Maintenance Technician

The Broward Partnership; Florida; On-site; USD 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team as a Maintenance Technician, where you’ll play a crucial role in maintaining a safe and welcoming environment for clients. Your responsibilities will include performing essential maintenance tasks, ensuring the facility is clean and functional, and providing safe transportation for clients to their appointments. This role emphasizes teamwork and community engagement, allowing you to make a meaningful impact in the lives of those experiencing homelessness. If you are skilled in various maintenance trades and are passionate about helping others, this position offers a fulfilling opportunity to contribute to a vital cause.

Qualifications

• Experience using power tools and equipment is required.
• Ability to lift, push, pull, and move heavy items up to 50lbs.

Responsibilities

• Perform maintenance work to ensure a clean and safe environment.
• Transport clients safely to appointments and activities.
• Supervise maintenance work completed by clients.

Skills

Plumbing

Mechanical skills

Carpentry

Electrical work

Manual dexterity

Safe driving

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Craft apprenticeship or equivalent experience

Tools

Power tools

Electric meters

Material handling equipment

Job description

Description

I. JOB SUMMARY:

The Maintenance Technician installs, troubleshoots, repairs, and maintains facility and equipment according to safety, forecasting and preventive maintenance schedule and systems. The Maintenance Technician provides safe transportation for clients in agency vehicles to various appointments within the community. The Maintenance Technician assist with loading and unloading products when picking up or delivering donated goods and assisting clients moving into their own homes. The Maintenance Technician coordinates and supervises work completed by clients residing at the Homeless Assistance Center. The Maintenance Technician understands that Broward County follows a Housing First model and that all clients’ experience with homelessness should be rare, brief, and non-recurring.

II. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Maintains grounds and landscape areas in order to ensure they are presentable, clean and safe.

2. Performs a variety of maintenance work in order to ensure a clean, safe environment for the clients, staff, and visitors. Minimizes major repair/replacement costs and extends the useful life of equipment and fixtures.

3. Maintains a variety of landscape and construction related equipment and performs preventative maintenance in order to ensure that the equipment operates safely and appropriately when needed.

4. Provides emergency and / or unscheduled repairs of equipment, ensuring minimum disruption of daily activities.

5. Moves a variety of furniture and related items in order to relocate/rearrange work stations/offices, set up for meetings, activities and events.

6. Performs a variety of plumbing, mechanical, carpentry, and basic electrical work.

7. Maintains floors and waxes on a regular basis.

8. Diagnoses problems replaces or repairs parts, tests and make adjustments.

9. Uses a variety of hand power tools, electric meters and material handling equipment in performing duties.

10. Coordinates and supervises maintenance and janitorial work that is completed by clients residing at the Homeless Assistance Center.

11. Manages and coordinates emergency and/or scheduled repairs of equipment, ensuring minimum disruption of daily activities.

12. Detects faulty operations, defective material and reports those and any unusual situations to proper personnel.

13. Transports clients to and from activities and appointments. Ensures safety of clients by following all traffic rules and observing safe driving habits.

14. Picks up and delivers products to and from specified locations. Maintains an organized and efficient loading and unloading system, including sorting donated goods at the Homeless Assistance Center.

15. Demonstrates sufficient manual dexterity and strength to organize, package, lift and carry materials weighing up to 50 pounds.

16. Adheres to preventive maintenance schedule in an attentive manner.

17. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skill, and or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. This job description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements. Employees will be responsible to perform any other job-related instructions/tasks given by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodations.

Requirements

III. AGENCY EXPECTATIONS OF EMPLOYEE:

• All employees are expected to adhere to Agency Policies and Procedures.
• All employees are expected to dress appropriately and professionally.
• All employees are expected to attend required and/or assigned Agency trainings.
• All employees are expected to be courteous, polite and friendly both to our clients and to their fellow employees.
• All employees are expected to consistently report to work on time prepared to perform the duties of their position.

IV. QUALIFICATIONS:

Education/Experience: A high school diploma or GED is required. Completion of a craft apprenticeship, or an equivalent number of years of maintenance experience preferred. May be required to respond to emergency calls as needed and work a flexible schedule. Ability to climb, lift, push, pull, move heavy items (equipment, furniture, tools, etc.). Experience using power tools and equipment required. Must have a valid driver’s license and safe driving record and be able to lift up to 50lbs with appropriate gear.

V. WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Sufficient manual dexterity and strength to organize, package, lift and carry materials weighing up to 50 pounds.

The Maintenance Technician works in settings of Broward Partnership, including offices, classrooms, group rooms as well as being involved in other areas of Broward Partnership programs both on and off campus. In addition, the position is active in the community as situations warrant, representing Broward Partnership.