Maintenance Assistant - Assisted Living

The Arbors at Taunton is looking for a positive, knowledgeable person to join the Maintenance/Housekeeping team. If you enjoy working in an environment that is friendly and enjoy supporting seniors, this is a great team oriented place to be.

This is a 24 hour position including every other weekend. It is a benefited part time position.

Position includes on-call responsibilities.

The Maintenance Assistant will support maintenance and housekeeping functions within the assisted living community, and provide support to the Facilities Director. The Maintenance Assistant will have a hands-on (specific to electrical, carpentry, painting, general maintenance, and custodial duties) role in the overall operation of the community along with administrative duties.

Essential Functions

The following are the duties and responsibilities of the Maintenance Assistant:

• Promotes the mission values and philosophy of the Arbors
• Provides exceptional customer service to every resident, family member and guest
• Follows the direction of the Facilities Director to ensure the building is clean and safe.
• Demonstrates exceptional attention to detail.
• Responsible for deep cleaning of common areas of the building, following the Arbors cleaning schedule.
  
  

This includes but is not limited to, high and low dusting, furniture polishing, paint touch up and floor care.

• Provides on-call assistance to the property on scheduled days and at other times as needed.
• Weekend hours are required.
• Assists with cleaning apartments as needed including without limitation when housekeepers are unavailable.
• Responsible for snow removal on scheduled days and at other times as needed.
• Removes trash from building on scheduled days and at other times as needed.
• Assists with performance of routine building, property, and grounds maintenance and repairs, including without limitation painting, plumbing, carpentry, HVAC systems maintenance, and snaking and unclogging toilets and drains as a priority to prevent further damage or flooding.
• Assists with apartment turnovers as assigned by Facilities Director.
• Assists with work orders as assigned by Facilities Director.
• Responds to emergency calls for maintenance and repairs.
• Diagnoses and troubleshoots issues to determine necessary repairs.
• Complies with all safety and health regulations.
• Completes administrative duties, such as filling out forms and reporting maintenance statuses to Facilities Director.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Facilities Director or Executive Director.
  
  

Assists with completion and filing of all warranty information and maintaining of maintenance manual

Assists in maintaining service logs for all maintenance work and filed per location, date, time and apartment service area

Ensures work area is free of hazardous conditions and ensures safety rules and regulations are adhered

• Assists Facilities Director in engaging in the prescribed preventative maintenance program
  
  

Completes sidewalk, emergency exit snow removal, and laying down salt and sand for safety, in all foot traffic areas around the building

Assists in inventorying all maintenance and housekeeping supplies, and their secure storage

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Assists in maintaining current material data safety (MDS) binder

• Participates in staff training and general orientation
• Possesses an understanding of all applicable life safety regulations
• Takes a team approach to performing duties
• Completes all in-service training requirements in accordance with Arbors Policy and Procedures and Executive Office of Elder Affairs training requirements, and attends monthly staff meetings
• As a Universal Worker performs duties required to enhance the resident’s environment and of life.
• Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of this position