Facilities Assistant - Part Time

Maintenance Assistant / Facilities Assistant - Part time Join our community as a part-time Facilities Assistant, where you can make a lasting impact on the lives of our treasured residents by ensuring their home remains safe, comfortable and well-maintained. This shift is for Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays with a flexible schedule. Weekends and holidays are required. **Essential Functions** Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. - Ensures residents’ comfort by responding to work orders in a positive, timely manner. - Monitors temperatures of hot water and refrigerators to ensure safety for residents. - Paints rooms and touch-ups as assigned. - Repairs roof, floors, and walls as assigned. - Assists in moving residents to different rooms. - Maintains grounds that reflect an open, welcoming impression to individuals passing by and entering the building. - Handles, manipulates and properly stores maintenance, housekeeping, and lawn chemicals following safety policies and procedures. - Constantly looks for unsafe items and removes appropriately. - Uses safety and infection control policies and procedures in all duties. - Maintains confidentiality of residents’ personal information in and out of the community and protects and supports residents’ rights. - Assists in the final inspection of resident’s apartment before move-in to ensure all appliances, heater, air conditioner, light bulbs, tub/shower and toilet are in working order. Ensures cleanliness of carpets, walls, floors, cabinets, and appliances. Follows up as required. - Maintains a professional appearance by wearing clean, pressed uniform and a demeanor that encourages a positive nurturing environment for the residents, families, vendors, and guests. - Ensures adequate daily coverage for meal service by communicating with the Culinary Services Director and/or Host/Hostess, to include taking resident orders for meals, providing drink refills according to residents’ / guests’ requests, assists with the cleaning, resetting and preparation of the dining room in-between mealtimes. - Works on special projects and other duties as assigned. - **Managerial Breadth/Scope of Job** #### There are no supervisory requirements for this position. **Knowledge/Skills/Abilities** - Demonstrates a SERVANT heart and attitude by following our Mission Statement. - Must be knowledgeable of the location of the MSDS sheets on hazardous materials and able to understand the guidelines. - Knowledge of local, state, and federal regulatory systems for safety and facilities management. - Maintains a positive customer service environment and practices honesty and integrity in all aspects of performance. - Communicates with residents, families, visitors and staff in a positive manner using excellent customer service skills. - Ability to make minor and major repairs and paint. - Must possess interpersonal skills to communicate with residents and staff. - Must show compassion and genuinely care for the elderly and disabled. - Must be able to work independently and prioritize workload as emergencies arise. - Must be able to effectively communicate with vendors, contractors, and emergency personnel. - Knowledge of use of hand tools, tractors, lawn equipment, carpet cleaners, and other housekeeping and maintenance equipment. - Must maintain a current driver’s license and comply with all requirements of our Auto Policy. **Education/Experience** High school diploma or equivalent preferred. **Working Environment/Physical Requirements** Moderate physical activity is required by handling objects up to 50 pounds occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently. Must be able to bend, stoop, and handle bulky objects. Must be able to work inside and outside in extreme weather conditions. *Applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.*