Maintenance Assistant - Sonida Senior Living : Job Details

Find your joy here, at Ashton on the Plaza, a Sonida Senior Living community! We offer a comprehensive benefit package to include competitive wage/salary, health and dental insurance, 401k with company match & much more!

Ashton on the Plaza, a premier retirement community in Kansas City, MO, provides quality care to residents in an Assisted Living and Memory Care community.

Maintenance Assistant Responsibilities include:

Interacts with residents, families, staff, and other visitors to the community in a pleasant, respectful and courteous manner.

* Always acts as a positive representative of the community.

* Recognizes that residents and families are in fact customers to the business and endeavors to do everything possible to make

their residency enjoyable.

* Recognizes that the words No or can't-do-it do not display the professionalism or customer service that is expected and must

be removed from the working vocabulary.

* Performs daily light bulb walk around/inspection ensuring that all public area light bulbs are operable and working.

* Performs general maintenance on a daily basis responding to resident request through the established work order program

repairing plumbing, electrical and appliance issues.

* Performs general maintenance on a daily basis for the building to include HVAC, plumbing, electrical and kitchen equipment

issues.

* Maintains organization of all storage and equipment areas.

* Performs daily and as assigned painting projects for all common and office areas.

* Prepares empty apartments to new condition for new occupants within the 5 days turnaround requirement as established by

Sonida Senior Living (SSL).

* Maintains exterior grounds ensuring that all debris is picked up on a daily basis around the parking lot, gutters and in landscaping

as well as removing snow and salting as weather dictates.

* Daily removes garbage from the building.

* Assists in the preventative maintenance program.

* Assists with the transportation of guests if required and may be asked to drive.

* Ensure that resident work order requests are completed in the 24

hour requirements.

* Relieves front desk breaks as requested.

* Responds to resident emergencies as requested.

* Maintains uniform appearance, always respectable condition.

* Works productively at all times with a minimum of supervision.

Qualifications:

Education and Experience:

* Experience in janitorial/maintenance work preferred; familiarity with techniques of minor repair and maintenance for

structural, electrical, plumbing, security and heating and cooling systems required. Experience in building safety and

hazard reduction helpful

* Twelve (12) plus years of education preferred.

* Meet continuing education requirements and certifications on job classification and position, including state

requirements.

Skill/ knowledge requirements:

* Ability to communicate and work with all levels of the Company's management staff and Community Department

Managers and Community Team Members effectively.

* Maintains acceptable attendance record/follows work schedule.