JANITOR

Job Summary

Receives specific oral or written instructions and assignments from supervisor or crew leader.

Maintains a specific area orderly and clean.

Sets up own schedule and sequence which states the required frequency of each task.

Scrubs, strips, waxes, and polishes floors using heavy industrial type vacuum cleaner.

Adjusts, cleans, and oils these machines and changes brushes, rollers, buffers, and other attachments.

Sweeps floor hallways, empties garbage, dusts office furniture, empties ash trays, shampoos rugs, cleans air vents, disinfects, and deodorizes toilet bowls, lavatories, etc.

Cleans and maintains machines, equipment, and makes adjustments accordingly.

Reports all equipment malfunctions to supervisor and performs minor repairs to equipment.

Removes stains from a variety of surfaces such as rugs, drapes, walls, floors, and fixtures by use of chemicals and cleaning solutions.

Moves heavy furniture, supplies, and equipment.

Cleans windows and doors inside and out at ground levels.

May operate a motor vehicle in the performance of the above duties on a limited basis.

Performs other related duties as assigned.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Moderately heavy physical effort is used occasionally in moving, setting up, and working from ladders and scaffolds.
• Frequently lifts and moves objects weighing about 40 pounds and occasionally objects weighing over 50 pounds.

WORKING CONDITIONS

• Indoors in areas which normally have adequate heat, light, and ventilation.
• Occasionally exposed to skin irritations from strong cleaning solutions.
• Possibility exists of serious disabling injury as a result of electrical shocks from power cleaning equipment or from falling scaffolds or ladders.

THIS POSITION IS PART OF OUR JANITOR-ROAD CREW.

YOU WILL BE DRIVING A GOVERNMENT VEHICLE IN THE GREAT LAKES, IL AREA, MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY**

MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN OR HAVE LIVED IN THE U.S.

Six months of experience performing cleaning tasks using standard or janitorial cleaning tools or industrial-type cleaning equipment.

Physical requirements:

• Moderately heavy physical effort is used occasionally in moving, setting up, and working from ladders and scaffolds.
• Frequently lifts and moves objects weighing about 40 pounds and occasionally objects weighing over 50 pounds.

Primary Location

• United States-Illinois-Great Lakes

Organization

• Recruit Training Command

Schedule

• Full-Time (35 + hours)

Unposting Date

Jul 15, 2026, 11:59:00 PM