General Maintenance Worker/Housekeeping - Part time evenings

About the role

The Minnesota Veterans Home in Minneapolis provides skilled nursing care in a supportive environment that fosters a stable, healthy, and meaningful life for Veterans. The positions perform a variety of indoor and/or outdoor maintenance, cleaning, and laundry activities in a resident care setting.

Responsibilities

• Maintain building floors and hallways using machines or manual processes by sweeping, scrubbing, mopping, and vacuuming.
• Clean windows, walls, curtain dividers, and window treatments using appropriate cleaning agents and ladders.
• Clean and maintain rooms and furniture by dusting, moving, rearranging, and setting up or taking down tables and chairs.
• Clean restrooms by scrubbing floors, sinks, and stools; maintaining supplies of soap and paper products; and emptying wastebaskets and trash containers.
• Clean assigned state-maintained sidewalks by shoveling snow, applying sand and/or deicers, and removing ice, rubbish and other materials.
• Perform personal and regular laundry activities, including sorting and delivering residents' clothes.
• Operate, maintain, and make minor repairs on vacuums and other maintenance equipment.

Requirements

• Knowledge of different types of flooring/floor covering sufficient to determine proper methods of maintenance and appropriate cleaning methods, materials, agents and equipment.
• Chemical cleaning agents such as ammonia, bleaches, scouring agents and soaps sufficient to appropriately select the agent(s), handle and apply, and dispose of safely.
• Methods, tools, and equipment used in maintenance sufficient to operate and use them effectively and make minor repairs.
• Ability to use hand tools and handle fairly light materials manually.
• Perform work functions using ladders and scaffolding.
• Function in adverse weather conditions.
• Make minor mechanical repairs to maintenance equipment.
• Follow instructions, read and understand operational manuals, and keep simple records.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications include knowledge of different types of flooring/floor covering, chemical cleaning agents, methods, tools, and equipment used in maintenance, and ability to use hand tools and handle fairly light materials manually.
• Additional requirements include successful completion of a Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) background check, Tuberculosis (Mantoux) screening, and employment reference checks.

Skills

• Knowledge of different types of flooring/floor covering.
• Chemical cleaning agents.
• Methods, tools, and equipment used in maintenance.
• Ability to use hand tools and handle fairly light materials manually.
• Perform work functions using ladders and scaffolding.
• Function in adverse weather conditions.
• Make minor mechanical repairs to maintenance equipment.
• Follow instructions, read and understand operational manuals, and keep simple records.

Benefits

• Paid vacation and sick leave.
• 12 paid holidays each year.
• Low-cost medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug plans.
• Fertility care, including IVF.
• Dental and orthodontic care for adults and children.
• 6 weeks paid leave for parents of newborn or newly adopted children.
• Pension plan that provides income when you retire (after working at least three years).
• Employer paid life insurance to provide support for your family in the event of death.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance that can provide income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury.
• Tax-free expense accounts for health, dental, and dependent care.

Pay

$20.87- $25.88 / hourly; $43,577 - $54,037 / annually

Schedule

Evening shift - 3:00 pm - 11:30 pm

Contact

To receive consideration as a Connect 700 Program applicant, apply online, email the Job ID#, the Working Title and your valid Proof of Eligibility Certificate by the closing date to Cindy Juliar at cindy.juliar@state.mn.us