Hybrid Maintenance Specialist/Equine Caretaker Friday-Tuesday chez Cumberland Heights Foundation, Inc.

Description

JOB TITLE: Maintenance/Equine Caretaker 

DEPARTMENT: ARCH

REPORTS TO: Maintenance Manager

FLSA STATUS: Non-exempt

DATE REVISED: 02/03/2021; 08/11/2025

POSITION SUMMARY

The maintenance/equine caretaker is responsible for maintenance of buildings, equipment, horses, and grounds at Cumberland Heights to ensure the safe and efficient operation of the facility.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:

1. Performs scheduled preventive maintenance on facilities equipment.
2. Performs maintenance tasks in the areas of painting, carpentry, groundskeeping, and horse care. 
3. Ensures that maintenance tasks are completed according to established safety procedures and guidelines.
4. Maintain lawns and fields.
5. Pick up and dispose trash and debris in assigned areas using rakes, brooms and blowers. 
6. Operate blower for cleaning sidewalks, driveways and roadways of snow, gravel and small debris.
7. Maintain all parking gates, security booths and parking equipment, as needed.
8. Catch, halter and lead horse to barn or other location.
9. Feeding and watering horses on a daily schedule.
10. Groom horses.
11. Cleaning stalls and maintain all areas of the barn.
12. Ability to learn and identify general procedures for equine care.
13. Recognize equine signs of distress and follow emergency protocol
14. Maintain clean tack and other supplies/equipment, checking for unsafe/worn equipment and replace as needed.
15. Assist with safety in equine group therapy.
16. Maintain appropriate professional boundaries with current and former clients, client family members and referral sources.
17. Comply with company’s code of conduct.
18. Ensures that a welcoming, safe and healing environment is maintained for each patient and family throughout the continuum of care.
19. Recommends ways to improve the quality and delivery of services.
20. Protects the confidentiality of patient and company information.
21. Reacts productively to change.
22. Available for alternate, evening and weekend schedules and shifts may be required to meet client needs, state and regulatory agency requirements and business necessity.
23. Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED is required.
• Minimum of two (2) years’ experience in equine and groundskeeping experience (carpentry, carpentry, plumbing, painting, mechanical, HVAC, painting, low voltage, equipment operations).
• Basic computer skills including Microsoft (Outlook, Work and Excel)
• Ability to problem-solve, analyze, and interpret information associated with equipment.
• Ability to physically make repairs where equipment is located.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to effectively speak, read and write in English.
• Ability to interact with co-workers in a collaborative and courteous manner while providing guidance, instruction, and training.
• If recovering, one year of verifiable abstinence required with two years preferred; active participation in a twelve-step program preferred.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Position is in a warehouse setting and outdoors utilizing maintenance skills that involves associated risks or discomforts requiring safety precautions. 
• Position requires frequent contact with people in crisis, including those who are emotionally volatile and may require additional safety precautions.
• Position is subject to varying shifts for 24-hour operations, including maintenance and operation of critical equipment.
• Ability to lift and/or push pull up to 50 lbs. multiple times a day; move around campus on uneven and rural terrain.
• Ability to speak, hear, see, sit, walk, stoop, climb, balance, kneel, crawl, crouch, stand, reach, and use fine/gross motor skills.