CUST CREW LDR M

Salary Schedule

About the Role

Under direction, this position functions as a crew leader master for custodial personnel engaged in highly responsible custodial tasks for an assigned school of the district. Employees in this class are responsible for monitoring, training, assigning, reviewing, planning, and coordinating the work of crew leaders who oversee custodial crews. Responsibilities include training crew leaders and custodians, developing daily and weekly cleaning work schedules, inspecting facilities and grounds for hazardous conditions, and maintaining adequate supply inventories. The position oversees and participates in all facets of the assigned work.

Responsibilities

• Responds to internal and external customers in a timely, accurate, courteous, and empathetic manner, representing OCPS in a positive light.
• Coordinates and plans the work of custodial crew leaders; delegates tasks to custodial personnel; monitors and inspects custodial work for compliance with assignments.
• Provides training and instruction to custodial personnel when weaknesses are observed; ensures compliance with established regulatory standards concerning the safe use and application of chemical supplies (OSHA).
• Inspects grounds and facilities for hazardous conditions and assigned zones for proper cleaning and sanitizing.
• Monitors materials inventory and supply levels; orders new stock according to established policies; coordinates custodial equipment service and/or repair as needed.
• Monitors and maintains the custodial budget within the facility.
• Directs and assigns custodial crews in major custodial projects, such as seasonal facility preparations or floor stripping and waxing.
• Uses appropriate chemicals and cleaners safely and productively according to instructions and established State Department of Education regulations to ensure personal, student, public, and staff safety.
• Performs sanitizing tasks in various facility areas, such as restrooms, kitchens, food areas, and cafeterias, as well as other custodial tasks as needed.
• May perform physically demanding tasks requiring the use of heavy custodial equipment, such as mopping, stripping, waxing, and floor buffing.
• Responds to emergency situations to confine, resolve, or prevent injurious or otherwise hazardous conditions, such as spills, broken windows, or broken locks.
• Notifies appropriate personnel of equipment malfunctions and facility maintenance needs.
• Moves furniture and other equipment as necessary.
• Performs routine maintenance on facility custodial equipment, such as changing vacuum cleaner belts and bags, and changing buffer machine pads.
• Performs non-cleaning tasks in general facility maintenance, such as changing light bulbs, filling paper and soap dispensers, and assisting in setting up for meetings/conferences.
• Keeps up to date on current technology relevant to the job and attends training to ensure required skill levels.
• Ensures timely and accurate information management as part of job responsibilities.

Marginal Functions

• Performs custodial tasks, such as emptying and cleaning waste receptacles, washing windows, dusting furniture, and cleaning vents, fans, and walls.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• At least five (5) years of previous successful custodial work experience with demonstrated leadership abilities, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Must obtain Master Custodian certification issued by the Florida School Plant Management Association (FSPMA) within one (1) year of obtaining this position.
• Effective March 19, 2007, all new hires to this position must successfully complete the Industrial Physical Capability Screening (IPCS); previous incumbents without a break in service are exempt.

Performance Aptitudes

• Data Utilization: Ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize, and analyze data and information, exercising discretion in data classification and referencing analysis to established standards.
• Human Interaction: Ability to provide leadership, guidance, assistance, and interpretation to others on applying procedures and standards to specific situations.
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Ability to operate, maneuver, and control electrically powered custodial equipment and hand-held supplies and cleaning tools.
• Verbal Aptitude: Ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, design, and advisory data and information.
• Mathematical Aptitude: Ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and calculate decimals and percentages.
• Functional Reasoning: Ability to apply principles of rational systems, interpret instructions in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form, and exercise independent judgment to modify methods and standards as needed.
• Situational Reasoning: Ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness, and creativity in evaluating information against measurable or verifiable criteria.

ADA Compliance

• Physical Ability: Tasks involve exerting heavy physical effort in heavy work, including climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling objects weighing 20-50 pounds (occasionally up to 100 pounds).
• Sensory Requirements: Tasks may require the ability to perceive and discriminate odors, depths, and oral communications; most tasks require visual perception and discrimination.
• Environmental Factors: Tasks are regularly performed with potential exposure to adverse conditions, such as strong odors, fumes, dust, wetness, humidity, machinery, vibrations, temperature and noise extremes, disease, pathogenic substances, and toxic/poisonous agents.

The Orange County School District will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to allow them to perform the essential functions of the job when such individuals request an accommodation.