Maintenance Worker: School Setting

Job Description

Job Description

Maintenance Worker

Starting salary: $37,500

Job Description – Fulfillment of Mission

The Roger Bacon Academy is an education management organization that manages multiple award-winning public charter schools in southeastern North Carolina including Classical Charter Schools of Whiteville that serves students in grades K - 8.  We are seeking outstanding applicants for a Maintenance Worker. 

The following mission outlines the expectations of all employees at the school level as well as employees of The Roger Bacon Academy in providing support to the schools.

Our understandings of humankind and our universe are expressed and communicated through all of our arts and sciences.  Each method of expression – language, painting, music, mathematics, and science – has its rules and techniques for effectively communicating these ideas and understandings.

These rules and techniques are the bridges over which ideas must be communicated from one generation to the next.

Thus, our Mission is:

• To teach the rules and techniques for effective expression and communication in the arts and sciences.
• To communicate, by these arts and sciences, our understandings of the universe and our role in it.
• To instill a love of learning and discovery justifying a lifelong dedication to health, truth, and virtue.

Paramount for every job at every level on every campus is the fulfillment of this Mission.

Job Priorities

This Mission is furthered in accordance with the priorities observed in all aspects of school life:  Safety, Character, and Scholarship and an unfailing adherence to the School Pledge.

Maintenance – Job Responsibilities

Purpose:

A Maintenance worker performs a variety of manual activities including cleaning and maintaining buildings.  The employee performs a variety of duties in accordance with established practices and cleaning schedules. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Moves and arranges furniture both for classrooms as well as general purpose rooms/auditorium.
• Assembles furniture upon arrival as needed.
• Assists with installation of HVAC units located throughout the building.
• Performs roof repairs with appropriate materials to prevent leakage in building.
• Transports curriculum orders and classroom supplies to designated locations, as needed.
• Performs plumbing repairs including replacing toilets and urinals.

• Scrubs, dusts, sweeps, mops, vacuums, waxes and polishes floors in rooms, hallways and closets.
• Washes windows, woodwork, walls and other surfaces.
• Scrubs and cleans rest room fixtures.
• Maintains inventory, control of supplies and maintenance of equipment to operate interior maintenance.
• Replenishes tissue, towels, and soap in rest rooms, kitchens and classroom facilities.
• Replaces light bulbs and florescent tubes.
• Polices all trash and debris inside and on the grounds.
• Lawn, flower bed and external landscaping.
• Ensure sidewalks and external entrances clear of debris and safe for students and guests.
• General cleanliness and repair of ceilings, windows, walls, floors, and desks.
• Empties wastebaskets and other refuse receptacles.
• Locks and unlocks doors and gates.
• Sorts and stores material for recycling program.
• Makes minor repairs to furniture or facilities.
• Reports to supervisor damages or needed repairs requiring outside attention.
• Turns heating and air conditioning equipment on and off.
• Performs routine maintenance on heating and air conditioning systems.
• Records and reports all hazards and safety issues to be addressed and added to maintenance lists with Office Manager, then Headmaster.

Qualifications

The Maintenance will have the following experience and attributes:

• Knowledgeable of OSHA standards and requirements
• Working knowledge of cleaning methods, materials and equipment.
• Some knowledge of procedures to operate heating and air conditioning equipment.
• Skill in the use of small equipment used in routine cleaning and landscaping.
• Ability to maintain positive working relations.
• Ability to perform duties without interrupting ongoing classes/teachers unless specified or an emergency.
• Able to climb stairs and meet physical demands of the job without the use of an elevator.
• Able to climb an extension ladder to perform certain job duties.
• Ability to understand and follow simple oral or written directions.
• Physical ability to lift/carry 20 lbs and dexterity to perform the duties and responsibilities of the job.