General Maintenance Worker

General Maintenance Worker

Work where every moment matters. Every day, over 40,000 Hartford HealthCare colleagues come to work with one thing in common: pride in what they do, knowing every moment matters here. We invite you to become part of Connecticut's most comprehensive healthcare network. The Greater Manchester Region has approximately 2,500 employees. It includes Manchester Memorial Hospital, a 249-bed community hospital, Rockville General, a campus of Manchester Memorial Hospital, a 102-bed facility, a large multispecialty provider group and visiting nurse services. The Greater Manchester Region serves a region of 300,000 people in 19 towns. We are a small community hospital where your voice is heard! We believe in sharing ideas and working with staff to create innovative ideas to improve employee engagement and patient care.

Installs, maintains, and repairs machinery, equipment, and structures in accordance with operating manuals, manufacturing specifications, and user's needs. Assists other trades as required. Attends mandatory training and in-services. Cross trains co-workers and other team members as necessary. Keeps work areas, shops and utility rooms neat clean and organized. Obeys environmental requirements for disposal and handling of hazardous and universal wastes and products. Performs repair operations on relative trade systems and components. Coordinates shutdown activity and notifies staff accordingly. Responds, diagnosis, and performs repairs as necessary. Prioritizes work assignments based on needs of hospital. Keeps track of open work orders. Controls backlog of work orders. Periodically, informs supervisor and requesting department of status. Completes assigned Preventive Maintenance work orders per priority and risk assessed order of importance. Completes paperwork including Daily work summary, shutdown notices, utility system failure occurrences, rounds sheets, time off requests. Maintains and uses all department tools and equipment as established in Policies and Procedures and manufactures recommendation. Maintains inventory of parts and materials for daily repairs and to expedite emergency repairs, PM's and projects. Complies with the department and hospital safety policies and procedures and contributes to the overall safe operation of the hospital facility. Complies with safety policies including Fire plan, code response, MSDS, Utility Management Plans, LOTO, conf space, fall protection, etc. Support on call and emergency response as required. Assist snow coverage as required. Works with Department Directors/Managers to address, schedule, complete, provide status on projects, repairs and PMs to keep the respective departments informed of the activity. Competent in trade specific knowledge, responsibility and duties.

Qualifications: High School Diploma or GED equivalent is desired but not required. Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license and an acceptable driving record in accordance with organizational policy. Must have a minimum of five (5) years of experience in the field of general maintenance work. COMPETENCIES: Must be knowledgeable of Mechanical Systems, preferably obtained by a trade school or apprenticeship. Must have basic personal computer skills.