Handyman

Location: Jersey City, NJ

Pay Rate: $30.00 per hour

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:30am to 5pm

About the Role

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 Maintenance Technician to join the team.

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, including but not limited to doors, filter changing, installation of floor covering, light carpentry.
• Maintaining a log 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 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 3+ years’ experience in a similar role.
• 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.

Benefits

• Full-time employees (defined as working 30 or more hours per week) are eligible for medical, dental, vision, and other ancillary benefits.
• All employees (full-time and part-time) are eligible to participate in the company’s 401K, which includes an employer match.