Maintenance Assistant

Maintenance Assistant to work Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Responsible for assisting the Maintenance Director with minor repairs and preventive maintenance activities. In addition, the Maintenance Assistant may assist with housekeeping and laundry assignments. Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned. 1. Assists with the repair or replacement of defective equipment parts, using hand tools and power tools, and reassemble equipment. 2. Assists in the routine preventive maintenance to ensure that equipment continues to run smoothly, building systems operate efficiently, or the physical condition of buildings does not deteriorate. 3. Utilizes tools ranging from common hand and power tools, such as hammers, hoists, saws, drills, and wrenches, to precision measuring instruments and electrical and electronic testing devices. 4. Assembles, installs, or repairs wiring, electrical or electronic components, pipe systems, plumbing, machinery, or equipment. 5. Dismantles devices to access and remove defective parts, using hoists, cranes, hand tools, and power tools. 6. Paints or repairs roofs, windows, doors, floors, woodwork, plaster, drywall, or other parts of building structures. 7. Maintains and repairs specialized equipment and machinery found in the community as assigned. 8. Provides grounds keeping services, such as minor landscaping tasks. 9. Performs general cleaning of buildings or properties. 10. Applies cleaning solvents, builds or repairs structures and/or wooden frameworks, and paints walls or other structural surfaces. 11. Installs locks, hinges, or related finish hardware. 12. Assists in other areas of the community as needed (i.e. driving the bus, dining). Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Language Ability: Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization. Math Ability: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs. Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations. Education/Experience: High school diploma or general education degree (GED); and one-year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Certificates and Licenses: HVAC certification a plus Valid driver's license Equipment: Common hand and power tools to complete maintenance tasks Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to climb or balance and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to outdoor weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet or humid conditions (non-weather), work near moving mechanical parts, work in high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, bloodborne pathogens, bodily fluids, extreme cold (non-weather), extreme heat (non-weather), risk of electrical shock, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. #J-18808-Ljbffr