Property Maintenance Tech I

The Property Maintenance Tech I is responsible for maintaining and repairing Mental Health

The Property Maintenance Tech I performs a variety of unskilled and semi-skilled manual labor and tasks of routine difficulty on buildings owned and/or operated by the Mental Health Association and the grounds. This position has a shift of 7:30am-4:00pm, Monday – Friday. (Some evenings and weekends, flexibility in scheduling required)

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Picks up trash and performs general cleanup of the common areas.
• Perform a variety of other duties such as moving furniture, appliances, loading and unloading materials and supplies, removing trash, garbage, and debris.
• Perform cleaning duties such as unit preparation, clean and wax floors, and other custodial duties.
• Assist in making ready of housing units. This includes boarding the units, cleaning the inside and outside of units and assisting higher classified employees in the performance of their duties as required.
• Prepare surfaces for painting and repair by cleaning or scraping. Maintain vehicles and equipment.
• Perform general maintenance on trucks and automobiles by lubricating, changing oil and other like tasks.
• Work on individual job assignments or as a member of a work group engaged in activities such as digging and filling holes and trenches, repairing surfaces, painting facilities and equipment, planting shrubs, ornamental plants and trees, watering landscape areas, setting up site protection equipment while work is being completed.
• Repair and maintain walkways, retaining walls, fences, mixing concrete, remove snow and ice and perform other related duties as required by supervisor.
Perform tasks with the use of basic hand tools such as a shovel, hoe, weed eater, lawnmower, furniture dolly and hammer.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Less than high school education and up to one-year related experience or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one- or two-step instructions. Ability to deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.
• Ability to read a limited number of two- and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers. Ability to print and speak simple sentences.
Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.

WORK CONDITIONS & PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Noise level is moderate.
• No environmental hazards are encountered in normal performance of job duties.
• Work requires a flexible work schedule due to internal and external meetings. Occasional travel may be required; must have reliable transportation.
• This position requires the ability to work overtime on weekdays and weekends and may be asked to always respond to emergency calls. Must possess a valid Oklahoma Driver’s License.
• Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing.
• Physical ability to lift and carry 50 pounds.
• Visual and auditory ability to identify and respond to environmental and other hazards of the site and staff behavior.
• Physical mobility and endurance to perform tasks while standing/walking for long periods of time (60 minutes or more).
• Ability to safely and properly use office equipment.