CUSTODIAN SUBSTITUTE

About the Role

Maintains school and office buildings in clean and orderly conditions.

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.
• Straightens 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.
• For assignments at Adult Education, Operations Center, District Service Center or other sites:
  • Cleans debris from sidewalks, grounds and parking lots.
  • Waters and weeds shrubs and ground cover.
  • May receive and distribute supplies and equipment; inventory and order custodial supplies.
  • May patrol campus and parking lots where Adult Education classes are held to notify administration of unauthorized activity or persons on campus.

Requirements

• 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.
  • Add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's.
  • Perform these operations using units of measurement.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
• Frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
• Occasionally required to climb or balance and taste or smell.
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Work Environment

• Frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, and outside weather conditions.
• Occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; and toxic or caustic chemicals.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Additional Notes

The individual assigned to this position must be able to work without direct supervision and demonstrate a commitment to providing a clean, safe, and healthy environment for students and staff. Must be responsive to the needs of the school with regard to cleaning and event requests and must embrace a concept of teamwork. Employees are expected to present a professional appearance at all times.