Maintenance Technician Apprentice - Full-time - AVALA Hospital

Summary

Under supervision of the director, superintendent or a qualified maintenance technician, the Maintenance Technician Apprentice assists the maintenance technicians with a wide variety of maintenance duties in order to provide a clean, orderly and safe environment; and perform related work as required.

 Essential Duties and Responsibilities

General Requirements                                                                                                                                

• -Assists with a variety of duties, including installing equipment, maintaining mechanical systems and repairing machines and other duties as assigned.
• -Assists with conducting Hazardous Conditions Survey monthly.
• -Receives and responds to Environment of Care Rounds/ Surveys when received.
•  -Monitor facility for possible safety hazards.
•  -Reports unsafe conditions immediately and takes responsibility to resolve quickly.
•  -Responds promptly to requests for service or repair of facility equipment.
•  -Performs work in a professional, timely manner to the benefit of AVALA customers.                                                                                                                                      

Plumbing System   

• -Assists with facilitating the Parish on inspection of water and drainage system for proper operation.
•  -Assists with performing routine plumbing maintenance and repairs.
•  -Assists with maintaining exterior drainage system.
• -Monitor sprinkler system to ensure it functions properly and notify vendor if necessary.
•  -Understands/will learn functioning of hot water boiler system and service basics.
•  -Understands/will learn requirements for shut off and isolation of water supply.
•  -Assists with facilitating service work on natural gas service to facility.                                                                                                                                                         

Med Gas

• -Monitor/will learn all med gas and vacuum connections for proper function.
• -Replace empty tanks as needed.
• -Understands/will learn functioning of Bulk O2 and requests refill/ service when necessary.
• -Understands/will learn and properly interacts with Med Gas alarm system.
• -Assists with facilitating necessary bio med work on anesthesia equipment.

Electrical System and Lighting                                                                                                                   

•  -Assists with performing routine system inspections of utility services as required.
• -Inspect light fixtures and components, change/ repair as required.
• -Assists with performing routine electrical repairs as required.
•  -Assists with testing emergency lighting routinely.
• -Assists with Inspections and repairs of parking lot/ exterior lighting.
• -Routinely inspect generators for proper function.
• -Assists with monitoring and replenishing diesel supply for generators.
• -Assists with monitoring and records parameters of operation for the generators.                                                                                                                                             

Special Systems  

• -Understands/will learn Security systems such as card access, keypad locks and CCTV cameras.
• -Recognize/will learn basic Nurse Call functions and requests repair when necessary.
• -Understand/will learn and repair in house video/ cable and music system.
• -Assists with maintaining telephone systems.                                                                                                                                          

Fire Protection  

• -Assists with routinely inspecting fire extinguishers.
• -Understands/will learn to inspect kitchen hood/ fire suppression system.
• -Inspects and understands/will learn fire suppression and detection systems.
• -Ensures operation of systems during facility construction/ renovation work.
• -Assists/will learn how to conduct fire drills and train staff in fire safety as required.                                                                                                                

Heating and Air Conditioning

• -Assists with facilitating with vendors to ensure inspections are complete on all belts and filters on maintenance schedule and change if necessary.
• -Assists with facilitating with the vendor to inspect all HVAC equipment for proper functioning.
• -Understand/will learn and utilize computerized HVAC control system.
• -Understand/will learn and initiate service work for main roof top chiller units.
• -Will learn the performing programming of thermostats.                                                                                                             

Biomedical Equipment    

• -Assists with facilitating with vendors to perform basic safety testing of new and existing equipment using analyzer(s).
• -Work with staff to identify and repair any biomedical equipment as required.
• -Removes defective equipment immediately and labels accordingly.
•  -Assists with coordinating biomedical repairs with service vendor to insure timely repair of equipment.
• -Assists with coordinating shipping/ receiving of factory repairs of equipment with Materials Mgmt.                                                                                                                                     

Interior of Facility 

•  -Perform repairs to equipment, fixtures, doors, office and kitchen equipment.
•  -Maintain window integrity through inspection and repair.
•  -Perform routine maintenance on interior finish details such as paint, moldings and wall fixtures.
•  -Inspect all buildings, facilities and equipment for needed repairs and maintenance.                                                                                                                              

