Benefits

At Rising Ground, we encourage everyone to live a healthier life. When you enroll in health care benefits — medical, dental, and vision care, you and your family can take advantage of each plan’s preventive services, which will help everyone to stay well. Another way to remain healthy is to eat right and keep active. Ultimately, we all benefit when we make the right choices, whether through diet and exercise or health care services. You can also take advantage of other important benefits, including life and accident, disability benefits, the retirement savings plan, and the employee assistance program.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

• Make basic repairs
• Drywall and painting
• Basic plumbing and electrical work
• Mowing and landscaping as needed
• On off hours you may be called in for emergency situations
• May be called upon to work late evening hours and/ or weekend hours when projects have a tight deadline
• Maintain the exterior of the building front and rear (parking lot). During snow season, will be responsible for cleaning paths; salting/sanding

Competencies

• Self-starter able to work independently
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong customer service orientation
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong multi-tasking and time management skills
• Strong presentation skills and professional acumen
• Excellent team player
• Problem solving - identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner and gathers and analyzes information skillfully
• Interpersonal Skills - maintains confidentiality, remains open to the ideas of others and exhibits willingness to try new things
• Planning/organizing - prioritizes and plans work activities, uses time efficiently and develops realistic action plans
• Quality control - demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness and monitors own work to ensure quality
• Flexibility/Adaptability - adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands and is able to deal with frequent change, delays or unexpected events
• Safety - actively promotes and personally observes safety and security procedures and uses equipment and materials properly
• Intermediate computer skills with the ability to operate word processing, email management and digital calendar software
• Ability to operate computer software to plan spaces and moves, manage buildings, maintenance, and service requests

Supervisory Responsibility

No supervisory responsibilities

Work Environment

Primary environments are in and about the several residential locations assigned.

Physical Demands

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  Regularly required to operate a vehicle to travel throughout work sites
• Regularly required to walk about
• Routinely required to stoop, kneel, crouch, and/or crawl
• Regularly required to climb stairs and/or ladders
• Occasionally required to lift, push or pull up to 50 pounds
• Routinely required to stand for long periods of time

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This position requires a 24 hour/7 days per week on call schedule availability in case of emergencies. The standard work schedule is Monday through Friday, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm, 37.5 hours per week.

Travel

This position requires frequent travel between Rising Ground sites and offices as necessary

Required Education and Experience

• High school or General Education Diploma (GED) required
• 3-5 years of Maintenance experience
• Valid NYS, NJ or Connecticut Driver’s License required
• At least 2 years driving experience
• Intermediate technical skills – MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, Email and Calendaring
• Ability to operate computer software to plan spaces and moves, manage buildings, maintenance, and service requests

OSHA 30-hour Construction Safety and Health Certification

• Ability to work independently with support from General Services Supervisor
• Must be able to work with a sensitive/vulnerable population. Previous experience in such a field is a plus