Maintenance Assistant

Job Description

Job Description

Are you a skilled maintenance technician with strong customer service skills and a can-do attitude? We want you to join our team!

Why just work, when you can help shape a legacy?

At Ciena Healthcare, we take care of you too, with an attractive benefit package including:

• Competitive pay,

• Life Insurance,

• 401K with matching funds,

• Health insurance,

• AFLAC.  

• Employee discounts

• Tuition Reimbursement

In addition, we will help you advance your career with tuition reimbursement, discounts and other support.

You will join an experienced, hard-working team that values communication and strong teamwork abilities.

The Maintenance Worker/Assistant performs various duties to maintain a clean and safe environment for patients, staff and visitors. Maintenance services are provided in accordance with facility policies and procedures to enhance resident comfort and enhance the quality of life.

• Demonstrate competence in application of mechanical and technical concepts to facility plant repair and maintenance projects.

• Demonstrates interpersonal skills to interact with facility staff and residents to answer questions and to make prompt efforts to resolve grievances.

• Able to apply building and safety codes to facility situations and maintenance procedures

• Conducts scheduled maintenance throughout physical plant and for all equipment.

• Maintains and tests the emergency power system to ensure availability of power.

• Maintains all essential equipment (e.g., boiler room equipment, nursing unit/medication room refrigerators, kitchen refrigerator/freezer, laundry equipment) in safe operating condition.

• Able to respond to change productively and to handle additional tasks/projects as assigned. Able to respond to needs of facility 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Education and/or Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent preferred.

• Minimum of one (1) year physical plant and equipment experience in an institutional environment.

• Experience in: electrical, plumbing, general carpentry,dry wall repair

• Vocational training in skilled trade or other relevant training preferred.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• None

About Ciena Healthcare

Ciena Healthcare is Michigan’s largest provider of skilled nursing and rehabilitation care services.

We serve our residents with compassion, concern, and excellence, believing that every one of them is a unique person who deserves our best each day that we care for them.  If you have a passion for improving the lives of those around you and working with others who feel the same way, Ciena is the place for you!