Custodial Worker (CYS) NA-02

About the role

This position is located at FMWR Custodial Services, performing daily routine housekeeping duties in a child development center, school age care facility, or youth center.

Duties

• Preparing and delivering sanitizing bleach solution for use in classrooms, sanitizing toys that have been handled by children, replenishing classroom supplies such as hand soap and paper towels when required, delivering program supplies
• Emptying diaper pails and/or trash, returning food carts to the kitchen after meals and snacks, and cleaning up after classroom accidents (child illness and toileting, water on floor, etc) which may pose a threat to child safety
• Cleaning floors and tables after meals and snacks
• Providing routine light cleaning/dusting of classrooms/activity areas and materials as required
• Sweeping/mopping using standard equipment such as brooms and vacuum cleaners

Requirements

• Direct Deposit and Social Security Card required
• Meet qualification/eligibility/background requirements for this position
• A one-year probationary period may be required
• Satisfactorily complete an employment verification (E-Verify) check
• Appointment subject to favorable suitability determination
• All required background checks of AR 215-3, para.2 and the Crime Control Act must be successfully completed and maintained, including Child and Youth Tier 1 background investigation
• Current health assessment required
• Immunizations required including annual flu vaccination
• Must be willing and able to work on call, nights, evenings, days, weekends, and holidays

Qualifications

• Ability to perform the duties described without more than normal supervision
• Ability to dilute and use various cleaning and sanitizing solutions to disinfect items and/or remove different types of stains on varying surfaces
• Ability to keep things neat, clean, and in order
• Ability to follow instructions—must be able to speak and understand English
• Ability to use and maintain required tools and equipment (vacuum cleaners, brooms, mops)

Physical demands

• Moderately heavy physical effort used occasionally in moving, setting up, and working from ladders and scaffolds
• Use of heavy powered cleaning equipment (wall washers, industrial-type buffers) may be required, but not on a continual basis
• Occasionally lifts and moves objects weighing 40 pounds or more
• Usually works indoors in areas which normally have adequate heat, light, and ventilation
• Continually exposed to dust, dirt, and grease, and standing on concrete floors
• May be exposed to skin irritations from cleaning solutions
• Could be subject to falls from ladders or scaffolds