Head Night Custodian at Robbinsdale Armstrong High School

About the role

Head Night Custodian position available at Robbinsdale Armstrong High School. Shifts are from 3:00 pm to 11:30 pm, 8.5 hours per evening with 8 hours of paid time and 30 minutes of unpaid meal time. Salary range is $29.78 to $30.90 per hour plus benefits.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for facility alarms, curtailment events, and emergencies outside of regular business hours.
• Supervise building custodial staff, maintain building systems and equipment, direct and oversee preventative and day-to-day building maintenance, ensure overall building cleanliness, and supervise building security and safety operations.
• Perform preventative maintenance service and troubleshooting of facility systems including mechanical and electrical equipment in accordance with district standards and guidelines.
• Operate, schedule and utilize building security systems in accordance with district standards and guidelines.
• Operate, schedule and use building HVAC and lighting automation control systems in accordance with district standards and guidelines.
• Utilize electronic work order system to submit work requests to accurately enter data in work order system to document repair and preventative maintenance work task hours, materials utilized, condition status and task completion information and to identify and address open work orders.
• Set up rooms for conferences, classes and special events.
• Maintain cleanliness and condition of assigned area following district standards and guidelines for use of equipment and materials.
• Monitor and secure building door security systems, respond to building alarms, perform triage response, and perform tasks in accordance with district standards and guidelines.
• Comply with established timelines, procedures and quality for completion of assigned tasks.
• Execute initiative in recognizing and performing tasks that need attention or that require completion.
• Follow district safety standards and guidelines when performing position responsibilities.
• Practice fiscal responsibility related to efficient use of materials, care of equipment, recycling, energy conservation, and inventory control.
• Lead other custodial staff to efficiently perform and complete assigned work in the absence of the building supervisor.
• Carry District cell phone in a District provided case that is powered on and charged during work hours.
• Participate in snow removal.
• Attend district meetings, mandated training sessions and participate in a positive manner.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Reside within 30 miles of the assignment facility to help address building alarm, service, and curtailment needs.
• Demonstrated ability to investigate, diagnose, troubleshoot and respond to building system service needs.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and perform position responsibilities with a minimum of supervision.
• Establish and maintain positive and effective working relationships with supervisor, coworkers, building staff and visitors.
• Able to follow schedules and adjust priorities based on needs and, when emergencies occur, triage the situation and perform essential tasks to address the situation.
• Sufficient reading skills to read and comprehend material data sheets, building plans, specifications and operation and maintenance manuals.
• Mechanical aptitude and skills to perform service, troubleshooting and repairs to facility systems.
• Prior maintenance experience.
• First class boiler's license (current, posted and maintained) required, or willing and able to obtain within an agreed timeline.
• Knowledge of district current cleaning products, equipment and tools and their proper use and cleanup.
• Able to attend work regularly and report to work in a timely manner.
• Ability to listen and detect noise related indications of equipment problems or distress.
• Ability to effectively perform preventative maintenance, troubleshooting and repairs of building equipment in accordance with manufacturer recommendations and district standards and guidelines.
• Ability to efficiently and safely operate snow removal equipment and to apply deicing materials in accordance with district standards and guidelines.
• Ability to properly control and use hand tools, test equipment, powered tools and powered equipment required for facility maintenance.
• To retain facility training information and to consistently follow district standards and guidelines for facility systems.
• Ability to remember assigned-unique Lenel System username and password and to execute the log-on to the Lenel System without any public display of that login information.
• Ability to review and adjust building control system to reflect dates and hours of actual building occupancy, special events and permit events.
• Ability to schedule doors to lock/unlock for a programmed special event period without changing the default door schedule for other weekly door schedules in the Lenel Time Schedule System.
• Ability to review existing schedules to prevent overriding of existing schedules that are required to remain in effect for building programming.
• Ability to investigate system malfunction of a programmed door schedule in the Lenel Time Schedule Systems.
• Ability to utilize the emergency lock/unlock feature in the Lenel Door Access Control System.
• Ability to contact others when assistance is required to resolve facility problems.
• Ability to force arm when extensive facility services are needed and others have been informed of the facility service need.

Desired Training

• VoTech education or training in building maintenance or construction of electrical or mechanical systems is desired.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to routinely perform strenuous labor.
• Frequently utilize test equipment, hand tools, power tools and powered equipment for building maintenance service and repairs.
• Willing and able to use PPE when required.
• Frequently lift and move tables, desks and chairs weighing up to of 50 pounds.
• Frequently lift cartons, boxes and buckets weighing up to of 50 pounds.
• Frequently climb flights of stairs.
• Frequently carry and use a back-pack vacuum.
• Frequently access and use vertical fixed ladders and folding ladders to a height of 16 feet.
• Periodically access and use movable vertical lift equipment and scaffolds to a height of 25 feet.
• Periodically access and perform maintenance work on building rooftop areas.
• Periodically access and perform work in building tunnel systems.