What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Worker: School Setting position at Classical Charter Schools of America?
Job Description – Fulfillment of Mission
The Roger Bacon Academy is an education management organization that manages multiple award-winning public charter schools in southeastern North Carolina, including Classical Charter Schools of Whiteville. We have an immediate opening for a Maintenance Worker at Classical Charter Schools of Whiteville, located in Whiteville, NC.
The following mission outlines the expectations of all employees at the school level as well as employees of The Roger Bacon Academy in providing support to the schools.
Our understandings of humankind and our universe are expressed and communicated through all of our arts and sciences. Each method of expression – language, painting, music, mathematics, and science – has its rules and techniques for effectively communicating these ideas and understandings.
These rules and techniques are the bridges over which ideas must be communicated from one generation to the next.
Thus, our Mission is:
- To teach the rules and techniques for effective expression and communication in the arts and sciences.
- To communicate, by these arts and sciences, our understandings of the universe and our role in it.
- To instill a love of learning and discovery justifying a lifelong dedication to health, truth, and virtue.
- Paramount for every job at every level on every campus is the fulfillment of this Mission.
Job Priorities
This Mission is furthered in accordance with the priorities observed in all aspects of school life: Safety, Character, and Scholarship and an unfailing adherence to the School Pledge.
General Maintenance Position– Job Responsibilities
Purpose:
A General Maintenance employee uses a variety of tools and equipment to maintain grounds and perform general maintenance. This employee determines the care and treatment necessary to maintain grounds in good condition.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Performs general maintenance of buildings.
- Cuts lawns.
- Trims and edges.
- Prunes shrubs and trees to shape and improve growth.
- Removes damaged leaves, branches, or twigs.
- Sprays lawn, plants, shrubs, and trees with fertilizer, herbicides, and pesticides, using hand or automatic sprayer.
- Conditions and prepares soil.
- Plants seeds, bulbs, grass, flowers, trees, and shrubs according to sketch or design when available.
- Water lawns, shrubs, and flowers.
- Maintains paths or road surfaces.
- Performs grounds maintenance duties, using tractor equipped with attachments, such as mowers, spreaders, lawn roller, etc.
- Operates heavy power equipment.
- Drives dump trucks and transports tractor and ground maintenance equipment.
- Makes minor repairs to equipment.
Qualifications
The General Maintenance employee will have the following experience and attributes:
- Working knowledge of grounds keeping and elementary horticultural practices.
- Working knowledge of planting, cultivating, pruning, spraying, and trimming requirements of flowers, shrubs and trees.
- Skill to operate heavy equipment.
- Ability to use, sharpen and make minor repairs to tools and equipment.
- Ability to follow oral and written instructions.
- Have a high school diploma or equivalent, preferred.
- Physical ability to lift/carry 20-50 lbs. and dexterity to perform the duties & responsibilities
