Tours facility and grounds to ensure that a safe and secure environment is maintained. Investigates facility alarms and determine what course of action is needed. Ensures all mechanical systems are functioning properly. Manage stock to support the facility par-levels and help to prepare inventories. This position will be required to work varied hours, weekends, holidays including days and evenings in the same week.
Job Duties/Job Details:
Physical requirements require lifting up to 50lbs. maximum.
Frequent use of stairs both up and down, along with climbing ladders, is required.
Must be able to perform verbal and written interaction with patients, fellow employees and other departments.
Ability to meet time standards for completion of work orders and assigned PM’s.
Ability to handle multiple priorities.
Basic knowledge of operation and maintenance of various types of equipment used in the hospital.
Good communication and organizational skills.
Demonstrate initiative in assuming responsibilities.
Inspects equipment and facility for proper operation and working conditions, maintains routine equipment inspections and repairs as necessary, adjusts, disassembles and repairs or replaces parts or components and tests for proper operation.
Uses snakes, augers, or plungers to open clogged drains.
Troubleshoots and replaces TV’s, remote controls, nurse call lights, etc.
Proficiently uses standard hand tools, voltmeter, and amp meter.
Performs a variety of routine manual duties as required, such as repairs and assembling carts and furniture, replacing fluorescent ballasts and tubes, cleaning and lubricating motors, changing air filters, etc.
Sometimes required to move supplies, furniture and equipment, removing trash and scrap materials, housekeeping duties, etc.
Conducts routine safety and preventive maintenance inspections to ensure that services are maintained without interruption.
Patch and paint walls as needed.
Maintains established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives concerning quality assurance, safety, environmental conditions, and infection control.
Assumes responsibility for personal and professional growth through participation in departmental meetings, in-service programs, and continuing education programs.
Ability to work a flex schedule and be available for overtime call-back for emergencies (On-call).
Some travel to alternate facility.
Employees will be required to perform any other job-related requirements as instructed by their supervisor(s), subject to reasonable accommodation.
Required Skills
High School graduate or equivalent. Basic Healthcare Security knowledge.
Required Experience
Specific Job Experience:
Minimum 2 years relevant experience in the maintenance field (preferably in a hospital setting).
Performs routine and preventative maintenance.
Responsible for general and emergency maintenance throughout the facility.
Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment.
Preferred Joint Commission knowledge.
Will be the backup Safety officer for the facility.
Desired: any form of license or certification in HVAC, plumbing or electrical.
Numbers & Facts
Location
Sugar Land, TX
Job Type
Full-time
Industry
Healthcare Services
Company Size
10,000 employees or more
Year Founded
1998
Website
http://www.uspi.com/
About Company
Strength in Numbers
United Surgical Partners International (USPI) and Tenet have combined forces to create the nation’s largest ambulatory surgery provider. Our combined network of exceptional surgical and imaging facilities includes approximately 20 imaging centers, and over 265 short-stay surgical facilities. Together, our partnerships include 50 health systems and more than 4,000 physicians.
Nationwide Experience
Our partners deliver high quality ambulatory solutions in safe, efficient and caring USPI facilities in communities of every size across 29 states. Our physician partners are focused on providing quality patient care, in part because they are invested in their USPI facility. We provide the infrastructure and support they need to perform their best. This is one of the advantages of partnering with USPI.
Quality Patient Services
We share a vision with our physician and health system partners. Our goal is to provide the quality of healthcare services we would insist upon for our own families. Since our founding in 1998, this goal has helped us grow exponentially. Today, our strategic joint venture with Tenet establishes USPI as one of the nation's leading providers of ambulatory solutions.
Operating Excellence
Our size and experience in developing and operating ambulatory facilities and strategic vision allow our facilities to achieve both high patient satisfaction and solid financial results. Moreover, because we engage physicians in the governance and growth of the facility, we also achieve excellent clinical outcomes.
Skills
Communication Skillsunmatched
Electricityunmatched
Equipment Maintenance/Repairunmatched
Facilities Managementunmatched
Furniture Constructionunmatched
Furniture Movingunmatched
Groundskeepingunmatched
HVACunmatched
Hand Toolsunmatched
Healthcareunmatched
Hospitalunmatched
Housekeeping/Cleaningunmatched
Identify Issuesunmatched
Infection Controlunmatched
Multitaskingunmatched
Nursingunmatched
On Callunmatched
Organizational Skillsunmatched
Paint Shop Pro Tubesunmatched
Painting (Facilities and Maintenance)unmatched
Plumbingunmatched
Policy Developmentunmatched
Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
Preventative Maintenanceunmatched
Procedure Developmentunmatched
Quality Assuranceunmatched
Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
Software Patchesunmatched
Testingunmatched
Training/Teachingunmatched
Voltmeterunmatched
Willing to Travelunmatched
Writing Skillsunmatched
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