Maintenance Mechanic 3

The Maintenance Mechanic 3 performs maintenance service and repairs in the areas of plumbing, carpentry, painting, plastering, machine servicing, electrical, or vehicle servicing. Is knowledgeable in the procedures and safety measures in area(s) of specialty.  The position relies on experience and judgment to accomplish responsibilities, works under minimal supervision, while creativity is expected to perform the job, and may lead and direct the work of others.

1. TECHNICAL TASKS
   1. Keeps supervisor informed of activities, needs, and problems.
   2. Takes proper care of tools and equipment.
   3. Performs all work in accordance with codes and good practice.
   4. Turns in all completed work orders by the end of the shift.
   5. Properly performs overhauls on pumps, steam traps, steam valves, etc.
   6. Makes rounds throughout the hospital and corrects minor maintenance deficiencies found.
   7. Recognizes, and reports, equipment that is not working properly.
   8. Reasonably completes all duties scheduled during the workday without interference to the quality of work.
   9. Regularly makes rounds of equipment rooms and observes and records gauge readings and operation condition of equipment.
   10. Periodically tests and adjusts boilers and chillers.
   11. Regularly performs repairs such as replacing worn gaskets, tightening joints, replacing defective meters.
   12. Regularly repairs beds, wheelchairs, tables, etc.
   13. Regularly unclogs drains.
   14. After normal working hours, checks patient owned electrical appliances for safety. Consults with supervisor and biomedical technicians when necessary.
   15. Regularly observes cooling towers for proper operation.
   16. Regularly performs preventive maintenance on all types of equipment to improve operation or extend the life of the equipment.
   17. Ensures that all work is documented on a work order or preventive maintenance record.
2. CRITICAL THINKING
   1. Assumes responsibility for own professional growth and development by attending programs, consulting with manufacturer representatives, and more experienced maintenance personnel.
   2. Regularly adjusts equipment controls to correct malfunctions found by observation or in response to signal.
   3. Regularly demonstrates ability to make moderate to complex repairs of a general maintenance nature without assistance.
   4. Regularly recognizes improper operation of equipment by observation of gauges, meters, vibration, etc.
   5. Determines and solves problems concerning delays in work schedules in an effort to ensure timely and efficient project completion. Inspects work in progress in order to ensure job specification conformance.
3. OTHER DUTIES
   1. Consistently performs 12 organizational Service Standards focused on Values, Service and Quality

• 5 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
• High School Diploma or Equivalent

The Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System is a leading health care innovator in Louisiana and Mississippi. We bring together outstanding clinicians, the most advanced technology and leading research to ensure that our patients receive the highest quality and safest care possible.

This commitment is grounded in a history that is more than 100 years old, but reflected today by our strategic vision of transforming healthcare through superior performance and excellent patient care.
In the last fiscal year, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System had:

• 1,747 Licensed Beds
• 65,322 Discharges
• 44,592 OR Procedures
• 10,827 Full Time Employees
• 331,360 Inpatient Days
• 1,915 Active Medical Staff
• 229,296 Emergency Visits

As a nonprofit, mission-focused Catholic healthcare ministry, we give special attention to our citizens who are most in need. During the most recent fiscal year, we provided more than $39 million in unreimbursed care and community support to the underprivileged.

Our health system is one of the largest in Louisiana, with hospitals, clinics and physicians located throughout Louisiana and in Mississippi. In fact, we provide care to almost half of Louisiana’s citizens, and serve in Mississippi's largest metropolitan area. Because of our size and the partnerships we have with other local organizations, we are able to pool our resources and share cost and service efficiencies and learn from each other, thereby accelerating our ability to improve care and solve challenges.

Since our founding in Monroe, Louisiana in 1911, we have been blessed by the guidance of the Franciscan Sisters. Through their guidance and steadfast example, we have committed to assure that we perpetuate their healing ministry for anot