Facilities Associate I

Who We Are:

The Atlanta Community Food Bank is working to end hunger in our community with the food, people and big ideas needed so that no one worries where their next meal is coming from. Since 1979, we’ve been providing food for a growing network of nonprofit partners – including food pantries, community kitchens, child care centers, night shelters and senior centers. We currently serve more than 700 partners in 29 counties across metro Atlanta and north Georgia.

Where You’ll Work:

Facilities / Supply Chain

About the Role:

Provides facilities support services to multiple locations including the following:

• Support general facility and space planning and utilization

• Ensure a secure work environment while following safety guidelines

• Support community service volunteer activities for all programs

• Provide other standard support to the Facility Function

• Provide services to multiple locations as required

• Lead facility projects

What You’ll Do:

Building Maintenance and Repair Services:

• Provide or support maintenance and repair services for all facilities and facility-related (non-distribution) equipment

• Provide or support maintenance and repair service for utilities, elevators, HVAC, and security systems

• Service as the primary vendor liaison for all vendor related service calls and supplies ordering and inventory tracking

• Serve as the primary user along with the Facility Supervisor for deploying work orders through the Service Management Tool used organizationally.

Move Coordination:

• Assist with moving of required facility equipment and major office furniture

• Support minor facility expansion or construction projects

Monitor and support standards and guidelines for all space utilization

Routine Cleaning and Other Services

• Provide or support custodial services, prevention, and remediation rodent control, and provide or support grounds and landscaping services

• Support all non-inventory/product recycling services

• Monitor security equipment and monitoring systems that protect personnel and property

• Coordination and monitoring of the Court Mandated Community Service volunteers’ daily activities.

Our Inclusive Hiring Process:

At the Atlanta Community Food Bank, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We understand that skills can be gained through a variety of experiences – educational and work. Towards that end, our Inclusive Hiring process is grounded in a skills based hiring approach. That means, we are looking for resumes that demonstrate key transferrable skills that can be applied to our job roles to support both our mission and culture.

Key Competencies we look for in All our Food Bankers are:

• Customer Focus

• Decision Making

• Accountability

• The Ability to Navigate Change

If you’re excited about this role and can clearly demonstrate these and the other skills named below, we encourage you to apply.

What You’ll Need: Skills and Experience your resume should demonstrate:

• Demonstrated experience with basic carpentry, painting, and experience operating custodial hand and electric powered tools.

• Work history of performing routine building maintenance tasks including electrical, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, plumbing.

• Must be able to work in varying temperature environments.

Even Better if you have:

• Forklift certification / PIT equipment certification

• Previous volunteer supervisory experience

• General contract experience

This role may be a fit for you if you:

• Have the ability to work flexible hours and enjoy working with diverse groups of people

• Good verbal and customer service skills

And You'll Love this Position if:

• You are by nature?- a quick learner and are detail oriented

• You enjoy working independently

There may be some Physical Demands:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Employee is?routinely required to lift and transport heavy items to waist level, up to 50 lbs.

• Frequent standing, bending, stooping, reaching, climbing and walking are required.

• May be required to drive a forklift and operate warehouse equipment.

• This position would normally have routine opportunities to alter physical position or change eye focus. Frequently operates in temperature conditions consistent with outside weather. Frequently transition between ambient and refrigerator / freezer temperatures. Occasional regional travel with ACFB team members may be required.

• Must be able to work flexible hours and be available “on call.”

Expectation:

We are committed to providing employees with an environment of mutual respect in which the values of Diversity, Safety, Continuous Improvement, and Hard Work are supported and encouraged.? We work diligently to engender fairness, responsibility, trustworthiness and teamwork to advance our mission: To fight hunger by engaging, educating and empowering our community.?

Final Thoughts:

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At the Atlanta Community Food Bank, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.