Maintenance Assistant

Job description

Eden Senior Care, founded in 2016, is a growing Healthcare Management company, focused on managing and operating Skilled Nursing, Rehabilitation and Assisted Living communities in Minnesota, Ohio Wisconsin. Our mission with each community is to support their success by providing strong leadership, corporate support, and the resources and tools to realize their goals. Eden promotes and encourages the success of each of its employees and values the individual experience of its guests and their families.

Position: Maintenance Assistant

Friendly Nursing and Rehab is currently seeking a Maintenance Assistant to assist the daily maintenance functions. The right candidate will ensure the facilities’ equipment and utilities are maintained in good working order and facility grounds are properly maintained.

Job Summary

The primary purpose is to aide and perform the activities of the maintenance department to ensure the center is maintained in good repair and all systems are in compliance with applicable safety and fire regulations and federal, state, and local building codes to ensure a safe, comfortable environment.

Essential Job Functions

Every effort has been made to make our job description as complete as possible. However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or is a logical assignment to the position.

Safety and Sanitation

• Follows established safety policies and procedures.
• Wears and/or uses safety equipment and supplies when indicated and properly trained to use.
• Demonstrates job-specific knowledge of fire and disaster, preparedness during drills or actual situations.

Maintenance Assistant Responsibilities

• Performs regular, scheduled safety inspections. Performs weekly walk-through inspections of high-risk areas.
• Follows all prescribed Life Safety and Preventative Maintenance tasks in TELS as required for federal, state, local, and corporate compliance. Fax/email documentation as required.
• Maintains required logs/documentation on following in accordance with the Life Safety Manual and OSHA compliance including, but not limited to: fire alarm test reports, smoke/heat detectors, sprinkler inspections, emergency generator logs, range hood suppression systems, fire extinguishers, hood and duct cleaning, door locking devices, water temperatures, water hardness fire and smoke wall dampers, fire and smoke doors, fire drills, disaster drills, door alarm drills, flame spread certification, boiler vessel certification, elevator certification, facility service contracts, medical waste manifests, confined space documentation, survey documentation, material safety data sheets, lock out/tag out program.

Performs all routine maintenance and repair work as required, but not limited to:

• Performs daily rounds through entire center and uses acquired information to assist in establishing work priority.
• Accesses daily work orders through the TELS system and prioritizes their completion.
• Maintains electrical and mechanical equipment in good working order; Adjusts functional parts of devices and control instruments, lubricates and cleans parts, as needed. Cleans/changes filters as required based on environment of center.
• Lubricates commode chairs, wheelchairs, shower chairs, wheeled geri-chairs, drug carts, etc. ;
• Repairs outdoor chairs and benches; Reports serious failures and problems to Administrator.
• Investigates causes of wall/door/frame damage, which might be contributed to protruding bolts or etc...... on carts, dollies, or chairs and repair problems.
• Checks light bulbs and exit lights, room temperatures; circuit breakers, temperature in all cooler and freezers, and; nurse call system and makes all necessary adjustments and repairs.
• Cleans lint, dust, and dirt from dryers, vents, and heat registers; Cleans condenser coils in refrigeration units; Cleans ice machines.
• Keeps grounds cleared of debris; Collects and disposes of leaves and refuse in keeping with local code.

Groundskeeping Responsibilities

Maintenance staff is responsible for performing (or overseeing, if contracted) all related work including, but not limited to:

• Mows lawns with hand or power mover; Trims and edges around walks; flower beds, and walls using clippers and edging tools.
• Scatters grass seed or lawn and flower seed on bare spots.
• Plants seeds and bulbs, tree seedlings and shrubbery so that resulting growth will produce attractive appearance.
• Connects sprinkling equipment and water lawn and flower beds (Maintains automatic system if applicable)
• Rakes and bags leaves and grass clippings
• Removes snow and clears ice from sidewalks and walkways.

Education

• High School Diploma

Experience

• Two years of experience in a commercial establishment with knowledge of maintenance procedures.

Physical Demands

• Lifting 50 pounds maximum with frequent lifting, moving, and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 50 pounds; Exerting considerable force frequently, and/or intermediate force constantly to move objects and patients. Reaching, handling, fingering, talking, hearing, visual near acuity, bending, stooping and walking.

Working Conditions

• Both inside and outside including wet and humid conditions; also includes working in conditions involving noise and vibration.

Principal Contacts

• Works with elderly patients, families, and other healthcare staff members.

General Requirements

Must be able to execute the terms and conditions set forth in the employee handbook, including, but not limited to:

• Works in a safety-conscious manner which ensures that safe work practices are used in order not to pose a risk to self or others in the workplace. Reports any safety violations or hazards to supervise.
• Complies with company policies and procedures and local, state, and federal regulations.
• Adheres to policy on Drug-Free Workplace
• Interacts in a tactful, diplomatic, and humanistic manner with patients, families, visitors, and co­ workers to provide a safe, efficient, and therapeutically effective caring environment which ensures the self-respect, personal dignity, rights and physical safety of each patient and facility guest.
• Maintains a dependable attendance record and adheres to standards of cleanliness, grooming, hygiene, and dress code.
• Takes positive action on ensure equal opportunity in the conduct of business activities without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, age, national origin, disability, citizenship, veteran status or any other legally protected category.

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