Facilities/Maintenance Team Member

As the Maintenance Person, you will be responsible for daily upkeep of all four childcare sites while ensuring a safe and professional work environment for 100+ employees and over 500 children. Key responsibilities include completing Centre maintenance, completing general repairs, daily cleaning, and maintaining grounds in a timely fashion and ensuring all work is conducted in a safe, effective manner, aligned with our vision, mission and values.

The ideal candidate would have a varied background and skill set. Experience in multiple trades would be an asset. This position includes a wide variety of duties, an ideal candidate would be a ‘handy person’ with an ability to complete a broad spectrum of tasks daily.

Who you are:

· Go-Getter: You are structured and organized, work with a sense of urgency, and can self direct your time. You are willing to roll up your sleeves and do what it takes to get the job done.

· Required Experience: Minimum 3 years’ experience in building maintenance. Ability to perform repairs as needed. Applicable Red Seal /Journeyman i.e. HVAC, electrical, plumbing, mechanical is an asset.

· Education: High School Diploma or equivalent.

· Coachable: You are coachable and looking for a mentor to help grow your skill set.

· Effective Communicator: You are able to communicate effectively both written and verbally. You have intermediate computer skills and the ability to learn quickly.

· Collaborative: You thrive in a team environment and believe that we can get further faster by working together. Able to give direction to a team and ensure follow through and completion.

· Detail-Oriented: You sweat the small stuff when it comes to detail, you take pride in your work, and you strive for excellence in the work you do.

What You’ll do:

· Complete repairs of equipment, structures, and grounds on the property

· Perform regular property inspections of units, common areas, building exteriors and landscape.

· Trouble shooting and repair to; mechanical, electrical, plumbing and HVAC systems.

· Routine maintenance such as: ventilation, heating, cooling, general maintenance, landscaping, snow removal, and other daily activities.

· General contracting projects

· Maintain logbooks, and tool and material inventory

· Assist with maintenance mechanics to ensure working within the facility

· Perform minor repairs on windows, doors, switches, desks, tables, plugs, equipment, appliances, sinks, toilets, blinds etc.

· Assist with vandalism clean up and repair within skills level.

· Assist with the setup of rooms or auditoriums for meeting, parties, or various other activities and cleans up afterwards.

· Maintain outside grounds (removes snow, ice, and debris, sprays, and removes weeds, sweeps, and cleans gutters, waters, and maintains sprinkling system)

ABOUT US:

As Vernon’s employer of the year winner, our people and environment are a top priority! Maven Lane is Canada’s 2nd largest non-profit Childcare Centre and is in beautiful Vernon BC and surrounding area. Providing leading edge early learning and care with a focus on emergent curriculum, natural play spaces and programming created with children’s interests at heart.

When you join the Maven Lane team, you’ll enjoy:

· Competitive wages and benefits packages

· An excellent company culture, with regular team events and celebrations

· Employee recognition and appreciation programs

· On-site Childcare, On-site parking, paid time off

· A culture of collaboration, safety, inclusion, and fun