Exterior of Facility     

• -Monitor lawn and landscaping for any visual changes and notify vendor as necessary.
•  -Monitors and cleans exterior of building and parking lot as needed.
• -Monitor exterior lighting and notify vendor if repair as needed.                                                                                                             

Construction and Renovation   

• -Assists with coordinating construction related activities throughout the hospital.
• -Communicates to all departments affected by construction activities and plan accordingly.
• -Assists with developing a plan and perform in house renovation work as necessary.
• -Follow all Infection Control measures during construction and renovation.                                                                                                                                   

Safety and Security   

•  -Utilize safe work practices whenever performing job tasks.
•  -Follow all safety rules and regulations.
•  -Attend staff/ department meetings and communicate concerns appropriately.
•  -Will learn/trains and informs staff of security concerns and responds to security code alerts.
•  -Will learn/plans and conducts fire, security and emergency preparedness drills.
• -Understands/will learn all Emergency Code functions as detailed in the policy and procedure manuals.
• -Maintains the secure access to the facility by checking and locking doors at the end of the business day.                                                                                                                                                                   

Ancillary Duties  

• -Assists with the supervision of the Housekeeping Department when required.
  
• -Assists with maintaining and ordering supplies for the Maintenance Department.
• -Assists with maintaining and ordering supplies for the Housekeeping Department when required.
• -Assists with maintaining and ordering all linen for the facility.
•  -Assists with coordinating the handling of all general and bio-hazardous waste.
•  -Works with Material Management to send/ receive any large shipments/ deliveries.             

Core Competencies

Action Orientation - Targets and achieves results, overcomes obstacles, accepts responsibility, establishes standards and responsibilities, creates a results-oriented environment, and follows through on actions.

Communications - Communicates well both verbally and in writing. Effectively conveys and shares information and ideas with others. Listens carefully and understands various viewpoints. Presents ideas clearly and concisely and understands relevant detail in presented information.

Creativity/Innovation - Generates novel ideas and develops or improves existing and new systems that challenge the status quo, takes risks, and encourages innovation.

Critical Judgment - Possesses the ability to define issues and focus on achieving workable solutions. Consistently does the right thing by performing with reliability.

Customer Orientation - Listens to customers, builds customer confidence, increases customer satisfaction, ensures commitments are met, sets appropriate customer expectations, and responds to customer needs.

Interpersonal Skills - Effectively and productively engages with others and establishes trust, credibility, and confidence with others.

Leadership - Motivates, empowers, inspires, collaborates with, and encourages others. Builds consensus when appropriate. Focuses team members on common goals.

Teamwork - Knows when and how to attract, develop, reward, and utilize teams to optimize results. Acts to build trust, inspire enthusiasm, encourage others, and help resolve conflicts and develop consensus in creating high-performance teams.

 Professional Requirements

• Meets dress code standards and adheres to policies.               
• Completes annual education requirements.
• Maintains regulatory requirements.
• Maintains patient confidentiality at all times.     
• Reports to work on time and as scheduled, completes work within designated time.        
• Wears identification while on duty, uses computerized punch time system correctly.
• Completes in-services and returns in a timely fashion.
• Attends annual review and department in-services, as scheduled.
• Attends staff meetings annually, reads and returns all monthly staff meeting minutes.
• Represents the organization in a positive and professional manner.
• Actively participates in performance improvement and continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities.
• Complies with all organizational policies regarding ethical business practices.
• Communicates the mission, ethics and goals of the hospital, as well as the focus statement of the department.
• Promotes professional growth of subordinates by sharing knowledge and/or directing them to sources if information appropriate to given situation. Utilizes journals, books, etc. to learn and/or improve new techniques and equipment.
• Assists other staff members in performing any duty that enhances the delivery of patient care.

Regulatory Requirements

• High School Diploma or Equivalent.
• Understand and adhere to all safety rules and regulations.
• Follow technical specifications from manufacturers/ installers of facility equipment.

Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Basic computer knowledge.

 Physical Demands

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. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires repetitive motions, standing, walking, bending, kneeling and stooping all day. The employee must frequently lift or move items weighing over 100 pounds.