Maintenance Trades Helper

Maintenance Trades Helper

PRIDE Industries is a fast-paced company with a mission: To Create Jobs for People with Disabilities while providing high quality, value-added solutions to our nationwide customers. We are currently recruiting to fill the following position:

Under close supervision, the Maintenance Trades Helper assists one or more workers in the skilled maintenance trades by performing specific or general duties of lesser skill. The kind of work the helper performs varies from trade to trade. Employees in this job class keep a worker supplied with materials and tools, clean work areas, machines, and equipment. This is an entry level position.

Typical duties include performing a variety of lesser skilled maintenance duties, assisting journeyman by supplying, lifting and holding materials or tools, performing unskilled tasks as directed by a journeyman, and may perform specialized machine operations. Performs other duties and special projects as assigned.

Minimum qualifications include 0 to 1 year of work experience, preferably in construction or maintenance, ability to follow instructions on labels for proper and safe use of tools and equipment, ability to communicate effectively and respond to questions and requests from customers and others, human relations skills to build effective working relationships, basic mathematical ability, ability to read and use measurements, flexibility to adapt to changing work priorities, ability to manage and accurately track material resources and time, and demonstrated organizational, problem solving and common sense skills.

Physical requirements include maneuvering to and around equipment, standing and walking, bending, stooping, kneeling and reaching, lifting of boxes or equipment up to 50 pounds, and climbing ladders or step stools. Work is performed at a customer's location in office, shop, warehouse, or outdoor environment. May require driving to and from worksite locations. Equipment can be located in crawl spaces, rooftops, and outside facility. Employees may be exposed to hazardous and/or toxic substances, electrical shock, noise from equipment, and depending on external weather conditions, wind, rain, cold, and heat.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job. Employees are expected to follow their supervisor's instructions and to perform the tasks requested by their supervisors.

At PRIDE, we make a difference in the lives of many, one job at a time.