Are you a skilled maintenance professional looking for a role where your work directly impacts the well-being of animals and the community? At Humane Colorado, we're seeking a Facilities Maintenance Technician to ensure our shelters operate safely, smoothly, and efficiently.
This is more than a job—it's a chance to join a mission-driven team and make a difference while honing your skills across diverse trades like plumbing, electrical, HVAC, carpentry, and landscaping.
Purpose of Position: Provide facilities support to Humane Colorado properties and associated assets in the areas of electrical, plumbing, HVAC, grounds maintenance and other miscellaneous facilities support.
Responsibilities
People Care
People are the key to fulfilling our mission. Making internal and external patrons and their needs a primary focus is expected in all situations. This position interacts with and collaborates with employees at all levels of the organization. Communication occurs through face to face, telephone, and electronic interactions and may also include contact with the general public and Humane Colorado business partners. Communication and contact must be clear, understandable, cooperative, professional and respectful in all circumstances. Employees are expected to actively support a positive team environment, directly address conflict, and appropriately express concerns.
Key Competencies
Key competencies are work behaviors and expectations necessary for successful job performance. They encompass knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes and actions. Additional definitions for competencies may be obtained from Human Resources.
Organizational Key Competencies
Position Key Competencies
Supervisory or Managerial Responsibility
Travel
Full Time Benefits – Please visit our website for a comprehensive list of all offered benefits.
Compensation: $20.80 - $24.00 per hour (starting pay commensurate with market, experience, and equity)
Schedule: 40 hours/week, Four 10-hour shifts, Sunday - Wednesday, some on-call required
Work Conditions and Physical Requirements
Performs work primarily in a shelter environment and outdoor setting. Potentially prolonged periods of standing, movement, and repetitive motion. May work in an area with high noise level. Potentially subject to animal bites and scratches. Frequent lifting up to 75 lbs. with reasonable accommodation. May require after hours response for emergencies or snowstorms (24 hours a day, 7 days a week). Work outside in extreme weather, both heat and cold. Exposure to chemicals and other general maintenance hazards.
Posting will remain open until filled, with a minimum posting period of 5 days.
Requirements
Qualifications
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
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Our Mission
Working with our compassionate community, we will end pet homelessness and animal suffering.
About Us
For 115 years, Humane Colorado, formerly the Dumb Friends League has been working to end pet homelessness and animal suffering by providing a strong and steadfast voice for those who cannot speak for themselves. As the largest community-based animal welfare organization in the region, we care for more than 21,000 homeless pets and horses each year.
Humane Colorado is the only animal champion with unmatched expertise who provides compassionate care through the most comprehensive, direct services for any pet in Colorado who is vulnerable to homelessness, suffering and abuse because every pet in our community deserves to be nurtured, safe and cherished. We will work together in a united coalition to promote socially conscious sheltering to create the best outcomes for all animals, promote safe communities and nurture the human-animal bond.
Humane Colorado has five facilities, including:
• Two shelters for homeless pets that offer adoptions, pet admissions, lost-and-found services and humane education classes for the public:
The Leslie A. Malone Center in Denver
The Buddy Center in Castle Rock
• The Harmony Equine Center, a private rehabilitation and adoption center for equine victims of mistreatment, as well as horses that come from partner humane societies and rescue groups to receive professional training and opportunities for new lives.
• Veterinary Hospital at CSU Spur, a full-service animal hospital for owned pets to prevent and alleviate suffering in pets whose caretakers would otherwise be unable to provide this medical care.
