Employment Status: Full-Time

FLSA Status: Non-exempt

Schedule: 30+ hours a week. Monday through Friday (with Weekend & Evening Availability for emergencies and inspection of facilities)

Reports to: Pastor

Full-Time Benefits should include: 

• Paid Holidays/Holy Days (vary by location)

• 403b Retirement

• 401 (a) Pension Plan 

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life

• Employee Assistance Program

• Short-term/Long-term Disabilit

Job Summary

Performs a variety of general maintenance and repair of buildings, grounds, and equipment at the various properties owned by the Catholic Community of Gonzales & Waelder, to include minor carpentry, electrical, plumbing, HVAC filters and condensation drains, painting, landscaping, etc.  Prepares facilities for inclement weather.  Responds to off-hours equipment and maintenance issues of facilities in evenings and on weekends.  Inspects buildings after weekend rentals.  Maintains supplies for cleaning and consumables in various churches, and supplies for mass and worship aides in various churches comprising the Catholic Community of Gonzales and Waelder.  Limited janitorial duties may be assigned.  Maintains cemetery and safety in the cemetery by filling holes after rain or drought along with marking gravesites for burial and for placement of monuments.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Routine inspection of facilities to determine necessary maintenance to be performed.

• Completes all maintenance work assigned and responds to after hour building maintenance and emergencies.

• Perform repairs or general maintenance including minor carpentry, electrical, plumbing, HVAC (filters and drains), glazier, masonry, painting, and janitorial work as needed.  (Exception: routine janitorial work is performed by a part-time custodian.)

• Diagnose mechanical problems and determine how to correct them, checking repair manuals, and parts catalogs as necessary.

• Use of tools ranging from common hand and power tools such as hammers, hoist, saws, drills, and wrenches, to precision measuring instruments and electrical and electronic testing devices.

• Moves and assists in transporting furniture and delivery of items to and from various facilities/sites.

• Maintains security of campus buildings including checking, opening, closing and locking doors, windows, and gates, activating and deactivating building alarms, and responding to alarm calls during and outside regular work hours.  Repels insect manifestations outside of contracted extermination services.

• Performs a variety of tasks in the maintenance and alterations of landscape areas: remove or eliminate weeds, trim shrubs, maintain flower beds, minor tree trimming and maintain proper irrigation and drainage of facilities.  Sweep or blow dirt and debris from entrance areas of various buildings.  Sprinkler maintenance of crape myrtles at cemetery.  (Exception: general contractor performs mowing of all properties including cemetery.)

• Prepares, sets up and breaks down meeting rooms per work order request to include tables, chairs and meeting equipment/projectors.

• Maintains an inventory of facility maintenance items, supplies for cleaning, and consumable items such as toilet paper, paper towels, etc.  Uses local business accounts for purchasing supplies through local vendors and arranges for their pick-up or delivery.

• Maintains supply at churches of candles, wine, hosts, and replaces worship aides and missalettes seasonally.  Communicates to parish office manager the need to order church related supplies in a timely manner.

• Receives shipments of supplies and relocates them to their proper storage area.  Maintains all storage areas for both supplies and for tools in an orderly and organized manner.

• Maintains records of scheduled maintenance procedures.

• Assist and attends to authorized general contractors and inspectors including HVAC, plumbers, electricians, alarm service providers, and fire and safety inspectors.

• Marks graves and placement of monuments in cemetery.  Opens new cemetery rows for burial using measurement and basic surveying.  Fills holes in cemetery after periods of rain or drought.

• Uses a ladder to assist placement of banners in the various churches, cleaning high elevated windows, changing lights/light fixtures.

• Floor refinishing (strip and wax) in the off-season and various other projects that do not require a general contractor.

• Responds to work orders outside of normal day to day tasks that are not allocated to general contractors.

• Adhere to safety training and Archdiocesan protocols.  Takes precautionary measures to ensure the safety and well-being of self and others.

• Adherence to Archdiocesan Employee Handbook and Code of Conduct.

Education and Experience:

• High School degree or equivalent
• Two (2) years’ proven experience building / facilities maintenance
• Strong organizational skills ability to plan and organize to meet parish goals and deadlines
• Strong project and time management skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with all levels of staff and management
• Working knowledge of general maintenance tools

Preferred Additional:

• Licensed plumbing, electrical, and HVAC
• Previous buildings maintenance staff manager experience
• Bilingual (English/ Spanish)

Requirements/Competencies: 

• Communication: Ability to effectively share information and ideas of various difficulty and sensitivity through different means of communication and to diverse audiences (electronic, handwritten, verbal).
• Critical Thinking: Ability to actively and skillfully process information and generate solutions using analysis, evaluation, inference, deductive and inductive reasoning.
• Customer Service: Ability to be attentive to the needs of internal and external customers and able to find resolution within the parameters of set standards and messaging in a positive manner.
• Resilience: Ability to deal effectively with pressure, and remain optimistic and persistent, despite challenging situations.
• Results Oriented: Ability to remain focused on objectives of the organization/program while being able to meet or exceed desired outcomes. Ability to prioritize workload and change tasks in process to deal with changing demands.

Physical Requirements:

• The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop; kneel; and crouch/ crawl.
• The employee is frequently required to work in hot and humid conditions.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move 25-50 pounds and larger items using a hand truck.
• This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise as needed.