**INTERNAL ONLY** Lead Custodian (10:30pm - 7am)

Position Overview

The Lead Custodian position is responsible for maintaining cleanliness and sanitation across bath facilities, common areas, entrances, and ensuring a safe and welcoming environment. In addition to performing custodial duties, the Lead Custodian provides direction and training to custodial staff, reinforces workflow and quality standards, leads project and floor care teams, assists with training, and supports staff with computer-based tasks. The position also includes managing supplies and equipment, maintaining inventory, and ensuring proper storage and maintenance. This position requires operation of University vehicles.

Custodial Services

Custodial Services within KU Operations plays a vital role in ensuring facilities are clean, safe, and healthy environments in which to live, learn, and work. KU Operations supports KU’s mission of learning, scholarship, and creative endeavor by providing the visible and behind-the-scenes services that make possible the university’s academic and research missions.

Job Description

• Bath Facilities: Office, Classroom and Facilities Maintenance: Vacuums, bonnets and extracts carpeted areas using appropriate equipment and chemicals. Dust mops clean tile floors, wet mops stains and spots on tiled floors using paid method and semi-automatic scrubbers. Empties trash, using special care in research and lab areas, cleans containers and replaces liners. Dusts furniture, blinds and other surfaces. Cleans glass, ledges, chalk and dry marker boards. Some work locations require attention to bio-hazards.
• Hallways, Stairways, Elevators, Entrances and Exteriors: On resilient surfaces, dust mops, scrubs and burnishes with a variety of specialized equipment. Wet mops spots and stains on tiled areas and floor mats. Spot cleans walls, doors, carpets, jams, and kickplates. Washes windows and rails. Dusts and polishes surfaces. Cleans fire extinguisher cases and reports damaged and/or missing equipment to the supervisor. Cleans display cases, drinking fountains, furniture, etc. Cleans exterior entrances daily, removing snow and ice when necessary. Checks and maintains exterior areas, handicap access ramps and equipment, elevator cabs and doors, etc.
• Floor Maintenance: Strips floors, chemical detergent scrubs in non-carpeted areas. Burnishes tile floors, bonnets and deep extracts carpeted areas, cleans and maintains specialty floors such as wood, cork, quarry tile, etc. using a variety of automatic equipment. Follows associated safety procedures in order to avoid injury to self, others, and equipment damage.
• Supplies, chemicals, and equipment maintenance: Help assure availability of necessary tools, materials and equipment and provide for proper storage. Maintain equipment inventory. Follows safety policies regarding use of supplies, tools, and equipment. Maintain records of equipment. Ensure supply rooms are kept neat and tidy. Take supply inventory. Equipment used ranges from hand tools to more advanced high-speed and semi-automatic cleaning equipment. Performs daily required maintenance on a variety of tools and equipment. Maintains clean, organized, and stocked supply carts/closets, etc. Reports equipment repair and maintenance needs/concerns to supervisor. Mixes caustic and/or toxic chemicals to MSDS specifications to avoid improper use or exposure to self or others. Includes cleaning storage and operation areas.
• Other assigned tasks: Performs other duties related to cleaning or maintenance as assigned including working at similar tasks in another facility to cover for absent staff or extra staffing needs. Moves equipment and supplies in and out of campus buildings as directed to clean. Assists with snow removal and surface treatment. May write work orders, estimates of time and materials needed. Inform supervisor regarding work progress and operational problems. Notify supervisor of employee performance and conduct.

Position Requirements

• Ability to lift and/or carry up to 30 pounds frequently and the ability to lift and/or carry up to 50 pounds occasionally with or without accommodation.
• Ability to bend, stoop and/or kneel frequently.
• Physical strength sufficient to stand the strain of working long hours at custodial tasks.
• Willingness and ability to work overtime as needed.
• Willingness and ability to work under a variety of extreme temperature and weather.

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Three (3) years custodial work that involves hands on cleaning.
• One (1) year of custodial work that involves floor care, to include scrubbing, stripping, and waxing hard surface floors. Also, to include experience in carpet cleaning involving the use of carpet shampooing/extracting equipment.
• Valid driver’s license at time of hire and maintained throughout employment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Custodial experience in large residential or commercial buildings as evidenced by application materials.
• Advanced training in custodial and high-volume cleaning operations as evidenced by application materials.
• Experience interacting with customers and/or the public as evidenced by application materials.
• Leadership experience and/or training as evidenced by application materials.