Location
Shelby, IA | United States
Job description
Maintenance Associate - Shelby, IA
Pay Rate: $20.00/hr
REM Community Services is hiring a
Maintenance Associate!
The Maintenance Associate arranges the maintenance of the physical facility, grounds, and all equipment with established vendors to ensure a safe, attractive, and enjoyable living environment for the individuals receiving services.
Qualifications:
- Maintains ongoing preventative maintenance programs such as changing furnace filters, small drywall repair, and small painting projects to touch up or paint a bedroom for a new admit.
- Calls the appliance repair man and if replacement is needed goes and buys a new item e.g. refrigerator for delivery/set up, housekeeping such as clogged toilet plunging, cleaning up overflows,
- Maintain good working relations with external vendors such as electricians, plumbers, and general contractors as needed.
- Submits Orders for maintenance supplies to the office coordinator and requests more when inventory is low.
- Provides necessary maintenance of all tools and small equipment such as replacing belts on a sander, and possibly changing the oil in the snow blower. – REM Community Services is able to contract this out if needed
- Schedules fire alarm system maintenance for smoke and heat detectors, fire pulls, and fire extinguishers. Contracts out maintenance of sprinkler systems and assists with quarterly inspections.
- Assists in monthly fire drills.
- Monitors and assists in basic maintenance of facility vehicles - will take to the dealership for repairs and maintenance.
- Maintains operational records, and data and monitors and enforces observance of safety regulations. for inspections.
- Performs other related duties and activities as required.
What you will bring to REM Iowa/Sevita:
- High School diploma or equivalent and one year of related experience.
- Some working knowledge and ability to handle simple maintenance and electrical equipment. REM Community Services has a contact established with vendors for large requests.
- Will travel to the Children’s facility in CB at least once a week or as needed via company van. Will have a company credit card for purchases
- Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Apply today and explore careers, well-lived at Sevita!
About Sevita: Homes and communities are where people thrive. We’ve held this belief since our founding in 1967 and have worked to make it reality for the thousands of individuals we serve. We continue that work today and are using innovation, technology, and collaboration across our organization to do more for more people.Every person has the right to live well.Sevita, formerly The MENTOR Network, is the leading provider of home and community-based specialty health care, with 45,000 employees proudly serving over 55,000 individuals. We believe that people can grow, learn, and be as independent as possible in the homes and communities where they live.We serve adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, individuals with complex care needs, people recovering from brain injury, children in foster care, adults and children with autism, and other individuals who may require care across a lifetime.Our goal is to enable these individuals to be as independent as possible and to live and thrive in their communities. It’s what we’ve done for more than 50 years, and it’s what we continue to do today.
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$20 per hour
