2024-25 Maintenance Position - Upper School

at  HarvardWestlake School

Harvard-Westlake School is seeking an experienced maintenance person who has wide-ranging abilities and who is available for significant paid overtime. This person will be part of a team handling maintaining the plant operations function of the school through plumbing, simple electrical, painting, and general handyman-type projects. Team player with the ability to work independently.
This position requires a lot of flexibility: having good hand skills is important, but equally important is the willingness to do whatever is required to ensure that the school’s facilities and grounds are clean and in good operating order, that the department is prepared for all major events, and that the procedures and processes are functioning as designed. Able to multitask.

SKILLS NEEDED:

We are looking for someone that is skilled and semi-skilled in the related fields:

• Preventative maintenance to buildings and grounds
• Comfortable working with light electrical, plumbing, drywalling/painting, carpentry, tiling, welding is a plus but not required, knowledge of HVAC and refrigeration, and handyman skills

• Use tools such as a leaf blower, broom, and dustpan to clean assigned areas daily, including collecting trash
• Complete maintenance requests submitted online or via telephone, which may include changing light bulbs, using ladders, minor plumbing repairs, hanging bulletin boards, minor electrical repairs, delivering heavy boxes of copy paper, hanging pictures in offices, cleaning up after sick students, unclogging toilets, help park visitors during school functions, and responding to emergency calls
• Collect boxes (often heavy) from receiving department and deliver them to staff all around campus
• Set up and staffing for events: often includes building and moving heavy stage platforms, pressure wash the campus in preparation of events, setting up hundreds of folding chairs, pipe and drape, and necessary sandbags for ballast, moving aluminum tables from storage and returning them following the event
• Employees are in constant motion, are on their feet all day, and must be able to climb stairs and frequently lift up to 50lbs