Porter

About the role

Atria Retirement Canada is hiring a Porter to help keep the community clean, safe, and welcoming for residents, visitors, and staff. The role supports day-to-day upkeep of apartments, offices, shared spaces, and outdoor areas, while contributing to a workplace where employees can grow and maintain a healthy work-life balance.

What you’ll do

• Clean offices, apartments, indoor common areas, outdoor shared spaces, and amenity areas so they remain neat and presentable.
• Handle floor care across carpet, tile, and wood surfaces, which may involve vacuuming, extraction, buffing, sealing, and stripping.
• Collect, compact, and dispose of trash and debris from community spaces.
• Keep sidewalks, walkways, stairways, building exteriors, and garden areas in clean and orderly condition.
• Carry out basic maintenance support tasks and respond to simple work requests.
• Mow lawns, trim shrubs, and tend flowers where applicable to the community.
• Report repair needs to management and escalate unsafe conditions to a supervisor without delay.
• Use cleaning supplies, caustic materials, and basic maintenance or landscaping tools safely and correctly.
• Follow all safety directions and complete the training programs required by Atria.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

What is required

• Ability to complete all training programs required by Atria.
• Comfort working with cleaning chemicals and equipment while following safety procedures.
• Enough English comprehension to read and follow safety instructions.
• Ability to do basic arithmetic, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with 10s and 100s, as well as use currency, weight, volume, and distance measurements.
• Capacity to work in routine situations with limited variation.
• Flexibility to work different shifts and schedules as needed.
• Ability to use basic hand tools and light power tools such as shovels, rakes, blowers, mowers, drills, saws, sanders, buffers, vacuum extractors, and similar equipment.

Benefits

• Paid holidays and paid time off.
• Annual anniversary rewards, starting at $500 for full-time employees depending on classification.
• Annual Scores Reward of $500 for full-time employees or $250 for part-time employees, subject to community survey results.
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage.
• Retirement savings plan with employer 401(k) match.
• Tuition reimbursement for U.S.-based communities.
• Supportive team environment with opportunities for advancement and work-life balance.

Additional information

Benefit enrollment depends on employee classification, and anniversary reward amounts can vary by location.