Maintenance Specialist

Position: Maintenance Specialist I
DEPARTMENT: FACILITY ENGINEERING AND SAFETY MGMT

FACILITY:
Tift Regional Medical Center

WORK TYPE:
Full Time

SHIFT:
Daytime

SUMMARY:

The Maintenance Specialist I performs general, routine maintenance and servicing operations throughout organization and area under supervision.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Attends all mandatory meetings.

* Determine legitimacy of work orders issued for effective repair of equipment.

* Follows safety practices to prevent liabilities to the organization.

* Completes all repairs in a timely manner.

* Ensures equipment and tools used by maintenance personnel are maintained in quality service for use.

* Employee conducts themselves in a professional manner.

* Ensures the safe and efficient operation of hospitals mechanical equipment.

* Inspects and evaluates structural integrity of the organizations buildings.

* Maintains stock levels of the parts in the Maintenance shop.

* Repairs equipment and performs services with proficiency.

* Practices Infection Control Standards daily.

* Cleans shop, mechanical rooms, electrical rooms and plant.

* Keeps abreast of pertinent federal, and state regulations and laws and Tift Regional Health System, Inc. ("TRHS") policies as they presently exist and as they change or are modified.

* Understands and adheres to: TRHS' compliance standards as they appear in TRHS's Corporate Compliance Policy, Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest Policy; and HIPAA and TRHS policies regarding privacy and security of protected health information.

* Demonstrates the ability to perform tasks that meet the age-specific requirements of the persons, patients, vendors, and staff that the employee is charged to interact with as required by the position.

* Offers suggestions on ways to improve operations of department and reduce costs.

* Attends all mandatory education programs.

* Improves self-knowledge through voluntarily attending continuing education/certification classes.

* Maintains required competency levels as identified in written exams, skills checklists, skills labs, annual safety and health requirements as well as service excellence education hours requirements.

* Cross-trains in order to better assist co-workers and to provide maximum efficiency in the department.

* Volunteers/participates on hospital committees, functions, and department projects.

* Manages resources effectively.

* Reports equipment in need of repair in order to extend life of equipment and removes malfunctioning equipment out of service with timely reporting to the appropriate personnel.

* Makes good use of time so as to not create needless overtime.

EDUCATION:

* GED/High School Equivalent

OTHER INFORMATION:

Two years of experience in fields of mechanical and electrical work normally performed by hospital maintenance personnel required. Two years of vocational type courses in areas of training which will qualify a person to fulfill duties of a maintenance mechanic or equivalent training preferred.

Southwell/Tift Regional Health System, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.