General Maintenance Assistant-Student
Position Title: General Maintenance Assistant-Student
Department: Facilities Operations
Supervisor: Adam Coco
Position Duration: Spring 2021, Can extend to Summer 2021
Date Created: September 24, 2020
Needed: Monday-Friday 7am-5pm always flexible with your schedule. 20 hours max.
Facilities Operations is a service organization dedicated to the support of a community of learners through excellence in facilities construction and maintenance. We strive to provide a safe, clean, comfortable, and functional atmosphere that is conducive to living and learning together while maintaining the highest possible standard of financial and environmental stewardship.
General Duties (all levels)
- Manual Labor - Inside and outside building cleaning and removal of furniture and debris. Cleaning building entries of leaves, cobwebs, window washing, painting, basic electrical, plumbing and carpentry and other tasks needed. Snow removal of walks and pathways.
Entry-Level Duties
- Time management, safety, accountability and manual labor knowledge and skills that can be transferred to owning a home, working on computers, or working in the trades.
Upper Level Student Maintenance:
- Take the lead and show new student workers where supplies are and how to complete tasks.
- Transfer of knowledge of skill sets from one student to another - peer to peer mentoring and coaching.
- Project management and responsibility are learned when students are assigned a specific task and they need to identify the required materials, labor, schedule and communicate with those who could potentially be impacted by the work.
- Learning a new craft or trade provides experiential learning opportunities as students learn how to complete certain tasks with various means of tools and methods.
Job Specific Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to:
- Complete basic homeowner skills
- Learn skills from our staff to complete maintenance tasks
- Time management
- Project management
- Accountability
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Experiential learning
Career Readiness Competencies and Transferable Skills
Students will be able to demonstrate the following Career Readiness Competencies (NACE Career readiness Competencies) through:
- Demonstrate critical thinking/problem solving - assess the task given, gather tools/supplies and complete the task.
- Oral/written communications - take direction from staff and complete the task
- Teamwork/collaboration - Facilities is a team that works together and the student will learn how our team works together to complete daily tasks.
- Digital technology - Students will be introduced to our work order system.
- Leadership - Make good decisions with professionalism.
- Professionalism/work ethic - maintaining and following a work schedule, proper work clothing
- Career management - connecting skills gained in Facilities to future career and home ownership.
- Global/intercultural fluency - working with College Campus Community from various cultural backgrounds
General expectations & skills to be successful in this position:
Learning Outcomes Assessment:
- With the supervisor, Peer Advisors will complete the Student Employee Performance Evaluation midway through the semester and at the end of the semester
Training
- Student will train with our staff
- Students will receive safety training from staff and supervisors
Application Instructions:
- To apply, submit your resume using the Handshake system at albion.edu/handshake
- Questions can be directed to Cheryl Lutz clutz@albion.edu
Please note, once you are offered a position you must first go to the Albion College Career and Internship Center website
https://www.albion.edu/academics/career-and-internship-center/student-employment/forms to print off the necessary forms for employment.
Student employees must complete tax forms (W-4 Withholding Allowance Certificates) and proof of work eligibility (I-9) before beginning work as an Albion College Student Employee.
Completed forms must be delivered in person (bringing the required documentation) to the Human Resources Office which is located in 225 Ferguson. All forms should be completed in ink, not pencil and students should use their permanent address on all forms unless the permanent address is an international address.