Building Maintenance Worker/Custodian

Location: Pasco Corps, Port Richey, FL

Position Type: Full-Time at 35 hrs/wk

Pay Range: $14.56 – $15.00/ Hour

About this opportunity:

The Salvation Army, an internationally recognized non-profit, faith-based organization, has a job opening for a Building Maintenance Worker/Custodian for the Pasco County Corps located in Port Richey, Florida. This is a full-time position working 35 hours/week (Monday-Friday, 7 hours per day).

The Building Maintenance Worker/Custodian performs routine repairs and maintenance of buildings, equipment, and vehicles; performs routine grounds keeping work to ensure the beautification of the landscape; performs minor plumbing and carpentry repair work. This position includes custodian duties. 

Key responsibilities:

• Performs routine building maintenance activities; performs minor pluming repairs required by leaking faucets and clogged toilets; performs carpentry work required to repair dents and/or holes in walls and paints walls.
• Performs preventative maintenance of Salvation Army vehicles; monitors and replenishes all fluid levels.
• Maintains the grounds to include mowing grass, trimming hedges, blowing leaves, and collecting debris; maintains the beautification of the grounds.
• Sweeps, vacuums, strips, mops and waxes floors; sweeps sidewalks.
• Assembles and moves office furniture including chairs, desks, tables, bulletin boards, etc.
• Monitors activities and visitors of building and grounds to ensure security.
• Drives truck in order to pick up materials and repair items needed for maintenance work.
• Cleans surroundings after each repair job; ensures that all tools are collected and surroundings are left neat and clean.
• Drives Salvation Army vehicle to pick up materials, supplies, donations, mail, and the like.
• Monitors lighting and changes light bulbs when needed.
• Cleans and sanitizes bathrooms;
• Cleans sinks and toilets, polishes mirrors, and replenishes supplies.
• Cleans windows, dusts and polishes furniture and fixtures.
• Empties trash cans regularly; collects trash from grounds.
• Performs other related work as required.

What we are looking for in you:

• High school diploma or G.E.D. AND
• two years’ experience performing maintenance work in a general maintenance environment OR
• Any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

• Ability to meet attendance requirements.

• Ability to read, write, and communicate the English language.

• Ability to frequently perform heavy lifting of supplies, materials, etc. weighing up to 50 lbs.

• Ability to perform strenuous, heavy work involving the lifting and carrying of heavy objects.

• Ability to perform continuous walking, stooping, standing, and some climbing.

Work requires driving a vehicle and working outdoors daily with exposure to physical discomforts associated with changes in weather such as rain, cold, snow, heat or discomforts associated with noise, dust, dirt, and the like.

Employee Benefits

• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Vacation, Sick, Personal and Holiday Paid Time Off
• Retirement Plan
• Life Insurance and more!

To learn more about the Salvation Army, click here!

Why work for us?

The Salvation Army offers a broad range of career opportunities, particularly targeted toward those motivated by our mission, to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.

The Salvation Army strives to do the “Most Good” for its employees by offering a greater sense of purpose in the work performed, by training and mentoring employees and by offering competitive compensation and benefit plans.  Whether employed as a truck driver, administrative support team member or the director of a program, our employees understand at the core of their work is the opportunity to be an integral part of an organization that is Doing the Most Good.

Five values at the heart of everything we do…We are…

• Passionate
• Compassionate
• Uplifting
• Brave
• Trustworthy

Additional Information:

All employees recognize The Salvation Army is a church and agree they will do nothing as an employee of The Salvation Army to undermine its religious mission.

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Application Submittal Period:  09/04/2024 – 11/04/2024

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled

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We appreciate your interest in employment opportunities with The Salvation Army!