Facility Technician

QUALIFICATIONS:

High School diploma or GED preferred.

Experience in general maintenance applicable to the duties described below preferred. This position also requires rotating on-call.

Valid Colorado drivers license and driving record acceptable to agency insurance company and acceptable background check.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: In dealing with all aspects of vehicle and maintenance work it is essential that these responsibilities be treated with the utmost safety in mind. Attention to detail in the actual work as well as the documentation of such is essential.

Building Maintenance

Plumbing: includes the repair replacement or installation of faucets pipes hot water heaters toilets garbage disposals dish washers refrigerators and washing machines.

Electrical: includes the repair replacement or installation of electrical switches circuit breakers wall outlets ceiling lights ceiling fans 220V appliance plugs and thermostats.

Painting & drywall repair: includes minor drywall repair painting of interior and exterior surfaces.

Appliance repair: includes the repair replacement or installation of appliances such as refrigerators dishwashers stoves and washers and dryers.

Exterior repairs: includes the repair replacement or installation of roof shingles gutters and downspouts window screens doors and evaporative coolers.

Snow removal: includes shoveling blowing or plowing snow away from walkways and driveways and laying down salt atop icy surfaces to prevent slipping and falling.

Records and Reports:

Works with the Maintenance Supervisor to organize work orders to effectively complete maintenance requests in a timely manner or by level of urgency. Maintain daily work order tracking and other pertinent forms and logs as required on a computer.

Working skills

• Effectively communicate with all program areas.
• Work with others in a positive manner.
• Work with minimal supervision and recognize situations where assistance is needed.
• Perform duties and conduct interactions with agency staff clients and the public in a professional manner consistent with Community Options Inc. values.
• Deal with stress and stressful situations in an effective productive manner.
• Promote and maintain appropriate professional and ethical relationships in accordance with policies rules and regulations.
• Other duties as assigned or required for proficient operation of Maintenance Department.

Will be responsible for on-call on a rotating basis with the other members of the Maintenance Team.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

Working as the Maintenance involves moderate to heavy work in all types of weather. There is frequent need to stand stoop walk lift heavy objects and perform other similar actions during the course of the workday. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job and will vary depending on the facility in which you are working.

Maintenance Workers must guard against back injury because they may have to lift and or move up to 60 pounds alone and up to 100 or more pounds with assistance. You will be trained on and required to follow proper body mechanics and procedures for lifting/moving objects.

Maintenance Workers must exert 60 to 100 or more pounds of force occasionally and/or 20 to 50 pounds of force frequently.

Maintenance Workers will be required at times to ascend and descend ladders stairs scaffolding and to maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking standing or crouching on narrow or slippery surfaces.

The employee is frequently required to walk. He/she must be able to reach forward backward and upward with hands and arms as well as use fingers for picking up objects determining texture and temperature. Use hands to finger handle or feel and reach forward with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit stoop kneel push pull or crouch.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision distance vision peripheral vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Specific communication abilities required by this job include expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken word. This is especially crucial when detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately.

Specific hearing abilities include perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and making fine discriminations in sound.

Maintenance Workers may face hazards from exposure to chemicals and infectious diseases. Maintenance/Vehicle Workers will be trained on and required to follow Universal Precautions.

Maintenance Workers must take precautions in the hot and cold environments that they work in as they are often exposed to extreme temperatures - both hot and cold.

Maintenance Workers must be able to work under vehicles that are up on a lift. The ability to work with hands overhead is often the case.

Maintenance Workers are faced with working in a variety of environmental conditions such as extreme heat ice and snow rain and mud.

Benefits at Community Options:

• Medical vision & dental insurance (30 hour per week)
• Paid sick and vacation time that begin accruing on your first day
• Paid Holiday and extended illness benefit
• Set schedules with set days off (two days in a row)
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Reimbursement Account
• Company paid life insurance
• Paid in-depth training
• Collaborative team environment
• Casual dress
• Employee assistance program
• Employee recognition programs
• COI is a qualified employer for the Public Student Loan Forgiveness Program

Equal Opportunity Employer/Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled

Required Experience:

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