Maintenance Director Full-Time

Maintenance Director - Full-Time

Garden City Healthcare Center
Pay Range: $22.00-$23.00 per hour, based on experience

Garden City Healthcare Center is seeking an experienced, dependable, and safety-focused Maintenance Director to lead our Maintenance Department.

This position plans, organizes, develops, and directs facility maintenance operations to ensure a safe, comfortable, sanitary, and well-maintained environment for residents, employees, and visitors.

The Maintenance Director works closely with the Administrator and department leaders while ensuring compliance with facility policies and all applicable federal, state, and local regulations.
Essential Responsibilities


* Plan, organize, implement, evaluate, and direct the Maintenance Department and its daily operations


* Develop and maintain preventive maintenance schedules, policies, procedures, and inspection records


* Perform routine facility rounds and ensure maintenance assignments are completed accurately and promptly


* Inspect resident rooms, common areas, storage rooms, workrooms, utility closets, equipment, and facility grounds


* Coordinate maintenance services with Nursing, Dietary, Activities, Housekeeping, and other departments


* Maintain and monitor mechanical, electrical, plumbing, heating, cooling, boiler, compressor, and generator systems


* Identify maintenance concerns and arrange for timely repairs


* Ensure services performed by outside vendors are properly completed and supervised according to contracts and work orders


* Maintain productive working relationships with vendors, contractors, department leaders, residents, and families


* Promptly report equipment or facility damage to the Administrator


* Supervise fire-prevention, emergency-preparedness, and workplace-safety programs


* Inspect work areas and equipment regularly to identify and correct potential hazards


* Ensure employees follow established safety procedures and properly use required protective equipment


* Maintain Material Safety Data Sheets and ensure hazardous chemicals are properly labeled, stored, and handled


* Develop and implement infection-control and universal-precaution procedures for maintenance operations


* Ensure maintenance employees receive appropriate safety, infection-control, and hazardous-material training


* Assist with developing the department budget and monitor expenses, supplies, labor, and equipment costs


* Maintain accurate financial, inspection, repair, and preventive maintenance records


* Participate in facility surveys and inspections conducted by authorized agencies


* Develop and implement plans of correction for maintenance deficiencies identified during surveys


* Ensure medical waste is handled and disposed of according to facility procedures


* Maintain the confidentiality of resident information, including protected health information


* Remain prepared to respond...