CUSTODIAN - SPHS

NATURE OF WORK

Maintains school and office buildings in clean and orderly conditions by performing the following duties.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Follows a cleaning routine on a regularly assigned "run" in consideration with on-going building use.
• Sweeps, mops, scrubs, and vacuums classrooms, hallways, office space, gymnasiums, performing arts centers, locker rooms, etc.
• Straights chairs, cleans chalk/white boards, empties pencil sharpeners.
• Cleans and sanitizes student and faculty restrooms, replacing paper products, etc.
• Empties trash and garbage containers.
• Maintains building, performing minor and routine maintenance activities such as replacing light bulbs, replacing pencil sharpeners, unclogging drains, removing graffiti, etc.
• Sets up and takes down special event equipment and furniture.
• Provides security to the campus during the evening hours, reporting or confronting individuals who are on campus without purpose.
• Washes windows, cleans blinds, waxes floors, shampoos carpets on a rotating or annual basis.
• Notifies Lead Custodian concerning need for major repairs.
• Cleans debris from sidewalks.
• May use pressure wash equipment.
• Locks and unlocks rooms for employees or outside groups using facilities.
• During winter and summer breaks, performs minor and routine painting and repair.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Custodians Assigned to Additional Sites

• Cleans debris from sidewalks, grounds and parking lots.
• Water and weeds shrubs and ground cover.
• May receive and distribute supplies and equipment; inventory and order custodial supplies.
• Patrol campus and parking lots where Adult Education classes are held to notify administration of unauthorized activity or persons on campus.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Some experience in institutional cleaning.
• Knowledge of modern cleaning methods, materials, tools, and equipment; maintenance principles and sanitation methods.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos; write simple notes/memos; answer questions and respond to requests from teachers, administrators, students and other employees; apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form; deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.
• Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's. Ability to perform these operations using units measurement.
• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, and outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; and toxic or caustic chemicals. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, and outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; and toxic or caustic chemicals. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.