Facilities Assistant - $500 Sign on Bonus!

Join our community as a full-time Facilities Assistant, where you can make a lasting impact on the lives of our treasured residents by ensuring their home remains safe, comfortable, and well-maintained.  Occasional on call. $500 Sign on Bonus!

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ensures residents’ comfort by responding to work orders in a positive, timely manner.
• Monitors temperatures of hot water and refrigerators to ensure safety for residents.
• Paints rooms and touch-ups as assigned.
• Repairs roof, floors, and walls as assigned.
• Assists in moving residents to different rooms.
• Maintains grounds that reflect an open, welcoming impression to individuals passing by and entering the building.
• Handles, manipulates and properly stores maintenance, housekeeping, and lawn chemicals following safety policies and procedures.
• Constantly looks for unsafe items and removes appropriately. 
• Uses safety and infection control policies and procedures in all duties.
• Maintains confidentiality of residents’ personal information in and out of the community and protects and supports residents’ rights.
• Assists in the final inspection of resident’s apartment before move-in to ensure all appliances, heater, air conditioner, light bulbs, tub/shower and toilet are in working order.  Ensures cleanliness of carpets, walls, floors, cabinets, and appliances.  Follows up as required.
• Maintains a professional appearance by wearing clean, pressed uniform and a demeanor that encourages a positive nurturing environment for the residents, families, vendors, and guests.
• Ensures adequate daily coverage for meal service by communicating with the Culinary Services Director and/or Host/Hostess, to include taking resident orders for meals, providing drink refills according to residents’ / guests’ requests, assists with the cleaning, resetting and preparation of the dining room in-between mealtimes.
• Works on special projects and other duties as assigned.

Managerial Breadth/Scope of Job

• There are no supervisory requirements for this position

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Demonstrates a SERVANT heart and attitude by following our Mission Statement.
• Must be knowledgeable of the location of the MSDS sheets on hazardous materials and able to understand the guidelines.
• Knowledge of local, state, and federal regulatory systems for safety and facilities management.
• Maintains a positive customer service environment and practices honesty and integrity in all aspects of performance.
• Communicates with residents, families, visitors and staff in a positive manner using excellent customer service skills.
• Ability to make minor and major repairs and paint.
• Must possess interpersonal skills to communicate with residents and staff.
• Must show compassion and genuinely care for the elderly and disabled.
• Must be able to work independently and prioritize workl