Handyman

Planned Companies –Handyman – Job Description

Location: Poughkeepsie, NY

Hourly Rate: 23.00 an hour

Schedule: Sunday through Thursday 8am-5pm.

Summary

Planned Companies’ clients’ properties are kept clean, secure, and welcoming with a variety of equipment requiring routine inspection, maintenance, and repair. To ensure our cleaning, security, and concierge teams provide the best service Planned Companies Maintenance Services (PMS) is hiring a Handyman to join the team.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

Ensuring preventative maintenance of all mechanical, electrical, and plumbing equipment and repair of such equipment as required; contact outside contractor when required.

Checking boiler and hot water heaters for leaks and reporting to management.

Scheduling extermination procedures as necessary.

Maintaining social areas or amenities as needed.

Assuring walkways are clear and/or salted during inclement weather.

Inventorying mechanical/ maintenance supplies.

Troubleshooting tripped breakers, leaking pipes, and water intrusion.

Executing general repair of the building included but not limited to doors, filter changing, installation of floor covering, light carpentry.

Maintaining a log keeping and visible inspection of all operating equipment, including chiller, cooling tower, water heaters, pumps and fan coil units.

Inspecting rooftop exhaust fans, cooling tower, domestic water drives.

Ensuring trash removal and maintaining trash area are organized.

Replacing light fixtures, branch switches, receptacles, and sockets when necessary.

Adjusting of locks and latches on doors, windows, and lockers

Removal and replacement of all blown light bulbs

Painting and plastering as required.

Maintaining daily records of work performed

Reporting necessary work to be done by outside mechanics, maintain a record when such work is completed.

Assisting building management with all projects and all other job duties as requested

Requirements:

Minimum of 2 + years’ experience in a similar role.

Requires strong plumbing, electric and carpentry experience.

Solid interpersonal skills, along with excellent communication skills. Bilingual is preferred.

Good listener and able to accurately transmit information.

Reliable, highly organized, attention to detail, courteous, friendly, hardworking, and professional.

Eager to learn and take on additional responsibilities.

Extremely dependable and reliable, must be flexible to work during emergency situations.