CUSTODIAN

Reports To: Director of Facilities Work Year Days: 12 month position (Monday-Friday) Work Hours: 2:30pm - 11:00pm Responsibilities: General Cleaning / Maintenance DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Experience Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to maintain and clean the school
• Ability to work as a team
• Ability to perform basic building repairs.
• Knowledge of appropriate sanitation and basic health procedures.
• Knowledge of basic heating and ventilation, electrical and plumbing systems.
• Ability to follow directions.
• Ability to lift items up to seventy-five pounds.
• Knowledge of alarm systems and assist with building security.
• Ability to safely utilize chemicals in cleaning and maintenance procedures.
• Ability to stand for long periods of time.
• Ability to utilize cleaning and maintenance equipment.
• Ability to operate power equipment such as buffer, scrubbers, lawn mowers, garden tools, snow blowers, hand tools, etc.
• Ability to work in a school environment and communicate with school personnel.
• Ability to learn basic system maintenance or demonstrate aptitude for such.
• Ability to work indoors and outdoors as deemed necessary and appropriate.
• Ability to work outdoors during inclement weather
• Ability to work at heights up to 40 feet from ladders, scaffolds and lifts
• Ability to change light bulbs, paint and have knowledge of light carpentry
• Maintain external grounds around the building as directed. Use outdoor power tools and lawn equipment.
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Facilities Director and Superintendent may find appropriate and acceptable.

Reports to: Facilities Director Job Goal: To provide students, staff and the community with a safe, attractive, comfortable, clean, and efficient school. Performance Responsibilities:

• Keep building and grounds including sidewalks and play areas neat and clean at all times.
• Assist in regulating heat, ventilation and air-conditioning systems including routine maintenance to provide temperatures appropriate to the season and to ensure economical usage of fuel, water, and electricity.
• Assist in shoveling or treating sidewalks and entrance areas.
• Clean all classrooms including dusting of furniture.
• Maintain all floor areas including stripping and waxing tile and/or linoleum floors and steam clean and vacuum rug areas.
• Change bulbs
• Check all doors to ensure they are appropriately secured.
• Secure building when departing and ensure all alarm systems are activated.
• Scrub and disinfect all toilets.
• Stock and clean all bathroom floors on a daily basis.
• Clean all sinks, mirrors and partitions daily
• Empty all classroom, office and bathroom trash and recycling daily
• Clean all sanitary fixtures and drinking fountains on a daily basis.
• Wash windows on a periodic basis on both the inside and outside.
• Empty all rubbish/recycling and keep grounds around the building free of rubbish.
• Clean all marker boards unless specifically directed to by a staff member or the principal.
• Make such building repairs as directed or known to him/her.
• Report immediately vandalism and damage to the facilities director and building principal.
• Report need for major repairs to the facilities manager.
• Weekly grounds mowing and weed whacking
• Remain on school premises during work hours and during non-school hours when the use of the building has been authorized and his/her attendance requested by the principal.
• Conduct an ongoing program of general maintenance.
• Comply with all local, state and federal laws and procedures for the storage and disposal of trash, chemicals, rubbish and waste.
• Assist in conducting periodic inspections of alarm and safety systems.
• Perform such other tasks and duties as the principal or the facilities manager may from time to time assign