Maintenance Mechanic, Plant Maintenance

Heywood Hospital•Gardner, MA

3d•$23 - $32•Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for maintaining a clean and safe hospital environment. The Maintenance Mechanic will conduct interactions with everyone in a friendly, courteous, and respectful manner, and go out of their way to offer assistance to others. They will advocate to ensure privacy and confidentiality while helping others to maintain awareness. The role involves maintaining a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors, and/or staff to provide the highest level of physical comfort, and minimize risk and injury. Ensuring compliance with regulations to maintain accreditation and licensure is also a key part of the role. The employee must comply with the Hospital Attendance and Tardiness Policy and complete all Hospital and Department Specific Mandatory requirements in the prior calendar year. Incidents must be reported in a timely and effective manner. All employees with direct patient contact are responsible for actively engaging in the practice of, monitoring and enforcing compliance to hand hygiene. The role also involves sharing knowledge and expertise to help others improve performance and keeping customers, staff, manager, and other departments informed of deadlines and changes. Specific performance metrics include completing 98% of corrective work orders each quarter, completing 98% of preventive maintenance assigned each month, and maintaining a less than 5% call back rate on all work orders. The role also includes completing all minor construction as assigned, completing and submitting requisitions, including costs of supplies, to the supervisor, performing snow removal duties as assigned, and responding appropriately to power failures. This document describes the major duties and responsibilities for this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that employees may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described.

Requirements

High school, trade school or vocational school graduate
Five to seven years experience required
Driver’s license required
knowledge of State and local building codes
Strong background in mechanical systems necessary to perform various duties
Numerical ability, spatial ability, form perception, and motor coordination is required

Responsibilities

Conducts interactions with everyone in a friendly, courteous and respectful manner.
Goes out of his/her way to offer assistance to others. If he/she cannot offer assistance, then finds someone who can
Advocates to ensure privacy and confidentiality while helping others to maintain awareness.
Maintains a clean and safe hospital
Responds appropriately and immediately in emergency situations.
Maintains a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors, and/or staff to provide the highest level of physical comfort, and minimize risk and injury
Ensures compliance with regulations to maintain accreditation and licensure.
Complies with the Hospital Attendance and Tardiness Policy
Completed all Hospital and Department Specific Mandatory requirements in the prior calendar year.
Reports Incidents in a timely and effective manner
All employees with direct patient contact are responsible for actively engaging in the practice of, monitoring and enforcing compliance to hand hygiene
Shares knowledge and expertise to help others improve performance
Keeps customers, staff, manager, and other departments informed of deadlines and changes.
Completes 98% of corrective work orders each quarter
Completes 98% of preventive maintenance that is assigned each month
Maintains a less than 5% call back rate on all work orders
Correctly completes all minor construction as assigned
Completes and submits requisitions, including costs of supplies, to the supervisor
Performs snow removal duties as assigned
Responds appropriately to power failures