Maintenance and Grounds Technician PRN

Maintenance and Grounds Technician PRN

Who We Are:

The Smoky Mountain Lodge at Pasadena Villa is a residential psychiatric treatment center in the beautiful Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Our compassionate, dedicated staff fosters an environment of healing. By providing treatment for the full spectrum of mental health disorders, we ensure that clients are well prepared for life after treatment.

What We Offer:

• Collaborative environment dedicated to clinical excellence
• 100% Company Paid EAP Emotional Well-Being Support
• 401K with Company Match

How You Will Contribute:

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

Relationships and Contacts:

Within the organization: Initiates and maintains frequent and close working relationships with all employees.

Outside the organization: Initiates and maintains frequent and close working relationships with community partners and company vendors.

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, 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, trees, planting, watering, weeding, mulching flower beds and rock beds, maintaining ponds and fountains.
• Maintains 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 Client areas to limit access by clients
• Wears personal protective equipment when using power tools, chemicals or as needed.

Qualifications

What We’re Seeking:

• Requires valid Driver’s License, vehicle liability coverage and acceptable driving record.
• Requires a current CPR/First Aid certification
• Requires a high school diploma or equivalent.  Trade or vocational school training preferred.
• Previous experience in maintenance or grounds keeping preferred

Pasadena Villa 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. Pasadena Villa 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.”