Porter & Grounds Care Specialist

Atria Retirement Canada; Calgary; On-site; CAD 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays & PTO

Anniversary rewards (by location)

Annual scores reward

Health, dental, vision, life insurance

Retirement savings plan / employer 401

Tuition reimbursement (U.S Based)

Job summary

Atria Retirement Canada is seeking a Porter to maintain the cleanliness and appeal of our retirement community. You will clean offices, apartments, and common areas, perform floor care, and help with grounds and light maintenance to ensure a safe, welcoming environment for residents and staff.

Responsibilities include trash removal, lawn care, reporting repairs, and following safety procedures while using basic tools and caustic materials. Training is provided, shifts vary by location.

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 units of U.S. 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 and must understand English well enough to read safety instructions.

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.

Skills

Safety instruction comprehension

Basic math

Tools

Maintenance hand tools

Lawn and landscape tools

Job description

Atria Retirement Canada is seeking a Porter to maintain the cleanliness and appeal of our retirement community. You will clean offices, apartments, and common areas, perform floor care, and help with grounds and light maintenance to ensure a safe, welcoming environment for residents and staff.

Responsibilities include trash removal, lawn care, reporting repairs, and following safety procedures while using basic tools and caustic materials. Training is provided, shifts vary by location.