Maintenance Assistant

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Attendance and timeliness are essential functions of this position.
• Keeps maintenance shop and site storage areas organized and clean.
• Washes trucks and trailers prior to maintenance being done.
• Assists with grounds maintenance as assigned throughout all seasons as directed by shop foreman.
• Remains flexible to respond to the changing needs of the organization and the maintenance department.
• Performs all duties and operate all company vehicles in a safe and responsible manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Uses a personal mobile device for essential work tasks such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), accessing Dayforce, and receiving time-sensitive communications.
• Complies with all company safety policies, including use of protective equipment and Fit for Work.

Qualification Requirements

• Education And/or Experience: High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Language Skills: Ability to read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with co-workers, supervisors, and managers, to understand procedures and warning signs and or markings in the English language, to respond to inquiries, and to make entries on reports and records.
• Mental Abilities: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb, or balance. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
• Specific Vision Abilities: Close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Required Personal Protective Equipment (ppe): Employee is required to wear PPE as outlined in AWE Industrial Health and Safety Manual Chapter 2.27 PPE Program, which may include hard hat, safety toe shoes/boots, gloves, chemical splash suits, safety glasses/goggles, hearing protection, respiratory protection, and arctic gear.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts. The employee occasionally works in high, precarious places and in outside weather conditions and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes, or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme cold, extreme heat, risk of electrical shock, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is high. Hearing protection is required.