Position: Building Maintenance Worker

Position Overview: This position reports to the Director of Administration and Operations. The Building Maintenance Worker provides janitorial and maintenance support to the agency.

Position Responsibilities:

1. Develops systems for cleaning, repair and maintenance of facilities
2. Coordinates program schedules for most effective maintenance of departments with minimal interruptions
3. Maintains the efficiency and good working conditions of the facilities

Qualifications/Requirements:

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Experience in building maintenance
• Strong commitment to community service Ability to clean and maintain building and equipment
• Experience with building maintenance and Green cleaning methods

Salary and Benefits: This is a full time, permanent, hourly position. The salary is commensurate with experience. The agency benefit package includes health, life, and disability insurance, retirement plan, and bonus program.

The Agency: Greater West Town Community Development Project was founded in 1989. It is a not-for-profit community-based economic development initiative dedicated to expanding educational and economic opportunity for Chicago’s diverse, low-income community residents in Humboldt Park, East and West Garfield Park, Austin, and North Lawndale. GWTP achieves its mission by developing and providing model programs in comprehensive workforce development and educational services, and related policy initiatives. GWTP links the education, training and employment needs of economically disadvantaged Chicagoans with local economic development efforts and the workforce needs of Chicago-area small and mid-sized employers. GWTP has developed and carries out a multi-faceted strategy to break the cycle of poverty in these economically disadvantaged communities. GWTP’s programs meet local employers’ urgent need for skilled, motivated workers to compete successfully in the global marketplace. GWTP’s programs and unique “Community Business Partnership” help to ensure the long-term stability and growth of community businesses as a primary source of employment for neighborhood residents, and positively impacts overall community economic development. Greater West Town’s continuum of services to community residents includes:

● GWTP’s Vocational Training Program: Hands-on skill training, career counseling and job placement in two high-growth economic sectors—Woodworking & Solid Surface
Manufacturing, and Shipping & Receiving (also referred to as “Transportation,
Warehousing & Logistics”).

● GWTP’s “West Town Academy” alternative high school and Youth Employment programs: Pioneering initiatives that address Chicago’s longstanding and persistent High
School Dropout Crisis and reclaim some of our community’s most at-risk youth. GWTP
Youth programs help young people earn their high school diploma, continue to post-secondary education and/or advanced technical training opportunities, and find permanent career-path employment.

● GWTP’s Adult Employment Services Program: Provides comprehensive skills assessment, career counseling, support services and direct job placement to unemployed people to enable them to rejoin the workforce and to ensure their success in the workplace.

● Community-Business Partnership: All of GWTP’s work is grounded in a unique
Community-Business Partnership model which engages hundreds of local companies in hiring GWTP program participants and in designing, supporting and implementing its
Vocational Training programs.

Human Resources
Greater West Town Community Development Project

500 N Sacramento Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60612

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $15.00 - $16.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to Relocate:

• Chicago, IL 60612: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person