Skilled Handyman in Chester

Description Summary: Performs activities of maintaining and repairing physical structures of buildings and maintaining grounds throughout The Orchards at Foxcrest by performing the following duties.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Teamwork with the following and all other duties and responsibilities assigned.
• Performs duties such as painting and performing repairs to masonry, woodwork, furnishings, wiring, plumbing, and HVAC in all buildings.
• Adjust work in progress when priority projects change.
• Offers technical assistance when requested.
• Adhere to and maintain organization-wide safety program.
• Assists with the general cleaning, room turnovers, hard floor surfaces, carpeted areas, building entrances, public space, dining rooms, and staff work areas.
• Performs project work such as stripping and waxing floors, carpet extraction, spring cleaning and other general cleaning.
• Coordinates workload, and equipment to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• Documents information required by federal, state, and local authorities pertaining to the environment of care.
• Is courteous and responsive to the needs of the clients using the transportation service and reports any complaints or problems to the supervisor.

Other Responsibilities:

• Performs ground maintenance activities such as mowing lawns, trimming hedges, removing weeds, and raking and disposing of leaves and refuse.
• Creates and maintains relationships with vendors of supplies, parts, and utilities.
• Verifies that items received match those invoiced.
• Suggests changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency.

Requirements:

• Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Qualifications:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Education and/or Experience: High School diploma or equivalent. Requires at least two years of related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Complete annual state mandated training requirements (Regular In-services as well as any external training).
• Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and technical procedure manuals. Ability to present information and respond to questions or complaints from peers, residents, staff, management, subcontractors, and outside business contacts.
• Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to perform these operations when measuring pieces of wood, dry-wall, carpet, wallpaper, and other materials for repairs or installation. Ability to read numbers and interpret different types of meter readings. Ability to apply concepts such as percentages, ratios, and proportions when mixing various solutions or materials and in determining special payroll situations.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions when prioritising projects to be assigned, handling unusual situations that arise during the course of own work or that of subordinates, and in dealing with employee situations. Ability to apply education and experience when dealing with equipment problems or breakdowns, employing standardised or innovative solutions when maintaining and repairing facilities and grounds, and facilitating employee interactions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in written, mathematical, or diagram form (blueprints and schematics).
• Computer Skills: Uses e-mail to communicate with others internally and externally. Individual should also have knowledge of spreadsheet and word processing software for creating reports and correspondence.
• Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations: None
• Other Skills and Abilities: Skills specific for communicating with geriatric residents are needed.
• Medical Screenings: A Physical and Tuberculosis testing are required annually.
• Mental Abilities: The ability to get along with others and engage them in projects. The ability to concentrate for extended periods of time. The ability to shift focus from one task to another. The ability to prioritise tasks effectively.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk throughout the buildings and grounds of The Orchards at Foxcrest. The employee is occasionally required to stand when talking with someone in the hallway or to repair a piece of equipment; sit at a desk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel when repairing equipment and using the telephone or computer; reach with hands and arms for binders or tools and in the course of repairing equipment or doing lawn work; climb or balance on ladders; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl when conducting repairs or assessing the need for repairs and to place items in or get items from low drawers or shelves; talk or hear to give and receive instructions from residents and staff; and smell for unusual odours throughout the complex. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, which is generally tools and equipment for making repairs (i.e., ladders, buckets of paint or materials, sacks of cement, etc.). Specific vision abilities required by this job include: close vision, distance vision, depth perception, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus when driving; close vision and ability to adjust focus for reading meters, repairing small or electronic parts, switching from reading a computer screen or printed document to viewing the office area, and having to alternate from seeing at a distance to items close at hand; and colour vision to see variations in paint or other decor, wiring, and landscaping.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and risk of electrical shock when repairing equipment. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, extreme cold, extreme heat, and other outside weather conditions when having to be outdoors; extreme heat and extreme cold when in some of the equipment rooms or kitchen freezers for repairs; high, precarious places while climbing ladders or needing to be on the roof; fumes or airborne particles from cleaning supplies, exhaust from machinery, and exhaust from other cars when driving; and vibration from machinery. The noise level in the work environment ranges from very quiet in residents' apartments to very loud in the equipment rooms and in traffic.