General Maintenance Technician – PFT

Job title: General Maintenance Technician – PFT

Job description: Posting #: 2022-903121

CUPE 815

Position: General Maintenance Technician

Department: Equipment & Asset Management

Status: Permanent Full-time

Hours: Monday to Friday, 7.5 hour days (hours subject to change based on operational requirements)

Site: Oakville

Halton Healthcare takes great pride in providing quality, compassionate healthcare services to our rapidly growing communities. As a progressive and vibrant healthcare organization, we are committed to being an innovative centre of excellence in community hospital care in the Halton and Peel Regions. We are a distinctive centre of healthcare excellence that offers first-rate care in an innovative environment that supports the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs of the community.

This is what you’ll be doing:

• Repair, calibrate and maintain hospital equipment to ensure it is operating safely, effectively and efficiently (e.g. wheelchairs, stretchers, beds, bedside tables, carts, etc.).
• Perform scheduled preventative maintenance on patient beds, stretchers, Staxi chairs, designated therapy equipment and designated food service carts.
• Includes function and ground fault tests, visual, cleaning and lubricating, test run and fastening or tightening, use of hand tools and electrical tester.
• Document all preventative maintenance work, checklists, time & materials in the CMMS.
• Administrative functions performed in MobileView (RTLS Software) for updating battery life on all Rolling Stock RTLS tags
• Installation of new furniture accessories, such as keyboard trays, monitor arms and CPU holders
• Assembling of new equipment such as, shelves, bed accessories, carts, furniture accessories.
• Demand repairs on all Hospital maintained equipment, not covered by Biomed or a Service Contract, that need broken parts replaced, repaired or adjusted. Equipment includes. but not limited to, Beds, Stretchers, Wheelchairs, Furniture, Overbed tables, Fridge/Freezers, Enclosed Carts, General Carts etc.
• Monitoring and maintaining stock part inventory levels

This is what you’ll need to do it:

Halton Healthcare endeavors to hire individuals who are competent in their chosen profession and who exemplify our mission, vision and values of accountability, respect and compassion which guide our individual behaviours and attitudes.

• 2+ years of experience in an acute care hospital preventative maintenance program required
• Technical College Program, electronics based preferred or equivalent experience required
• Experience with Hill Rom beds preferred
• Hill Rom Technical Bed Maintenance Certification an asset
• Ability to work with your hands, make proper use of tools, verbal training on equipment by service technician
• Must be able to work with our CMMS and Real Time Locating Software systems, or similar experience would be considered an asset.
• Basic Excel knowledge required
• Good communications skills essential across all staff levels
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively in a team environment
• Must be comfortable interacting with patients and working in patient rooms
• Must be able to read and write English
• Demonstrate initiative and self-motivation.
• Must be physically able to perform the job and able lift 40 – 60 lbs
• Able to walk significant distance per day
• Satisfactory employment and attendance record

Salary: $20.26 to $25.29

Date Posted: July 21, 2022

Internal applicants due by: July 28, 2022

If you are passionate about what you do, motivated by a job well done, and as committed to excellence, quality and patient satisfaction as we are, we’d like to hear from you. Please submit your application via our website at directly to this posting and include a current copy of your resume.

We thank all those who apply but only those individuals selected for further consideration will be contacted.

In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the Ontario Human Rights Code, Halton Healthcare will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection process. If you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your accommodation needs to ensure your equal participation.

In accordance with Directive #6, Halton Healthcare has implemented a COVID-19 Vaccination and Management Policy. All new hires must be fully compliant with our Policy as a condition of employment with Halton Healthcare. Successful applicants will be required to provide proof of vaccination or proof of a documented medical exemption as part of the hiring process.

All personal information is collected under the authority of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

Halton Healthcare is a smoke free facility in and around all three sites. Smoking is not permitted on hospital properties. We thank everyone who works at or visits our hospitals for respecting this healthy initiative. We are also a scent-free environment for all employees and visitors to accommodate individuals’ health concerns arising from exposure to scented products. We ask for everyone’s cooperation in our efforts to accommodate health concerns.

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