Maintenance Custodian

Job No: SC24

Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Closing Date: 14 Jun 2014 AEST

• Are you a mechanically inclined individual?
  
• Join a company that truly understands its employees are its greatest asset.

About the Organization

ShoppersChoice.com, LLC own and operate a variety of web stores offering a wide range of specialty products - everything from outdoor fire pits to kitchenware. Growing from its beginnings as a brick-and-mortar business; The Grill Store & More in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the owners poured their heart and souls into its success and growth. Realizing the direction the market was heading and the untapped opportunities, they opened their first website in 2000 and expanded to a second a year later, www.BBQGuys.com became one of the world's leading websites for outdoor cooking products.

Dedicated to providing a top notch web experience to their customers, ShoppersChoice.com was formed in 2004 with the focus of becoming a true online superstore. Since then, the organization has launched many sister sites.

Striving to be trailblazers in the areas of customer service and product knowledge, ShoppersChoice.com have implemented personal touches that allow them to realize this goal, such as providing educational videos with company chef, Tony Matassa, sharing product knowledge, grilling techniques and his favorite grilling recipes.

About Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana, and its second largest city, it is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical and research center of the American South and has one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the US.

Through the years Baton Rouge has and continues to be shaped by a variety of environmental and cultural influences, with its unique blend of Cajun, Creole, Spanish, French and African-American history, it is embedded in Zydeco, Cajun and Blues music.

This colorful history mixed with its college town persona, makes Baton Rouge a unique place to live, with festivals year round, great food, lively sporting events and New Orleans just down the way, there is no better place to live and work!

About the Opportunity

The maintenance custodian works in offices, warehouses, and other building interiors. Maintenance custodians perform custodial duties to include overall building and grounds maintenance and repair functions.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Sweep and mop floors.
• Clean buildings by emptying trash, sweeping, and cleaning surfaces.
• Steam-clean carpets.
• Use cleaning solutions to remove stains and clean surfaces.
• Mix various cleaning agents.
• Clean windows, glass partitions, and mirrors, using soapy water or other cleaners, sponges, and squeegees.
• Dust furniture and scrub surfaces clean.
• Apply wax to coat floors and buff.
• Apply sealant to floors.
• Clean and service restrooms with mops and disinfectants.
• Mow lawns, trim shrubbery, plant flowers, and apply pesticides.
• Move heavy equipment and furniture.
• Identify and report possible repairs. 
• Provides maintenance and minor repairs to plumbing, electrical, and other miscellaneous items within company building.  May perform routine Carpentry work.
• Spray insecticides and fumigants to prevent insect and rodent infestation.

Skills and Specifications

• Plumbing, electrical and other trade skills are a plus.
• Bending, walking, pushing and lifting all day.  Subject to lifting over 50 pounds

About the Benefits

Upon joining ShoppersChoice.com, you will be met with a full scope of benefits in appreciation of your hard work and dedication on the job.

• Solid Benefits Retirement contribution;
• Free life insurance;
• 75% medical and GAP;
• Dental and vision;
• Supplemental insurance;
• Flexible PTO
• Employee discount on all merchandise;
• Gym discounts;
• PTGs "Paid Time Grilling" - get paid to learn the art of grilling!;
• Break room with Flat-Screens, Free Fountain Drinks and Staff Cook!;
• Educational hand-on training;
• Quarterly "After-Hour" parties;
• Friendly and supportive staff; and
• Open door management policy;

At ShoppersChoice.com, you come for the job, and stay for the opportunity. The company encourages promotions from within, and provides continuous training and professional development subsidies for all its employees. With all of these great benefits, why would you work anywhere else?

You'll also be joining a company that has been listed in the IR500 every year since 2004, and was also awarded Baton Rouge's Company of the Year in 2012 by Baton Rouge Business Report, so this is a great opportunity to be part of an organization that is known for excellence.

If you want to join a company that offers exciting projects, competitive compensation, and an engaging work environment, apply now!