Porter

Atria Senior Living; Nanaimo; Hybrid; CAD 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Atria Senior Living is seeking a Porter to maintain cleanliness and appeal within the community. You will perform cleaning of offices, apartments, and common areas, along with basic floor care such as vacuuming and buffing to keep spaces neat and safe.

The role supports maintenance requests and helps preserve outdoor areas around the community. The position requires following training programs, operating basic tools, and adapting to varied schedules.

Qualifications

• Must successfully complete all Atria specified training programs.
• Able to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's using basic units.
• Able to safely use basic maintenance and landscape related hand tools and light power tools.
• Able to work various schedules and shifts as needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide cleaning services for offices, apartments, and common areas in a safe, neat, clean condition.
• Perform floor care for carpet, tile, and wood floors including vacuuming and buffing.
• Compact and remove trash and debris from community areas.
• Maintain grounds including sidewalks and garden areas in a neat condition.
• Notify management of repairs and unsafe conditions promptly.

Skills

Math operations

Safety procedures

Shifts flexibility

Use of basic maintenance tools

Education

Atria training programs

Tools

Hand tools

Power tools

Job description

Responsibilities

• Provide cleaning services for business offices, apartments, interior and exterior public and common areas and amenities of the community in a safe, neat, clean and attractive condition.
• Provide floor care services for carpet, tile, and wood floors and may include vacuuming, extracting, buffing, sealing, stripping, etc.
• Compact and remove trash and debris from community areas.
• Maintain all grounds; including sidewalks, public walkways and stairways, building exteriors, garden areas in a neat, clean and attractive condition.
• Performs basic maintenance related work requests.
• Mows lawn, trims shrubbery, and cultivates flowers (varies by community).
• Notifies management concerning need for repairs.
• Reports potentially unsafe conditions promptly to Supervisor.
• Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness in work performed.
• May perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Must successfully complete all Atria specified training programs.
• Able to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's. Able to perform these operations using units of United States’ currency and weight measurement, volume, and distance.
• Able to deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.
• Able to work various schedules and shifts as needed.
• Able to safely use basic maintenance and landscape related hand tools and light power tools, such as shovels, rakes, blowers, mowers, drills, saws, sanders, buffers, vacuuming, extractors, etc.
• Porters will be required to work with caustic materials and cleaning equipment in order to fulfill their job responsibilities. They must be able to understand English well enough to read and comply with safety instructions for proper use of such materials and machinery to protect themselves and others (employees, residents and guests) from injury.