This Pierce County job comes with a 2-bedroom apartment on-site. Here’s how to apply
The Key Peninsula Civic Center is hiring for several positions, including a custodian who will live on-site.
“The compensation package includes a 2-bedroom apartment on the Civic Center grounds as the Custodian’s residence,” the job posting said. “Water, heat, electricity, laundry facilities, and internet service for the apartment are also included. The Custodian is paid an hourly wage, a percentage of which goes towards fair market rent for the apartment, with the remaining percentage paid to the employee twice per month.”
The job posted to indeed.com Jan. 26, 2022. Some of the duties are cleaning the facility, greeting renters, locking and unlocking the facility and gates, being a contact for deliveries, stocking cleaning supplies, maintaining the grounds, and reporting to the board.
“Benefits include paid holidays, accrued vacation time, two parking stalls, and a company mobile phone,” the posting said.
The job is 30 hours a week and requires some evening and weekend work. Key Peninsula residents are encouraged to apply.
The custodian and maintenance worker for the past 12 years is retiring, Civic Center Association Board president Chuck Davis said.
The apartment is in the annex building where the office and history museum are, Davis said, not the building that houses the gymnasium.
“It’s a security type of role, but it’s not security work, if that makes sense,” Davis said. “They’re kind of there in the event of an emergency after hours. ... If they have maintenance skills, that’s an added bonus.”
The Civic Center also is looking for a maintenance technician to work 20 hours a week. That job involves maintaining the generator and boiler, minor electrical repairs, maintaining equipment and appliances and general repairs, among other duties. The technician will be a point of contact for contractors on capital projects, will do progress reports for capital project grants and will make capital project reports to the board.
Additionally, the Civic Center is hiring a volunteer coordinator to work 10 hours a week to go through volunteer applications, schedule volunteers, cover the front desk, handle rental requests and promote events, among other duties.
Visit kpciviccenter.org/civic-center-jobs.html for more information. Resumes can be emailed to office@kpciviccenter.org or submitted through indeed.com.
Davis said they’re hoping to contact finalists at the end of February or early March.
“If they want to help preserve a piece of history in Washington, there’s no better place to do it,” Davis said.
The Civic Center is at 17010 S Vaughn Road NW. It was originally a school. In addition to being a rental facility, it now hosts community meetings, skate nights, serves as an open gym and becomes a warming and cooling center for the community during inclement weather.
This story was originally published January 31, 2022 at 5:00 AM.
