Job description

Title: Maintenance Level 1-Entry Level (Custodian, Landscaper, Laborer)

Department: Maintenance

Supervisor: Maintenance Supervisor

FLSA: Non-Exempt

Duties and Responsibilities

Responsible for assisting in maintaining dwelling units and grounds for one or more of

Authority’s housing developments. Performs a variety of routine carpentry and electrical repairs in response to service requests and inspection of units. The following are specific duties, under supervision:

· Under minimal supervision, repairs or replaces wiring and parts for electrical outlets, switches, light fixtures, and breaker switches/fuses.

· Repairs or replaced plumbing fixtures and fittings such as leaky faucets, clogged drains and sewer lines, damaged toilets, sinks and water cutoffs.

· Makes minor carpentry repairs/replacements to damaged walls, roofs, woodwork, floors, gutters and downspouts, garage doors, doors, and door locks, windows, cabinets, doorbells, peepholes, and clotheslines.

· Performs landscaping such as trimming trees, picking up litter, mowing lawns and snow removal.

· Performs apartment painting and cleaning duties and including restrooms, office areas, trash rooms, boiler rooms, halls, stairways, and sidewalks.

· Performs other related duties as required.

Qualifications and Knowledge

· High school graduate or GED. One year experience in building maintenance or vocational training which involved training and/or experience in areas of carpentry and electrical repairs as an equivalent combination of education and experience.

· Skills in the use of various hand and power tools.

· Ability to read and understand repair manuals, and instructions/warnings on cleaning agents; write service requests, maintenance reports, and inspection reports.

· Ability to write legibly.

· Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other Authority employees and residents.

· Valid Ohio driver’s license.

· Eligibility for coverage under the Authority fleet auto insurance.

Supervision Received and Given

The employee receives instruction from the Maintenance Supervisor. Generally, methods of accomplishing assignments are at the discretion of the employee within established procedures and repair manual guides. Deadlines and priorities are set by the supervisor and the employee’s progress in monitored regularly. The employee’s work is reviewed generally for neatness and completeness.

The employee does not have any supervisory responsibilities.

Guidelines

The employee follows established maintenance procedures and practices and service manuals in performing assigned tasks. If a situation not covered by guidelines arises, the employee consults the supervisor for guidance.

Complexity

Work performed by the employee is mostly routine and repetitive in nature.

Occasionally, some tasks may require the exercise of personal judgment in making decisions on accomplishing assigned work.

Scope and Effect

The employee’s work primarily affects the residents in the housing development to which the employee is assigned. It also impacts on the adequacy of total low-rent housing provided by the Authority. Through successful accomplishment of maintenance tasks, the Authority is able to continue to provide decent, safe and sanitary housing.

Personal Contacts

The employee’s personal contacts are primarily with the residents and other employees.

Contacts with the residents are particularly important. The purpose of this is to give and obtain information necessary to do the maintenance tasks efficiently and safely and document all actions. Conditions under which contacts occur can range from normal too stressful in an emergency situation, such as a gas leak or a power failure.

Physical Demands

The employee must operate hand and power tools and equipment. Normal physical activity can be strenuous and may involve prolonged standing, walking, reaching, bending, crouching, stooping, and lying prone. The employee must use arm strength to manipulate hand tools such as saws, sanders, and jointers. The employee must occasionally push, pull, and/or lift up to and over 50lbs.

Work Environment

The employee works indoors and outdoors and is exposed to weather extremes. The employee may occasionally be subject to electrical shock hazards, dangerous heights, dangerous chemicals, and skin irritants (e.g. cleaning solutions, solvents, insecticides).

The employee may be required to use goggles, gloves, safety boots, and other safety equipment.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $15.57 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Physical setting:

• Outdoor work

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Afternoon shift
• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• On call
• Weekend availability

Work Location: One location

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