Maintenance Assistant

Our Promise

Baptist Housing. It’s your career! At Baptist Housing, every day is an opportunity for you to help our seniors experience life well in supportive communities. As a member of the Baptist Housing team, you can achieve your career goals while working in a collaborative environment where your support is prioritized. We have a full-time Maintenance Assistant position at Carey Place and Linwood, both of our affordable housing communities.

About You

As a Maintenance Assistant, you possess exceptional interpersonal skills and a strong ability to build and maintain relationships with team members, residents, and external partners. You are highly service-oriented and enjoy working collaboratively with others while also being capable of independently carrying out your responsibilities. With your highly developed mechanical skills, you have a proven ability to maintain and repair a wide range of appliances, equipment, and systems. As a critical thinker and problem solver, you approach challenges with a detailed and organized mindset. Adaptability and flexibility are your strengths, allowing you to thrive in a dynamic environment. You effectively manage your time, workload, and conflicting priorities, ensuring tasks are completed efficiently. In your role, you contribute to the smooth operation of our facilities by providing essential support to create a safe and comfortable environment for our residents and team members. You embody our organizational values in every interaction, demonstrating compassion, honesty, respect, innovation, stewardship, teamwork, and fun!

Must Haves

• Formal education or equivalent training and experience in facility maintenance
• Minimum of 5 years of related repair and maintenance experience.
• A sound knowledge of codes, regulations, and best practices related to maintenance.
• Experienced driver with a minimum of a Class 5 license

About The Role

• Fosters positive, collaborative relationships with residents, team members, families, and partners.
• Performs or coordinates routine building and equipment maintenance and repairs, including painting, plumbing, electrical, irrigation, and building fabric (walls, doors, ceilings, floors, and roof).
• Monitor the stock of repair parts, tools, and supplies on-site.
• Travels to purchase and pick up replacement supplies as needed.
• Ensures maintenance work and storage areas are clean and organized.
• Performs annual suite inspections as requested.
• Assists in emergencies at the residences and/or emergency repairs as required.
• Supports on-site contractors.
• Performs preventative maintenance according to the preventative maintenance schedule for buildings and equipment.
• Participates in on-call coverage for after-hour emergencies, as needed.
• Addresses maintenance concerns on time.
• Supports on-going inventory audits.
• Maintains current knowledge of applicable codes and regulations.
• Participates in team meetings.
• Ensures common areas are cleaned regularly.
• Maintains records of preventative maintenance, repairs, and on-demand maintenance.
• Establishes, influences, and supports a culture of health and safety.
• Takes initiative and makes suggestions for health and safety improvements in the workplace.
• Identifies hazards and unsafe work practices, corrects them when possible, or reports them to a supervisor.

About Us

Baptist Housing provides enhanced living communities and exceptional care to over 2700 seniors in British Columbia. We provide long term care, assisted living, independent living, and home support in our communities in Kelowna, Vancouver, and Victoria. We serve through a culture of caring where we put the wellness of our residents first in a person centred approach. We live out a servant leadership model that collaborates in teams and builds strong relationships while exemplifying Christ-like values. We're a committed group of people who bring their whole selves to work, and we're also FUN! We take what we do seriously, but not ourselves. We're affiliated with the Fellowship Pacific Baptist churches.

Your Work Location
Victoria is recognized as one of the top twenty global cities for quality of life. Your work location will be at our newly established Linwood and Carey Place communities, with the time spent at each site determined by operational requirements.

What You Receive

Your total compensation includes a wage of $32.00, a comprehensive benefits package, four weeks’ vacation, RRSP matching at 7%, and support for professional development.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $32.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Extended health care
• Paid time off
• RRSP match

Application question(s):

• Do you have a minimum of 5 years of related repair and maintenance experience?

Ability to Commute:

• Victoria, BC (preferred)

Work Location: In person