Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Follows prescribed procedures and services, operates and/or maintains facility heating, cooling, plumbing, minor electric and other mechanical equipment with assistance from Mechanic III when needed.
• Conducts equipment rounds taking temperatures, inspecting equipment, repairing equipment as need and notifies supervisor or director if outside contractor is needed
• Performs preventative maintenance throughout the building.
• Completes necessary daily log paperwork when completing tasks.
• Makes routine repairs to building, mechanical equipment and grounds.
• Is responsible for cleaning and maintaining of the grounds, watering of plants, landscaping and coordinating with outside vendors for related services as directed by supervisor.
• Safely operates power tools using personal protective equipment.
• Completes assigned work orders in an efficient and timely manner.
• Uses necessary safety precautions for oxygen usage; lock out tag out of equipment, use of fire prevention equipment, and other safety precautions as needed.
• Ensures safety of residents, staff and visitors by understanding, communicating and complying with safety and security procedures.
• Attends required in-services and training sessions, including online trainings.
• Other duties as assigned.

Corporate Compliance

• Complies with safety policies and procedures.
• Adheres to laws regarding the protection, use, disclosure, and release of client and CJE business information.
• Attends required in services; Reports violations of law, regulations, policies, or procedures.
• Reports client abuse or neglect; Records documentation timely, accurately, and completely.
• This position has responsibility for HIPAA compliance.
• Exposure to bloodborne pathogens is not likely to occur in this position.

Qualifications : To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• High school diploma or GED
• Must be able to read and write English
• Minimum of 2 years of related maintenance experience including the operation and maintenance of HVAC and boiler machinery and equipment.
• Working knowledge of plumbing, carpentry, mechanical and electric repairs.
• Previous experience working in a healthcare environment preferred.
• Weekend availability required.

Additional Skills:

• Carpentry skills.
• Move, disassemble and assemble furniture as assigned.
• Experience with mechanical breakdowns and repairs faucets, toilets, convectors, and electrical outlets.
• Ability to use a variety of hand tools.
• Perform low voltage electrical repairs.
• Assemble equipment.
• Repair door locks, hinges, wheelchairs and other equipment.
• Ensures that the building is meeting regulation standards. Has knowledge of building life safety code IDPH, OSHA, and local fire department.

Language Skills

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands :
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Must have physical coordination, dexterity, agility and mobility and be able to safely and properly utilize and transport tools, supplies and equipment properly.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to walk various distances, stand, talk and hear.
• The employee is required to stoop, kneel or crawl; and to climb stairs and ladders while balancing objects.
• The employee must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Must have specific visual ability and acuity, including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception, as required to ensure safe, accurate, and timely performance of duties.

Customer Service
Displays behavior that creates a customer service culture at CJE by understanding the needs of our clients and customers and demonstrating a strong bias toward service, quality and customer satisfaction.
CJE Values
All staff should demonstrate the CJE Values in their behaviors and work practices.

• Respect-We recognize, honor, and acknowledge the inherent value of each person for their wisdom, their culture, their background and their unique history.
• Advocacy-We encourage public policy which will benefit our clients by educating ourselves and the community. Furthermore, we give voice to our clients' needs and facilitate positive action on their behalf.
• Compassion-We treat everyone with caring, sensitivity, understanding, and supportive responsiveness.
• Innovation-We continue to advance our knowledge and strive to develop, evaluate, and implement new and advanced programming and models of care to bring benefits to our clients, community and broader older adult/health care environment.
• Intention-We approach our work and each task with mindful consideration as to what we are doing and why we are doing it, as individuals and as an agency.
• Accountability-We are responsible individually and as an Agency for honest, accurate work and interaction with others. We plan strategically and provide measurable quality care with clear fiscal and ethical responsibility.

CJE SeniorLife is an equal opportunity employer.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)