Lead Custodian Office/On-site #260826-0428TC-001

Position Highlights

• Location: Bullard-Havens Technical High School in Bridgeport, CT
• Schedule: Full-time | First Shift | 37.5 hours per week | Monday – Friday | 6:00 am - 2:00 pm
• Note: This is a year round position

What’s In It For You

• Professional growth and paid professional development opportunities
• A healthy work-life balance to all employees
• State of Connecticut is an eligible Public Service Loan Forgiveness employer, meaning you may be eligible to have qualifying student loan forgiveness after 10 years of service

Your Role

As a Lead Custodian at Bullard-Havens Technical High School, you will play a vital role in maintaining a safe, clean, and welcoming learning environment for students, staff, and visitors. In this leadership role, you will serve as a working supervisor, guiding and supporting a team of custodians while ensuring the school is maintained to the highest standards. This position offers the opportunity to coordinate daily operations, prioritize and assign work, train and mentor staff, assist with performance evaluations, and collaborate with school personnel and outside partners to support efficient facility operations.

Purpose of Job Class

In a state agency this class is accountable for acting as a working supervisor for a crew of Custodians engaged in the cleaning of buildings.

Examples of Duties

• Plans crew workflow and determines priorities
• Schedules, assigns, oversees and reviews work
• Establishes and maintains crew procedures
• Provides staff training and assistance
• Conducts or assists in conducting performance evaluations
• Acts as liaison with operating units, agencies and outside officials regarding unit policies and procedures
• Ensures supplies and equipment for crew are adequate by reporting shortages to supervisor
• Performs full range of duties as outlined in Custodian class specification
• May make recommendations on policies or standards
• May prepare reports and correspondence
• Performs related duties as required

Knowledge, Skill and Ability

• Knowledge of building custodial and/or housekeeping work and related equipment
• Interpersonal skills
• Oral and written communication skills
• Ability to operate, care for and perform minor maintenance on tools and equipment used in daily work
• Ability to utilize computer software
• Supervisory ability

Minimum Qualifications

• One (1) year of experience in work that could reasonably be expected to provide the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed above

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading a crew of custodians in a school or commercial building
• Experience monitoring supplies and equipment for your team/crew and reporting shortages to supervisor
• Experience waxing and polishing floors using floor polishers and buffers
• Experience moving furniture in a school and/or setting up classrooms
• Experience removing snow and ice from stairways and walkways around schools or commercial buildings, using equipment such as a shovel, blower, or plow
• Experience performing minor maintenance on tools and equipment used in daily work
• Experience in deep cleaning, using sanitizing equipment and solutions

Special Requirements

• Incumbents in this class may be required by the appointing authority to possess and retain appropriate current licenses, permits and/or certifications.

Physical Requirements

• Incumbents in this class must have adequate physical strength, stamina, physical agility and visual and auditory acuity and must maintain such physical fitness as to be able to perform the duties. A physical examination may be required.

Working Conditions

• Incumbents in this class may be required to lift moderate to heavy weights and may be exposed to risk of injury from equipment and/or assaultive and/or abusive patients or clients.