Job Location: Federal Bldg And Courthouse-FEDSC - Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301,
Position Type: Full Time, Education Level: None,
Salary Range: $17.75 - $17.75 Hourly,
Job Category: Facilities, Summary:
This position is part of the AbilityOne Program, a national program that provides employment opportunities to individuals with disabilities. Through nonprofit agencies, the program offers employment opportunities in areas such as custodial, landscaping, and food preparation services to a diverse range of government customers. The program also requires that 75% of the services provided be completed by individuals who meet the definition of federal disability. Reasonable accommodation will be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Background Requirements: Must pass a background check and may be subject to a federal background check (where applicable).
Qualifications: Education and/or Experience:
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to talk or hear. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): You must wear the appropriate PPE, including glasses, gloves, a mask, goggles, and closed-toe shoes.
Work Environment: The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Employees could work in outside areas. This position includes the ability to work with reasonable accommodation, and the work environment can be adjusted to support individuals with disabilities as required
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Goodwill also provides B2B services in janitorial services, commercial laundry, apparel manufacturing, and fulfillment and assembly services. We also produce U.S., state, city and custom flags through our Goodwill Flag Center.
The Need: There are over 460,000 (or 12.8%) out of 3.5 million people of working age that are classified as disabled with 82.3% among them not working, and 25% living below the poverty line.
The Results: Despite that great need, in 2018, the agency provided disability services to nearly 6,400 South Floridians and is the 17th largest employer in Miami.
How we do it: Goodwill engages in a unique social entrepreneurism model that funds services and employment for over 3,100 persons with disabilities in South Florida. Although most known for its Goodwill donation centers and retail stores, the organization’s other entrepreneurial businesses include Apparel Manufacturing, Custodial Services, Laundry Services and other Business Services, which directly train and employ a large number of people with disabilities while providing mission funding. South Florida’s Goodwill Industries is one of the most cost-effective non-profits in the U.S with 96% of its budget going directly to job training programs.
But our work is not easy or quick. It takes a long-term commitment to battle employment barriers such as physical or mental disabilities, economic instability, or lack of education. When you join the Goodwill Giving Circle, you join a select group of compassionate supporters who change the course of the 6,400 people we serve each year. Take that first step and show your goodwill.
