Porter

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

Job summary

Atria Senior Living, Inc is seeking a Porter to provide essential cleaning and maintenance services for a senior living community in Whitby, Canada. The role involves ensuring the cleanliness of various community areas, performing basic maintenance tasks, and using cleaning and landscaping tools effectively. Ideal candidates will have attention to detail, basic maintenance skills, and the ability to follow safety instructions. This position requires flexibility in schedules and will provide opportunities for training.

Qualifications

• Able to work various schedules and shifts as needed.
• Must understand English well enough to read safety instructions.

Responsibilities

• Provide cleaning services for business offices, apartments, and common areas.
• Perform basic maintenance related work requests and grounds upkeep.
• Notify management concerning need for repairs.

Skills

Attention to detail

Basic maintenance skills

Ability to follow safety instructions

Education

Completion of Atria specified training programs

Tools

Basic maintenance tools

Landscape related 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.