces.
• Willing and able to initiate and reply to communications in a timely manner.
• Willing and able to complete and submit time sheets as required.
• Able to climb ladders and crouch in smaller spaces.
• Able to use or willing to learn to use general maintenance tools and equipment.
• Some experience with HVAC and electricity helpful but not required.
• Experience with wells, septic fields, sump pumps and water softeners helpful but not required.

• The list below represents the usual work; but additional items/projects might be requested as needs arise.
• Maintain logs for equipment.
• Maintenance of Lawn:
  Mow lawn and ditches, weed whack, rake, trim trees and bushes, use blower to clear grass from sidewalks and parking area. Remove any debris on church grounds.
• Maintenance of Sidewalks and Hall:
  In conversation with office during winter, shovel snow from sidewalks and around building exits & salt if needed, notating logs. Does NOT include plowing the parking lot.
• Maintenance of Mowers:
  Monitor blades and sharpen if needed or notify office to replace, scrape under mower deck to prevent grass build-up, grease, change oil, filters, belts.
• Monitor parking lot for weeds:
  Remove/spray as needed.
• Repair church fence that borders Mills Township Park if needed.
• Notify office when gas and supplies are needed.
• Keep Church Garage in order and clean as needed.
• Monitor AED, GFI, Exit lights: replace burned-out bulbs or batteries; note in logs.
• When asked, assist with moving chairs/tables in/to the hall, set up for yearly rummage sale, funerals, etc. Might also be asked to help move rummage sale items from the rectory basement to the hall.
• Fill salt in water softeners and monitor filters; update logs.
• Complete repair work as needed.
• Place Nativity set in front of church at Christmas and place back in garage after Christmas Season (January). Help move items used in Liturgical Environment.
• Replace furnace filters yearly for church and as needed for hall and gathering space.
• Check doors & tighten hinges/locks as needed; tighten kneeler screws and replace brackets as needed.
• Assist with other projects as they arise.
• Some fencing on the back line is maintained by the Township. Split-rail fencing is the church’s; rounded-boards fencing is the Township’s. Some split-rail fencing has been removed.