Custodial Worker 1

About the role

Start a career where your work helps create a clean, welcoming, and safe environment for honored veterans. As a Custodial Worker 1 with the Southwestern Veterans' Center, you will take pride in keeping living and common areas fresh and comfortable for residents and staff. This role lets you build dependable cleaning skills while supporting a meaningful mission. Join a dedicated team that values quality, care, and teamwork every day! Click here to learn more about the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.

Responsibilities

• Deep Cleaning: Perform deep cleaning in resident rooms, offices, common areas, medical spaces, and public locations throughout the facility
• General Cleaning: Complete daily cleaning tasks such as mopping, dusting, polishing, scrubbing, sweeping, and buffing a wide range of surfaces and furnishings
• Sanitation Duties: Clean and sanitize all restrooms and maintain hygienic conditions in high-traffic areas
• Waste Management: Empty waste containers, handle recycling materials, and dispose of infectious waste in proper storage areas
• Supply Tasks: Restock soap, paper products, cleaning chemicals, and other supplies to keep areas prepared and functional
• Room Preparation: Clean, organize, and rearrange resident rooms before new occupants arrive

Schedule

• Full-time employment (7.5 hours per day; 37.5 hours per week)
• Work hours are 6:30 AM to 2:30 PM (1st shift), with a 30-minute lunch
• In this role, you will work every other weekend and alternating holidays
• Telework: You will not have the option to telework in this position

Qualifications

• You must be able to perform essential job functions
• Willing and able to work in Allegheny County, PA
• Able to work 6:30 AM to 2:30 PM
• Experience as a custodian, janitor, or cleaning person (Experience might include such things as cleaning restrooms; cleaning resident rooms, offices or public areas; mopping, scrubbing, dusting, sweeping, buffing, etc.)
• Experience interacting with patients or residents while cleaning in patient/resident rooms or a dining room setting
• Experience cleaning bodily fluids and disposing infectious waste into proper storage areas

Legal Requirements

• A conditional offer of employment will require a medical examination
• This position falls under the provisions of the Older Adult Protective Services Act
• Under the Act, a conditional offer of employment will require submission and approval of satisfactory criminal history reports, including but not limited to, PA State Police and FBI clearance

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