General Maintenance
Casual, CUPE
C/23-60
The Organization:
St. Joseph’s Health Centre Guelph (SJHCG) is a faith-based organization that is part of St. Joseph’s Health System. We live by our CARE values: Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence, and embed person- and family-centred care throughout our 240 long-term care beds, 106 hospital beds, and a variety of outpatient and community support services. Our staff complement of approximately 700 employees is committed to contributing to a healthy, safe, and respectful environment. If you are a passionate and highly motivated individual, looking to help us advance in our mission, vision and values, we look forward to you joining our team!
The Job Summary:
As a member of the Environmental Services Department, the General Maintenance Worker is responsible for performing a variety of tasks involved in the safe operation and maintenance of the facility.
Key Accountabilities & Success Criteria:
-
Respond to Maintenance calls after hours and weekends and holidays. Determine the need to call in Maintenance Mechanic or contractors.
-
Minor plumbing work including unplugging toilets, sinks, showers, adjusting taps, piping etc.
-
Cleaning up minor floods.
-
Minor electrical work such as changing light bulbs, troubleshooting alarms and alerting the necessary team members.
-
Daily and weekly corrective and preventative work/repairs to the parking gate system. Remove cash weekly for the Business Office.
-
Installation, hookup and troubleshoot problems for satellite tv system, installation of TV wall mounts and TV’s in Long Term Care areas.
-
Assist contractors with information and supplies as required.
-
General repair around the facility including furniture, appliances, machinery, hanging pictures and responding to minor Worx Hub requests.
-
Complies with patient safety programs and processes including identifying and reporting adverse events/near misses.
-
Attends and participates in appropriate safety training or education updates (ie: hand hygiene, emergency code reviews/drills)
-
Identifies unsafe conditions or practices and takes appropriate action to address them including reporting or removing hazards.
-
Perform general maintenance and preventative maintenance of Housekeeping equipment, etc.
-
Perform scheduled cleaning of carpets, stripping and waxing of floors, cleaning ceiling vents, and special projects etc.
-
Complete meeting room set-ups as scheduled and area floor cleaning.
-
Support painting and drywall repair as required.
-
Soiled linen pick-up and delivery.
-
Back-up coverage and support for Receiving, Central Supply, and Switchboard breaks as needed
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Knowledge of/willing to learn computerized Building Automation System (BAS)
Skills & Abilities:
-
General maintenance skills
-
Physical ability to do heavy lifting and transporting.
-
Good attendance record.
-
Ability to operate and repair machines/equipment under safe working procedures.
-
Demonstrated organizational, interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
-
Able to work independently as well as part of a team.
-
Use logic to ascertain solutions to problems, follow verbal and written instructions.
Hours of Work: May include shift work & weekends and holidays, 8 hour shifts
Rate of Pay: $24.70-$25.37
It’s a great time to help shape how health care is delivered in Ontario. To apply to this exciting opportunity, please submit a curriculum vitae in confidence, outlining how your knowledge, experience and personal attributes are a good fit with the requirements of this position and the values of St. Joseph's Health Centre Guelph by October 2, 2023 to:
SJHCG Applicant Tracking System https://sjhcg.startdate.ca OR Visit us at www.sjhcg.ca
St. Joseph’s Health Care Centre Guelph recognizes the importance of immunization to protect our residents, staff and others from COVID-19. As such, subject to any accommodation required by applicable human rights legislation, it will be a condition of employment that all new hires have received all required doses of a COVID-19 vaccine approved by Health Canada.
St. Joseph’s Health Centre Guelph is an equal opportunity employer and strives for equity, inclusiveness, and diversity in all programs, facilities, and people. St. Joseph’s Health Centre Guelph is committed to creating a barrier-free, accessible organization, and will work to accommodate any needs under the Accessibility for Ontario for Disabilities Act and the Ontario Human Rights Code. Should any applicant require accommodation through the application process, please contact Human Resources at [email protected] for assistance. If the applicant requires a specific accommodation because of a disability during an interview, the applicant will need to advise the hiring manager when scheduling the interview and the appropriate accommodations can be made.
We appreciate all responses; however, only candidates under consideration will be contacted.
