Custodial Worker 1

About the role

The Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA) is seeking a Custodial Worker 1 to support the Gino J. Merli Veterans’ Center. The position helps keep resident areas, public spaces, and work areas clean and welcoming, creating an environment where veterans, their spouses, and staff can feel comfortable and supported every day.

Responsibilities

• Deep Cleaning: Thorough cleaning of resident rooms, common areas, offices, medical spaces, kitchen areas, vehicles, and public areas.
• General Cleaning: Mopping, scrubbing, waxing, polishing, dusting, sweeping, and buffing surfaces and fixtures.
• Restroom Care: Clean and sanitize all restrooms and restock needed supplies.
• Waste Handling: Empty waste containers, dispose of trash and recyclable materials, and collect infectious waste for proper storage.
• Room Preparation: Clean, sanitize, rearrange, and organize resident rooms prior to occupation; move furniture and equipment as needed.
• Safety and Support: Maintain a safe work environment, report hazards, assist with snow removal, and help train new employees.

Qualifications

• Must be able to perform essential job functions.
• Willingness to work in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
• Willingness to work a full‑time schedule (37.5 hours per week) and the designated shift (6:45 AM – 2:45 PM).
• Work experience as a custodian, janitor, or cleaning person (e.g., cleaning restrooms, resident rooms, offices, or public areas; mopping, scrubbing, dusting, sweeping, and buffing).
• Experience in an assisted‑living facility, nursing home, or hospital is preferred.
• Experience interacting with patients or residents while cleaning in patient or resident rooms or a dining‑room setting.
• Experience cleaning bodily fluids and disposing of infectious waste properly.
• Experience removing snow, trash, and debris from sidewalks and entrance ways.
• Experience using and mixing chemicals or solvents.
• Experience operating manual or power equipment to mop, scrub, sweep, strip, wax, and buff floors.
• Custodial work experience in environments such as activity or recreation rooms, bathrooms, showers, cafeterias, lobbies, common spaces, nursing stations, patient or resident rooms, pharmacies, or physical‑therapy rooms.
• Legal requirements: Conditional offer of employment will require a medical examination; submission and approval of satisfactory criminal‑history reports (PA State Police and FBI clearance); compliance with the Older Adult Protective Services Act.

Schedule

• Full‑time employment, 37.5 hours per week.
• 1st shift: 6:45 AM – 2:45 PM with a 30‑minute lunch break.
• Alternating weekends.
• No telework option.