Maintenance and Grounds Technician

Position Summary

The Maintenance Technician is responsible for maintaining and cleaning common areas, around all facilities and grounds.

Essential Responsibilities

• Manages outside environment including mowing, plants, landscaping, building maintenance, and repair.
• Communicates with appropriate staff if an area is out of use.
• Performs repair of facility, vehicle, or grounds in a timely manner.
• Manages the safety and risk reduction of facilities and vehicles through maintaining safety equipment, managing hazardous materials, maintaining and inspecting fire safety equipment and utilities.
• Performs repair and maintenance of building, including but not limited to:
• Minor plumbing repairs
• Maintaining smoke detectors and air conditioning filters
• Caulking, tile repair, wall repair, touch up paint, and grout

• Performs maintenance of grounds keeping in a timely manner, including but not limited to:

• Mowing, edging, trimming grass, hedges, and trees
• Planting, watering, weeding, mulching flower beds and rock beds
• Maintaining ponds and fountains
• Maintaining walkways, sprinklers, decks, gutters, patios, and exterior lighting

Performs and/or coordinates housekeeping.

• Manages the safety and risk reduction of facilities and vehicles through maintaining safety equipment, managing hazardous materials, maintaining and inspecting fire safety equipment and utilities.
• Ensures safe disposal and storage of all materials in resident areas to limit access by residents.
• Wears personal protective equipment when using power tools, chemicals or as needed.

Additional Responsibilities

• Can be relied upon to be at work as scheduled and is rarely absent from work, notifying the supervisor if absent.
• Demonstrates an ability to adapt to changes in the facility function, management styles, and facility routines.
• Reads, understands, and adheres to all company policy statements on ethics, conduct, and conflict of interests.
• Adheres to facility policies, procedures, rules and regulations, implementing regularly.

• Other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

• High school graduate or equivalency required. Trade or vocational school training preferred.
• Previous experience in maintenance or grounds keeping preferred
• Current CPR/First Aid Certification
• Required valid Driver’s License

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to communicate with peers/general public, clients and/or vendors
• Job performance will require the ability to move throughout the building as well as sit or remain stationary for extended periods of time
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be required to talk or hear, sit, stand, walk, reach, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, taste or smell.
• Ability to move 50 pounds.

Skill Competencies

• Must be able to operate mechanical equipment used for ground keeping.
• Perform other duties as may be assigned by the Facilities Manager.

Renaissance Health Care, Smoky Mountain Lodge. provides equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, creed, ancestry, national origin, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, genetic information, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment.Renaissance Health Care, Smoky Mountain Lodge reserves the rights to modify, interpret, or apply this job description in any way the organization desires. This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties, including essential duties, to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities. This job description is not an employment contract, implied or otherwise. The employment relationship remains “At-Will.”

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $17.00 - $19.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Experience:

• Maintenance: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• Driver's License (Preferred)

Work Location: One location