Night Custodian

About the role

Under direct supervision, incumbent(s) maintain assigned areas of buildings and grounds in a clean, sanitary, and safe condition. Incumbent(s) provide custodial care for District facilities by emptying trash, sweeping and vacuuming floors, cleaning classrooms and sanitizing bathrooms, picking up and maintaining cafeteria, and performing other custodial-related duties.

Essential Functions

• Cleans assigned school facilities for the purpose of maintaining a sanitary, safe and attractive environment.
• Sweeps, dusts, cleans, scrubs, strips, seals, waxes, polishes, and mops floors in classrooms, kitchens, dining halls, toilet rooms, offices, and similar facilities.
• Cleans, dusts, high dusts, and polishes woodwork, glass, hall lockers, furniture, air intake screens, and louvers, fixtures, and other installations.
• Removes spots from floors, walls, woodwork, furniture, and fixtures and cleans chalkboards and erasers.
• Washes and scrubs walls, lavatory fixtures, inside glass, windows, painted surfaces, and drinking fountains, and sanitizes refrigerators and beverage coolers.
• Maintains floors and sidewalks (e.g. sweeps, wet/dry mops, dust mops, vacuums carpets, etc.) for the purpose of ensuring safety and proper maintenance of facility.
• Sweeps and hoses blacktops, playgrounds, sidewalks, and parkways.
• Arranges tables, chairs, desks, etc. for the purpose of providing adequate preparation for classroom activities and events.
• Performs a variety of unscheduled custodial duties as requested by the school office and teachers.
• Maintains supplies and equipment for the purpose of ensuring the availability of items required to properly stock facilities.
• Serves soap dispensers, towel boxes, and similar facilities.
• Operates equipment, such as floor polishing and scrubbing machines, wall washing machines, steam shampooers, vacuum cleaners, and power sweepers.
• Secures campus by checking all doors, windows, and activating security system.
• Identifies and reports information regarding vandalism, theft, fire damage, and floods, and identifies, records, and reports maintenance needs.
• Affords security for buildings and grounds, contacts proper authority for assistance as needed.
• Locks and unlocks doors, gates, windows, and storerooms.
• Gathers and disposes of rubbish, paper, and debris, and empties and washes refuse containers.
• Performs other duties as required.

Required Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent (G.E.D.) prior to being hired;
• One year of custodial or maintenance-related experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent (G.E.D.) prior to being hired;
• One year of custodial or maintenance-related experience.

Knowledge and Skills

• Understanding various cleaning equipment used in a commercial environment;
• Understanding commercial cleaning chemicals;
• Complying with safety precautions, labels and warnings;
• Using tools to make minor repairs such as screwdrivers, hammers, wrenches and drills;
• Operating commercial grade cleaning equipment such as vacuums, floor buffers, floor wax applicators and cleaner/extractor machines;
• Reading instructions and following directions in the use of commercial grade cleaning supplies;
• Knowing methods of cleaning floors, lavatories, and other areas of school buildings;
• Knowing sterilization and sanitation methods used in custodial work;
• Understanding and following written and oral instructions;
• Recognizing maintenance needs and reporting to supervisor;
• Engaging and encouraging communication skills while interacting with supervisors, staff, students, etc. to exchange information.

Physical Requirements

• Regularly stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
• Frequently stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Occasionally sit, climb or balance, and taste or smell.
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
• Regularly exposed to fumes or airborne particles and outside weather conditions.
• Frequent exposure to risk of electrical shock.
• Occasional exposure to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold; extreme heat; and vibration.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Position Type

Full-Time

Salary

$15.15 to $17.12 Per Hour