Porter

Atria Senior Living, Inc; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A senior living community in Ottawa is seeking a dedicated individual to provide cleaning and maintenance services. Responsibilities include cleaning offices and public areas, maintaining grounds, and ensuring safety compliance. The ideal candidate will successfully complete training, have basic math skills, and be able to safely use hand tools and cleaning equipment. This role is vital to maintaining a safe and attractive environment for residents and guests.

Qualifications

• Must complete all Atria specified training programs.
• Must safely use maintenance and landscaping tools.
• Must understand English for safety instructions.

Responsibilities

• Provide cleaning services for offices and common areas.
• Maintain grounds including sidewalks and gardens.
• Report repairs and unsafe conditions to management.

Skills

Basic math skills

Ability to use hand tools

Understanding of safety instructions

Tools

Light power tools

Cleaning equipment

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.