Job title:Custodial Worker
Location:Nashville, Tennessee
Duration: 6 months
Description:
Minimum Qualification:
• High school diploma or GED equivalent; no previous experience required.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Performs general, routine custodial duties, to include dusting, mopping, vacuuming, cleaning restrooms, and restocking paper and soap supplies.
• Performs routine maintenance to custodial equipment and supplies.
• Empties trash receptacles, disposes trash into dumpsters, and bags trash for proper disposal.
• Unlocks doors, ensuring doors are locked after cleaning areas.
• Reports need and concerns to appropriate staff, which may include submitting or recommending work orders and checking supply levels.
• Ensure proper care in the use and maintenance of equipment and supplies; promotes continuous improvement of workplace safety and environmental practices.
• Assists in on-the-job training of new staff on routine procedures.
• Performs cleaning functions specific to the assigned facilities and/or based on seasonal/project requirements.
• May provide vendors with access to areas for cleaning and may answer basic questions. May report issues with vendors to supervisors.
• May assist or perform snow removal activities and minor maintenance, such as replacing light bulbs, adjusting furniture, or other similar activities.
• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
Knowledge:
Skills:
Ability
• Basic ability to build relationships with students, colleagues, and parents, and to provide individualized support and feedback.
• Basic ability to analyze problems, identify solutions, and adapt to changing circumstances.
• Advanced ability to understand and interpret codes, policies, regulations, and laws, age-appropriate activities, lesson planning, child development stages, and behavior management techniques.
• Intermediate ability to operate necessary tools and machinery for work tasks.
• Basic ability to collaborate with others in various situations, interpreting data through specific yet varied methods, and using standardized procedures to operate equipment.
• Intermediate ability to problem solve.
• Basic ability to build and maintain relationships.
• Basic ability to work flexible hours and adapt to shifting work demands.
• Basic ability to demonstrate tact and patience.
• Intermediate ability to keep confidential information.
• Basic ability to interact with a variety of people and/or teams, handle different types of data for various purposes, and use specialized equipment related to the job.