Associate Custodian

About the role

Under the direction of the supervisor, performs general cleaning and maintenance in school buildings and grounds, maintains equipment in functional condition, and provides cleaning and custodial assistance to students, staff, teachers, administrators, visitors, and others, as necessary. Responsible to the head custodian for supervision, training, and monitoring of afternoon shift employees. May help with building security by locking/unlocking doors when requested and do final lock-up of the building at night including turning on security systems. May respond to an emergency to assist police and fire departments. Assigned work week and shift may vary. Attendance, physical presence, and timeliness are required and are essential functions of this position.

Responsibilities

• Assists with routine maintenance of school and district buildings.
• Checks and secures the building at the beginning and end of shift for the purpose of ensuring the safety and cleanliness of the building.
• Trains and monitors contract and hourly custodial employees.
• Cleans rooms, hallways, cafeterias, restrooms, offices, stairways, and other areas of the building according to district standards.
• Washes walls, ceilings, woodwork, windows, doors, sills, touchpoints.
• Maintains, cleans, and sanitizes restrooms.
• May fill soap, paper towel, toilet paper, and other dispensers.
• Mops or runs auto scrubber.
• Extracts/bonnets carpets.
• Assists with floor refinishing.
• May be CPR and First Aid trained to respond to emergencies.
• Cleans up body fluids following bloodborne pathogen procedures.
• Removes garbage.
• Maintains grounds which includes mowing and edging lawns, removing snow, ice, debris, weeding, raking, watering, sweeping, etc.
• May remove graffiti and repair other acts of vandalism.
• Cleans up garbage, repairs furniture, lockers, doors, and small equipment.
• Performs minor repairs as able to windows, doors, switches, desks, tables, equipment and appliances, sinks, toilets, blinds, etc.
• May assemble new equipment and furniture.
• Prepares and sets up rooms for meetings and activities and cleans up afterwards.
• Maintains swimming pools including chemical maintenance according to outlined standards.
• Helps maintain and operate mechanical systems.
• Assists in restricting access by locking and unlocking doors.
• Involved with security of the building after hours.
• Turns on/off security systems and locks/unlocks the building.
• Performs duties in a manner to maintain an 80% or higher VEKTR inspection.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum of one (1) year of successful experience as a journeyman custodian or equivalent position.

Skills

• Skilled in training, organizing, and monitoring supervised workers.
• Knowledgeable about ventilating and heating systems, and swimming pools.
• Ability to operate and maintain basic cleaning equipment, including but not limited to buffers, extractors, and auto scrubbers.
• Skilled in the use of general maintenance hand tools, small and large power tools.
• May perform minor adjustments to equipment.
• Understanding of basic use of cleaning solvents and their proper application.
• Understanding of emergency procedures such as shelter-in-place and lockdown protocols, fire and earthquake drills, building and grounds layout for emergency shutoffs and vandalism.
• Ability to follow oral and/or written requests from supervisor.
• Basic reading and math skills.

Supervisory Responsibility

• Supervise and provide assistance to contract and hourly custodial employees.

Working Environment

Works inside and outside the building to accomplish assigned tasks. Working conditions can be in hot and cold weather. Hazards may exist when using power equipment, ladders, scaffolds, mopping, using buffers on wet floors, and when working with chemicals. Frequent interruptions with daily work may occur. Respond, when called, to after-hours emergencies. May experience stress from disruptive students and/or groups of students. Must receive proper training from the head custodian when working with cleaning chemicals and must be handled properly.

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to speak and/or hear. Frequently required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel, and crouch. Occasionally required to use hands to handle or feel and must occasionally climb or balance. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception. Must be able to stand for long periods of time and lift and/or move up to 100 lbs.