Facilities Assistant

Job Description

Job Description

Salary: $18-$20 DOE

Job Title: Facilities Assistant

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Reports to: Chief Financial Officer

Job Purpose

The Facilities Assistant performs routine building maintenance and contributes to maintaining a safe, clean, and functional environments across all YWCA St. Joseph locations. This role plays a key part in supporting the organizations mission by ensuring spaces are welcoming and well cared for staff, residents, and the community.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• General handyman skills (basic plumbing, painting, minor repairs).
• Ability to troubleshoot and problem-solve facility issues.
• Willingness to learn and coordinate with vendors.
• Complete daily/weekly walkthroughs to identify maintenance or safety concerns.
• Ensure the building and grounds are clean, safe, and well-maintained.
• Respond to maintenance requests in a timely manner.
• Perform scheduled preventative maintenance (filter changes, seasonal tasks, inspections).
• Works in a safe manner and recognizes unsafe situations. Takes appropriate action to ensure safety of themselves and others in building.
• Work with heights, confined spaces (crawl spaces), and other limited work areas.
• Employee must possess a valid drivers license and private transportation with insurance complying with minimum agency standards.
• Assist in setting up rooms for meetings, trainings, or events (tables, chairs, equipment).
• Be available for occasional urgent maintenance needs.
• Attend staff meetings and trainings as required and/or assigned.
• Commitment to the YWCA mission of Eliminating Racism and Empowering Women.
• Other related duties as required and/or assigned.

Qualifications

• Possesses a high school diploma or GED.
• Previous experience in general maintenance, facilities, custodial work, or related field preferred.
• Must be 18 years or older to apply.
• Ability to prioritize incoming requests.
• Ability to exercise sound judgement and act quickly in an emergency.
• Ability to pass child abuse/neglect and criminal background screening.
• Ability to lift 50 pounds, routinely.
• Ability to work flexible hours, including weekends.
• Ability to work from heights, with proper safety equipment provided.
• Access to private transportation, valid drivers license with insurance complying with minimum agency standards.

Working Conditions

• Forty (40) hour workweek with flexibility to meet guests needs and/or deadlines.
• Indoor working environment protected from weather conditions and contaminants other than normal cleaning supplies. Minimal outdoor work, such as maintaining sidewalk clear of debris, anticipating and ensuring snow and ice removal/treatment, and trash disposal.
• On-call responsibilities are required.

Physical Requirements

• Standing for long periods, bending, stooping, and lifting up to 50 pounds.
• Repetitive hand/arm motion.
• Ability, on a consistent basis, to perform activities requiring cooperation, instruction, or speaking with others.
• Ability to communicate effectively in person with program participants, donors, volunteers and staff.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Personal Characteristics

The successful individual will demonstrate the following:

• Behave Ethically: Understand ethical behavior and professional boundaries and ensure your own behavior is consistent with professional ethical standards.
• Build Relationships: Establish and maintain positive working relationships with others both internally and externally to achieve the organizations goals of empowering women and eliminating racism.
• Communicate Effectively: Speak, listen, and write in a clear, thorough, and timely manner using appropriate and effective communication tools and techniques.
• Focus on Guest Needs: Anticipate, understand, and respond to needs of guests.
• Make Decisions: Assess situations to determine the importance, urgency and risks and make clear decisions that are timely and in the best interests of guests and the organization.
• Organization: Set priorities, develop a work schedule, monitor progress towards goals, and track details/data/information/activities.
• Technological Aptitude: Understand software applications and maintain skills necessary to effectively perform key responsibilities through the use of company-utilized programs.

***YWCA St. Joseph provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristics protected by the federal, state, or local laws***