Maintenance Technician- Grounds and Facilities

Position Summary: A hands-on site-support role focused on exterior grounds, property condition, access areas, drainage, seasonal readiness, and assigned basic facility-maintenance work. The position helps maintain a safe, orderly, functional manufacturing campus without being defined primarily by production-machine troubleshooting. The role may work independently across outdoor and building-perimeter areas and coordinate with internal maintenance, EHS, security, operations, and approved vendors. Perform regulated, licensed-trade, chemical-application, or specialized equipment work only when properly trained, qualified, and authorized.

Position Purpose: Maintain the plant property and assigned facility-support areas in a condition that supports safe access, drainage, appearance, emergency response, employee movement, delivery activity, and uninterrupted site operations. Address routine grounds conditions before they create slip/trip, visibility, drainage, pest, vehicle, or property-damage risks. Complete assigned building-support repairs within training and authorization. Escalate structural, electrical, roofing, gas, fire-protection, environmental, or licensed-trade conditions beyond role scope. Manufacturing Process Context This role supports the AKER by MAAX Martinsburg manufacturing site through reliable site infrastructure and property conditions. Safe parking lots, drive lanes, walkways, drainage, exterior lighting access, dock approaches, fenced areas, waste areas, and building perimeter directly support employees, visitors, deliveries, emergency access, and production continuity. Perform groundskeeping, landscaping, exterior cleanup, and seasonal property response activities assigned to the role. Production-machine preventive maintenance and breakdown repair remain the responsibility of industrial maintenance unless specifically assigned within the employee's training and authorization. Support assigned facility housekeeping and cleanup activities that fall within the role's facilities scope.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Inspect grounds, parking areas, pedestrian routes, dock approaches, fence lines, drainage paths, exterior storage areas, and building perimeter for unsafe or deteriorating conditions. Perform mowing, trimming, edging, weed control, leaf/debris removal, brush control, litter pickup, and landscape upkeep as required by the site standard. Maintain clear pedestrian routes, fire-lane access, hydrant access, gates, signage visibility, and emergency egress approaches. Support snow/ice removal, salting/deicing, storm cleanup, freeze protection, or severe-weather preparation only where climate and site responsibility require it. Clean or clear approved drains, grates, gutters, downspout discharge areas, and surface-water paths within safe access and environmental requirements. Perform basic facility repairs such as minor carpentry, hardware, doors, fencing, painting, caulking, patching, or fixture replacement when assigned and qualified. Operate approved grounds equipment, site vehicles, utility vehicles, pressure washers, blowers, mowers, trimmers, or other equipment after qualification. Inspect tools/equipment before use, report defects, and maintain preventive care for grounds equipment assigned to the role. Coordinate or escort approved landscaping, pest-control, paving, waste, fencing, roofing, or other site vendors when assigned. Document work requests, property defects, material use, seasonal tasks, and unresolved hazards through the approved maintenance system. Typical Work Sequence Review work orders, weather conditions, site events, delivery needs, open hazards, and priority facilities requests. Conduct a property walk/inspection focused on access, drainage, trip hazards, storm damage, debris, vegetation, fencing, and assigned exterior systems. Complete time-sensitive safety and access work first, followed by scheduled grounds or facility tasks. Coordinate equipment use and work zones to avoid conflicts with employee vehicles, forklifts, yard traffic, carriers, or production movement. Clean, inspect, fuel/charge, and secure equipment; record defects and needed parts. Document completed work and communicate outstanding hazards, vendor needs, weather concerns, or facility conditions during handoff. Tools, Equipment, Machinery, and Materials Use the grounds and facilities tools, equipment, vehicles, and materials assigned to the role in accordance with training and authorization. Walk-behind or riding mower, string trimmer, edger, blower, hedge trimmer, brush cutter, pruning tools, rakes, shovels, brooms, and debris carts. Pressure washer, wet/dry vacuum, pumps, hoses, drain-cleaning tools, hand/power tools, ladders, and basic repair equipment. Operate utility vehicles, pickups, trailers, snow equipment, skid steers, compact tractors, or lifts when assigned and properly qualified. Use fertilizers, deicers, cleaning agents, paints, sealants, fuels, oils, and grounds chemicals in accordance with SDS, labeling, storage, environmental, and applicator requirements. Replacement hardware, fencing materials, signs, lumber, fasteners, filters, lamps/fixtures, and general facility consumables as assigned. Production and Efficiency Expectations Keep critical walkways, entrances, emergency routes, docks, and traffic areas serviceable on the schedule defined by the site.