Maintenance Worker

SUMMARY

Purpose ........ This position is responsible for all maintenance, repair, and upkeep activities of Bear Creek Memory Care Community including managing housekeeping staff and communicating with Bear Creek on all appropriate matters.

Scope ............ It is understood that the Maitenance Director supports the philosophy of Bear Creek :

• To create environments that respect the emotional, physical spiritual, and intellectual needs of our residents.
• To attract, retain, and develop exceptional staff
• To create communities that define exceptional customer service
• Manage our individual communities in a professional manner in meeting financial expectations, and resident satisfaction.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Required ................

• Leadership through planning, directing, controlling, communicating and coaching. This position requires strong written and verbal communication skills, strong personnel skills and positive community relation skills to be succesful.
• Excellent written, verbal, grammatical and punctuation skills.
• Must be self-motivated and have the ability to work independently and make decisions.
• Excellent organization skills; detail orientated
• Pleasant, professional and personal matter

$20 - $25

DUTIES

Typical ......

• Preventative Maintenance Program: The Maintenance Director is responsible for a building-wide preventative maintenance program designed to keep all equipment in good working order. This includes the HVAC system, fire, alarm system, emergency call system, generator, kitchen equipment, irrigation system, sprinkler system, and outside walkways, Maintenance Director will conduct quarterly walk throughs to identify areas of concern and those needing attention
• Repair and Maintenance of building, equipment, and surrounding grounds: The Maintenance Director is responsible for following a system where work orders are prioritized and completed to meet the standards of Bear Creek and owners as well as resident satisfaction. This includes all safety hazards identified by the walk-through
• Supervising the Housekeeping Staff: The Maintenance Director supervises all Maintenance Department Personnel and Housekeeping department personnel. This responsibility includes screening, hiring, training, coaching, scheduling, and supervising all staff in the Maintenance and Housekeeping departments. The Maintenance Director is responsible for taking corrective action with staff for poor performance, coaching to improve skills, managing activities to correspond with operational needs, and appropriate documentation and compliance with all human resource guidelines. The Maintenance Director performs all necessary verbal and written disciplinary actions required of policies and procedures, The Maintenance Director assures that all staff maintains appropriate annual training to maintain state requirements. The Maintenance Director is responsible for scheduling and monitoring all staff labor within the budget of the building
• Turning around vacated units and reading them for new residents: The Maintenance Director is responsible for reviewing all the rooms when a resident moves out and determining what needs to be done to make it ready for a new resident. The Maintenance Director is responsible for patching and painting walls, cleaning carpets, and painting walls where necessary, Move in and move out room checklists will be used for this purpose, and discussions with the Executive Director on any issues related to the apartment is vital
• Safety Compliance: The Maintenance Director is responsible for ensuring that they and any employees reporting to them work in a safe manner and that unsafe actions are to be managed. Compliance with safety committee Standards is required. Should workplace injuries occur, the Department Heads and directors are to assist the Executive Director when required with the investigation, return to work, and management of the injured worker's communication with care provider and Bear Creek
• Team Effectiveness: The Maintenance Director is responsible for fostering teamwork with co-workers, showing initiative in overcoming obstacles, taking actions which assist others beyond this job responsibilities, and having a positive impact on co-workers, residents, and visitors

Education and licensing

• High school diploma

Experience

• Must have proven management experience and ability to manage staff
• Minimum three years experience as maintenance staff
• Experience with Microsoft word and excel

Physical Requirements

• Sitting, walking, bending, data entry, reading, written and verbal communication, and lifting up to 50lbs. Able to paint and vacuum, climb into attics, and perform work off a ladder

We are a small memory care community in Molalla, Oregon designed to care exclusively for those experiencing Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.

Our community consists of up to a maximum of 68 residents. We provide individualized care plans which means each person will receive attentive and detailed care specific to their needs.

Our Bear Creek family has a full-time nurse as well as a care team able to assist with activities of daily living 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

In these challenging times, we want to bring families peace of mind that their loved ones will be treated with respect, kindness, and compassion in a safe and secure environment, while strictly adhering to all state rules and regulations.

We lead with compassion and believe in providing as much individual attention and interaction as possible. Communication and teamwork are pillars of our commitment to care for each resident and their changing needs.