About This Role
This role involves providing unskilled and diversified duties related to the general extermination of buildings, grounds, and equipment. The Exterminator applies various baits, gels, and chemicals according to safety standards to eradicate insects, bed bugs, rodents, and pests from Authority properties, and also provides general assistance to other staff as required.
Responsibilities
- Inspect, monitor, and treat all apartment units and common areas of properties
- Follow and implement PHA Integrated Pest Management Practices and Procedures
- Apply all products necessary to control pests, including, but not limited to ants, cockroaches, bed bugs, bees, mice, and rats
- Work with outside contractors to extricate infestations should they become acute or beyond the control of in-house staff
- Maintain expertise in the field and recommend appropriate products and equipment to control pests
- Perform unskilled tasks in the maintenance of properties and grounds
- Clean units before and after vacancy, remove trash, wash/vacuum floors, clean windows, walls, floors and fixtures
- Mow, weed, prune shrubbery, water plants/lawns and fertilize grounds
- Plow, shovel, sand and remove snow and ice
- Lift, load and move heavy objects, stoves, refrigerators, furniture, building materials and supplies
- Sweep and pick up common areas, parking lots and grounds
- Drive agency vehicles delivering/removing supplies, materials and trash
- Dig trenches and holes in preparation of other work
- Use a variety of hand tools and implements for custodial and grounds work
- Perform general cleaning, custodial and routine upkeep of properties, grounds and common areas as assigned
- Assume responsibility for the safe, sanitary and attractive maintenance of grounds, common areas within assigned locations
- Perform custodial tasks throughout agency properties, common areas (community rooms), offices and maintenance shops
- Respond to work orders issued for minor repairs and general upkeep of assigned areas
- Account for basic supplies, materials, tools and equipment stored at areas of assignment
- Operate agency vehicles (up to 2 ton capacity), as assigned
Requirements
- Ability to understand English language to an acceptable level for productivity standards
- High school diploma
- 2 years’ experience in the application of exterminating products and devices
- Rhode Island (Class 2) driver's license unrestricted except for corrective lenses
- Ability to maintain confidentiality in all assignments as mandated
- Ability to work harmoniously with other agency personnel
