Maintenance Mechanic, Plant Maintenance

Heywood Hospital; Gardner (MA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Heywood Healthcare is seeking personnel for per diem maintenance roles at our facility in Gardner, MA. The position covers a broad range of building and safety tasks, including upkeep, safety compliance and emergency response.

The role requires strong mechanical skills, knowledge of building codes, and a valid driver’s license. It emphasizes teamwork, accuracy, and continuous readiness to address issues that affect patient and staff comfort.

Qualifications

• High school, trade school or vocational school graduate.
• Five to seven years experience in related field.
• Driver’s license required.
• Knowledge of state and local building codes.
• Strong background in mechanical systems.
• Numerical ability, spatial ability, form perception and motor coordination.

Responsibilities

• Interacts with everyone in a friendly, courteous and respectful manner.
• Goes out of their way to offer assistance or find someone who can.
• Advocates for privacy and confidentiality while helping others stay aware.
• Maintains a clean and safe hospital environment.
• Responds quickly in emergency situations.
• Ensures a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors, and staff to minimize risk and injury.
• Complies with regulations to maintain accreditation and licensure.
• Adheres to attendance policies and completes required trainings.
• Reports incidents promptly and effectively.
• Engages in hand hygiene practice for all patient-contact staff.
• Shares knowledge to help others improve performance.
• Keeps stakeholders informed of deadlines and changes.
• Completes and submits requisitions, including costs, to supervisor.
• Performs snow removal duties as assigned.
• Responds to power failures.

Skills

Building codes

Mechanical systems

Numerical ability

Spatial ability

Form perception

Motor coordination

Education

High school, trade school or vocational school graduate

Job description

Overview

You Matter Here!Heywood Healthcare values our employees! We offer competitive wages, great benefits and generous earned time off. Come work where you will matter!

Hours: Per diem

$23.00 - $31.57

Disclaimer:We are committed to equitable and transparent compensation practices. The salary range for this position reflects our good-faith estimate of base pay at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity. We regularly review our compensation structures to ensure fairness and consistency across our organization.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Conducts interactions with everyone in a friendly, courteous and respectful manner.
• Goes out of his/her way to offer assistance to others. If he/she cannot offer assistance, then finds someone who can
• Advocates to ensure privacy and confidentiality while helping others to maintain awareness.
• Maintains a clean and safe hospital
• Responds appropriately and immediately in emergency situations.
• Maintains a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors, and/or staff to provide the highest level of physical comfort, and minimize risk and injury
• Ensures compliance with regulations to maintain accreditation and licensure.
• Complies with the Hospital Attendance and Tardiness Policy
• Completed all Hospital and Department Specific Mandatory requirements in the prior calendar year.
• Reports Incidents in a timely and effective manner
• All employees with direct patient contact are responsible for actively engaging in the practice of, monitoring and enforcing compliance to hand hygiene
• Shares knowledge and expertise to help others improve performance
• Keeps customers, staff, manager, and other departments informed of deadlines and changes.
• Completes 98% of corrective work orders each quarter
• Completes 98% of preventive maintenance that is assigned each month
• Maintains a less than 5% call back rate on all work orders
• Correctly completes all minor construction as assigned
• Completes and submits requisitions, including costs of supplies, to the supervisor
• Performs snow removal duties as assigned
• Responds appropriately to power failures

Statement of Other Duties

This document describes the major duties and responsibilities for this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that employees may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described.

Functional Demands

Physical Requirements

Exerts 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Frequently reaches (extending hands and arms in any direction), handles (seizing, holding, grasping, turning, or working with hands), and identifies and distinguishes colors. Occasionally climbs (ascends or descends ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like), balances (maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching, or running on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces). Occasionally stoops (bending the body downward and forward by bending at the waist, legs and spine), and kneels (bending the legs at knee to come to rest on knee or knees).

Qualifications

Job Requirements:

Minimum Education

• High school, trade school or vocational school graduate

Minimum Work Experience

• Five to seven years experience required

Minimum Licenses and Certifications

• Driver’s license required

Requires Skills

• knowledge of State and local building codes
• Strong background in mechanical systems necessary to perform various duties
• Numerical ability, spatial ability, form perception, and motor coordination is required