Assistant Superintendent
Everstory Partners
Date: 6 hours ago
City: Flint, Michigan
Contract type: Full time
Job Type
Full-time
Description
Why Everstory
At Everstory Partners, our mission is to create supportive spaces where individuals and families can find solace, meaning, and hope in the midst of loss. At the heart of our mission is a deep understanding of the profound and complex nature of grief. Every person’s journey through loss is unique, and we are committed to providing compassionate and personalized support.
We also believe that grief is not a problem to be solved or a burden to manage alone, but rather a natural and beautiful part of the human experience. Backed by our national strength and our local partners’ role is to be a steady presence, a source of comfort and guidance, and a partner in celebrating the life and legacy of the person who has passed.
The Impact You Will Make
The Assistant Grounds Superintendent plays a key role in supporting the daily maintenance and operations of Everstory Partner’s cemetery and funeral home properties. Working closely with the Grounds Superintendent, this position helps ensure a safe and respectful environment for families and visitors while overseeing grounds keeping, equipment upkeep, and facility care. This role also includes hands-on landscape maintenance, equipment operation, and assisting with training and support for maintenance personnel when needed.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Everstory Partners is proud to provide our employees with a quality work environment and opportunity for both personal and professional growth. As part of our ongoing commitment, we offer a competitive benefits package for our Full-Time Employees including: Medical, Dental, 401k with a company match, Life, Short-Term Disability, Long-term Disability, Vision, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Discount Programs, Generous PTO Programs, Volunteer Opportunities & much more!
Everstory Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to employing a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.
Full-time
Description
Why Everstory
At Everstory Partners, our mission is to create supportive spaces where individuals and families can find solace, meaning, and hope in the midst of loss. At the heart of our mission is a deep understanding of the profound and complex nature of grief. Every person’s journey through loss is unique, and we are committed to providing compassionate and personalized support.
We also believe that grief is not a problem to be solved or a burden to manage alone, but rather a natural and beautiful part of the human experience. Backed by our national strength and our local partners’ role is to be a steady presence, a source of comfort and guidance, and a partner in celebrating the life and legacy of the person who has passed.
The Impact You Will Make
The Assistant Grounds Superintendent plays a key role in supporting the daily maintenance and operations of Everstory Partner’s cemetery and funeral home properties. Working closely with the Grounds Superintendent, this position helps ensure a safe and respectful environment for families and visitors while overseeing grounds keeping, equipment upkeep, and facility care. This role also includes hands-on landscape maintenance, equipment operation, and assisting with training and support for maintenance personnel when needed.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assists the Grounds Superintendent with ensuring the safety of all patrons who visit cemeteries and funeral homes and all employees. This includes enforcement of all policies and procedures.
- Manages all maintenance personnel to carry out maintenance on all properties, buildings, and fixtures while the Grounds Superintendent is away.
- Ensures maintenance of all StoneMor properties and their improvements, including buildings and their fixtures, equipment, and all operations.
- Assists the Grounds Superintendent in managing Maintenance Personnel support and ongoing training when necessary.
- Performs all landscape maintenance duties such as weed-whacking, lawn mowing, etc.
- Maintains equipment
- Operates machinery appropriately in a safe manor
- Installs or assists in installing cemetery vaults
- Installs headstones or memorials as needed
- Handles the day-to-day general maintenance duties
- Handles snow removal
- Performs other duties as assigned by the Grounds Superintendent.
- Position provides supervision of maintenance staff in the absence of the Grounds Superintendent.
- Compassion - Genuinely cares about people; is concerned about their work and non-work problems; is available and ready to help; is sympathetic to the plight of others not as fortunate; demonstrates real empathy with the joys and pains of others.
- Customer Focus - Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Ethics and Values - Adheres to appropriate (for the setting) and effective set of core values and beliefs during both good and bad times; acts in line with those values; rewards the right values and disapproves of others; practices what he/she preaches.
- High School equivalency required.
- 1+ years of grounds maintenance supervisory experience.
- 2+ years of mechanical/building maintenance experience.
- Cemetery work experience is preferred.
- Ability to supervise and train maintenance employees.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks with interruptions.
- Ability to operate maintenance equipment and machinery including backhoe and mowing/trimming equipment.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Excellent customer service, communication and interpersonal skills.
- Must have a valid state driver’s license.
Everstory Partners is proud to provide our employees with a quality work environment and opportunity for both personal and professional growth. As part of our ongoing commitment, we offer a competitive benefits package for our Full-Time Employees including: Medical, Dental, 401k with a company match, Life, Short-Term Disability, Long-term Disability, Vision, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Discount Programs, Generous PTO Programs, Volunteer Opportunities & much more!
Everstory Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to employing a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.
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