Custodian

Performance Responsibilities

• Daily inspection of playground equipment and surfaces for safe use.
• Keeps building and premises, including sidewalks, driveways, and play areas neat and clean at all times.
• Shovels, plows, and salts walks, driveways, parking areas and steps, as appropriate.
• Checks daily to ensure all exit doors and gates are open or secured, as assigned.
• Raises the United States flag at or before 8:00 a.m. on each school day, and lowers it at the end of the day unless designated to others.
• Sweeps assigned classrooms daily and dusts furniture where assigned.
• Cleans corridors before or after school each day, and during the day when their condition requires it.
• Scrubs and disinfects toilet floors daily and cleans all sanitary fixtures and drinking fountains daily where assigned.
• Washes all windows on both the inside and outside at least twice each year, and more frequently if necessary.
• Keeps all floors in a clean and attractive condition and in a good state of preservation.
• Cleans all chalkboards and chalk trays daily, where assigned.
• Keeps all halls, ceilings, and ledges free of dust, cobwebs, and materials that do not belong.
• Performs minor repairs and reports major repairs promptly to Property Services.
• Learns the operation and maintenance of custodial equipment such as floor scrubbers, high-speed polishers and burnishers.
• Oils univents and cleans or replaces univent filters during summer vacation and winter vacation when time permits.
• Reports immediately to the principal any damage to school property.
• Remains on the school premises during school hours, and during non-school hours when the use of the building has been authorized and their attendance required by the principal with the exception of one-half hour lunch advising the office when leaving building.
• Assumes responsibility for the opening and closing of the building each school day and for determining, before leaving, that all doors and windows are secured, and all lights, except those left on for safety reasons, are turned on.
• Responsible for table set up and take down and the floors in the cafeteria for breakfast and lunch programs.
• Keeps an inventory of supplies, equipment, fuel on hand, and requisitions such needed replacements as necessary.
• Replaces all burned-out light bulbs or tubes and checks outside lights daily. If bulbs are higher than an eight-foot stepladder, maintenance will replace bulbs.
• Moves furniture or equipment within buildings as required for various activities and as directed by the principal.
• Performs summer vacation cleaning requirements.