Facilities Maintenance Technician

Job description

The Facilities Maintenance Technician is a key new position within the Grounds & Facilities department at Community First! a unique multi-unit residential property dedicated to offering homes and dignified work opportunities to CFV neighbors who have experienced chronic homelessness.

This vibrant community features a diverse array of tiny homes, Park Model RVs, offices, commercial buildings, and other unique residences, accommodating over 500 community neighbors and staff members.

This role involves addressing small-scale repairs and performing preventative maintenance on HVAC, plumbing, and electrical systems for the larger commercial facilities at CFV.

Beyond maintenance, this role ensures the public space and buildings within the village are well-maintained, secure, and beautiful, fostering a sense of pride and stability for all members of the community.

This is a full-time, non-exempt position reporting to the Facilities Manager. Hours are 8am-5pm or 7am-4pm Monday-Friday.

On-call availability over weekends and holidays required. This position will office at Community First! Village is located at 9301 Hog Eye Road, Austin, TX 78724.

Christian social outreach ministry that empowers communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless. The organization’s innovative Community First! Village is the country’s largest master planned development designed specifically for men and women who are coming out of chronic homelessness, and has become a national model replicated by other organizations in different cities.

With the support of tens of thousands of volunteers and more than 6.5 million meals served through its Truck Ministry, MLF has also grown to become the largest prepared feeding program to the homeless in Central Texas and has spawned similar food truck programs across the country.

Duties & Responsibilities :

• Perform day-to-day maintenance for laundry / restroom / shower facilities, kitchens, staff offices, and other minor repairs
• Occasionally diagnose mechanical equipment as necessary, including heating and air conditioning systems in buildings.
• Performs light electrical duties, including inspecting and testing lighting, wiring, power circuits, and replacing light bulbs, faulty switches and lamps.
• Working with and around plumbing systems in larger commercial buildings to identify and resolve
• Work with outside contractors and vendors and regularly utilize them to provide services, communicating clearly with them and overseeing their work to assure quality.

Assure prices are fair and at market.

• Conduct preventative maintenance tasks, such as changing A / C filters in larger buildings.
• Ensure strong customer service for staff and formerly homeless neighbors through a positive attitude, timely maintenance of laundry / restroom / shower facilities, outdoor kitchens, and other shared spaces
• Other Duties & Responsibilities as needed

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Principles :

• MLF is a faith-based organization whose ideals and philosophy come directly from the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As an organization, we strive to reflect this precept in our communications, both internally and externally.
• Commitment to serving those who have experienced homelessness and personal alignment with MLF’s vision, mission, core values, and goals.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• A working knowledge of systems in commercial or institutional buildings
• Licensed or certified in one or more areas a plus : HVAC, electrical, plumbing, or general contractor
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 including Outlook, Word, Excel, and Teams, for efficient communication, documentation, and collaboration
• Strong skills in managing multiple and diverse projects and work orders
• Strong work ethic and ability to work at a fast pace
• Excellent organizational skills
• Ability and experience delegating work to outside vendors
• Must be relational and have an enthusiastic positive attitude
• Ability to work with difficult customers
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Keen attention-to-detail for assessing demands and communicating accurately to the Facilities Manager
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 including Outlook, Word, Excel, and Teams, for efficient communication, documentation, and collaboration
• Ability to solve practical problems, deal with various variables in situations, and manage projects requiring outside contractors.
• Must have a valid driver’s license

Work Environment & Physical Demands :

• Work is performed 50% indoors in a climate-controlled environment and 50% outdoors in varying weather conditions.
• Ability to move about all phases of Community First! Village
• Physical requirements would require lifting over 30 lbs., stooping, kneeling, and climbing ladders

Our Purpose & Vision

We empower communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless.

Goals

• Transform the way people view the stereotype of those who find themselves homeless
• To reconnect the homeless to self, family, and community
• Help the chronically homeless rediscover and utilize their God-given talents to do purposeful work
• To connect human to human, heart to heart through the fellowship of food and hospitality
• Inspire people to give abundantly and offer their best first

Core Beliefs

The vision is supported by core beliefs, all focused around our understanding that homelessness is the result of a profound catastrophic loss of family :

• God, infinitely prefect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness, freely created man to make him share in His own blessed life
• By virtue of being created by God in His image, we are all called to live in community and relationship with Him through each other
• The family is the original cell of social life
• You shall love your neighbor as yourself
• All members of the human family are equal in dignity
• The Lord God took the man and settled him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and care for it. Gen.2 : 15

Our Mission

We provide food and clothing, cultivate community and promote dignity to our homeless brothers and sisters in need.

Core Values

MLF is committed to fostering a culture that prioritizes relational connection. We believe there is opportunity in every aspect of our work to be relational in a highly transactional world.

In this culture, transactions are means to relational ends, not the other way around.

This begins with the countercultural love poured out by Jesus Christ and grows as imperfect individuals strive to show this love to each other human-to-human, heart-to-heart.

Each individual’s openness to the journey of their own personal growth is essential in building our relational culture, and we believe this culture flourishes as we each continuously strive to more fully embody these four core values :

• Faith : We define Faith as the foundational belief that our world and all our work belong to God. This allows us to engage our work with joy and lightheartedness, knowing that we are not ultimately in control.
• Humility : We define Humility as rightly viewing oneself as a single piece of a grander story. This humility leads to a view of oneself that is neither too high nor too low.
• Generous Spirit : We define a Generous Spirit as a readiness to give more grace, mercy, and hospitality than is necessary or expected.

This posture allows us to see others for who they are, not what they do.

Integrity : We define Integrity as a wholehearted commitment to doing right by God, ourselves, and others. This wholeheartedness shows itself in consistently choosing honesty, responsibility and ownership in all actions and decisions.

Job Type : Full-time

Pay : $22.00 - $25.00 per hour

Schedule :

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed
Work setting :
• In-person
• In-person

Experience :

• Programmable logic controllers : 1 year (Preferred)
• Mechanical knowledge : 1 year (Preferred)

Ability to Commute :

Austin, TX 78727 (Required)

Ability to Relocate :

Austin, TX 78727 : Relocate before starting work (Required)

Willingness to travel :

25% (Preferred)

Work Location : In person