Maintenance Assistant

Job Title: Maintenance Assistant

Supervisor (title): Maintenance Director

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Purpose:

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

Essential Functions:

• Care for the 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 the keep 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.

Working Conditions (travel, hours, environment):

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

Physical/Sensory Requirements:

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.

OSHA Category Classification:

• II: Potential for exposure to bloodborne pathogen.