JANITOR

About the role

Performs a full range of cleaning tasks involved in the maintenance of a designated area utilizing heavy industrial-type equipment.

Responsibilities

• 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 cleaners; adjusts, cleans, and oils these machines and changes brushes, rollers, buffers, and other attachments.
• Sweeps floors and hallways, empties garbage, dusts office furniture, empties ashtrays, shampoos rugs, cleans air vents, disinfects and deodorizes toilet bowls and lavatories.
• Washes and replaces venetian blinds, washes ceiling fixtures, changes light bulbs and room partitions using ladders and scaffolds.
• Cleans and maintains machines and equipment; reports malfunctions to supervisor and performs minor repairs.
• Removes stains from rugs, drapes, walls, floors, and fixtures using 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.

Requirements

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

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 of serious disabling injury as a result of electrical shocks from power cleaning equipment or from falling scaffolds or ladders.

Schedule

Part-time (20 - 34.5 hours)

Location

Goose Creek, South Carolina, United States