What are the responsibilities and job description for the General Maintenance position at Portage Township Schools?
Job Title: General Maintenance
Department: Building and Grounds
Status: Full time
Summary:
To maintain the grounds throughout the Portage Township School District.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Perform routine maintenance of building interiors, exteriors, and grounds.
- Inspect, maintain, and repair equipment and tools as needed.
- Conduct general repairs, including basic carpentry, painting, plumbing, and electrical work.
- Maintain exterior areas, including sidewalks, parking lots, and landscaped spaces.
- Perform seasonal grounds maintenance, such as mowing, trimming, pruning, snow removal, and salting.
- Operate and maintain equipment such as mowers, tractors, trimmers, and hand tools.
- Ensure compliance with safety standards and regulations.
- Monitor inventory and report the need for supplies or repairs.
- Respond to maintenance requests in a timely and efficient manner.
- Assist with setup and teardown for school events and activities.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the Director of Building and Grounds.
Minimum Qualifications:
- High School diploma or equivalent required.
- 1-3 years of experience in general maintenance equipment.
- Mechanically inclined, ability to move heavy equipment
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Holds a valid driver’s license and has reliable transportation to/from work.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential function of the job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands, push and pull, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl and climb, talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb and balance. The employee must regularly lift and or move items weighing up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move items weighing up to 100 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to focus.
Operates lawn care equipment (zero radius mowers, bath wing tractor, push mowers), string trimmers, edgers, spreads mulch, pick up leaves, branches, twigs and debris.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential function of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in outside weather conditions and is occasionally exposed to wet or dry conditions, fumes or airborne particles, noise and vibration.
Disclaimer:
Responsibilities and tasks outlined in this document are not exhaustive and may change as determined by the needs of the District.
The employee shall remain free of any alcohol or non prescribed controlled substance in the workplace throughout his/her employment in the Corporation.
The employee is expected to adhere to and agree to adhere to all PTS Core Values, as well as PTS District policies and guidelines.
