Cleaning Team Member - Part Time Temporary

About the role

The Cleaning Team Member – Part Time Temporary plays a vital role in creating a safe, welcoming, and student-ready campus environment that supports learning, belonging, and student success. Guided by a Human First philosophy and the College’s Maroon & Gold Standards (MGS), this position helps ensure that instructional, student-service, and common spaces are clean, secure, and well-maintained—contributing directly to students’ ability to focus, persist, and succeed.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the setup of facilities for meetings, classrooms, conferences, events, etc.
• Clean and sanitize restrooms/bathrooms using established practices and procedure.
• Clean areas around entrances to buildings including snow removal and salting.
• Clean, dust, and wipe furniture, whiteboard, lighting, and accessories; empty/clean wastebaskets and trash containers and refill restroom dispensers.
• Aid with the Event setup/teardown of facilities for meetings, classrooms, conferences, events, etc.
• Strip, clean, buff and apply floor sealer and floor finish to hard surface floors (where applicable); vacuum and shampoo carpets.
• Properly use and maintain assigned power equipment and hand tools; auto scrubbers/extractors, high pressure washers, high speed buffers, vacuums, brooms, mops, squeegees, and other related equipment common to the cleaning trade for use on floors, walls, windows, and furniture.
• Safely use ladders when required in work assignments.
• Lock and unlock assigned interior rooms in buildings: Check for unlocked doors and windows, report any unauthorized occupants, turn off lights.
• Operate snow removal equipment including snowbrush, truck/plow, and shoveling as needed.
• Move furniture, equipment, supplies and tools on an incidental basis.
• Wash accessible interior and exterior windows.
• Use caution around applied vinyl window graphics.
• Clean blinds.
• Maintain cleaning operations, improve quality, and build upon the institution's total commitment to student success.
• Monitor progress to set goals.
• Respond to work with a timely, professional, respectful, and proactive approach.
• Assist staff and teams within the Facilities Department with work requests, projects, and daily operations as needed.
• Work with customers to resolve problems and answer facility-related questions, which may include communicating work-arounds, determining scope, and estimating time of work.

  Qualifications

  • Knowledge of current cleaning methods, materials, and equipment used to maintain safe, healthy, and welcoming facilities for students, employees, and visitors.
  • Custodial practices, machinery, and related equipment that support consistent service quality and operational excellence.
  • Occupational hazards, safety precautions, and regulatory requirements necessary to protect the well-being of the campus community.
  • Proper operation, routine maintenance, and basic care of cleaning equipment to ensure reliable and efficient service delivery.
  • Read, understand, and follow safety procedures and material safety data sheets to maintain a safe environment for students, employees, and visitors.
  • Understand and carry out oral and written instructions in support of daily operations, campus events, and student-facing activities.
  • Communicate effectively and respectfully, both orally and in writing, in ways that reflect professionalism, teamwork, and MGS expectations.
  • Work collaboratively as a team member to support a positive campus climate and shared responsibility for student success.
  • Safely and responsibly use cleaning equipment and supplies while demonstrating care, stewardship, and attention to detail.
  • Perform a variety of custodial and cleaning tasks in a manner that supports clean, orderly, and student-ready facilities.

  Skills and Abilities

  • To read, understand, and follow safety procedures and material safety data sheets to maintain a safe environment for students, employees, and visitors.
  • To understand and carry out oral and written instructions in support of daily operations, campus events, and student-facing activities.
  • To communicate effectively and respectfully, both orally and in writing, in ways that reflect professionalism, teamwork, and MGS expectations.
  • To work collaboratively as a team member to support a positive campus climate and shared responsibility for student success.
  • To safely and responsibly use cleaning equipment and supplies while demonstrating care, stewardship, and attention to detail.

  Physical Demands

  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, toxic or caustic chemicals, and outside weather conditions.
  • The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

  Work Environment

  • The work environment characteristics describes here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, toxic or caustic chemicals, and outside weather conditions.
  • The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.