Custodian: Full-time, 3rd Shift

Position Summary: This position is responsible for performing general cleaning and maintenance duties. Custodians work as a team and carry out duties independently. This job requires sitting, standing, walking, and lifting.

JOB GOAL: To maintain the physical school facilities and grounds in a condition of operating excellence so that full educational use of them may be made at all times.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Strives constantly to promote the safety, health, and comfort of the students, community, and staff.
• Keeps building and premises, including sidewalks, driveways, and play areas neat and clean at all times.
• Shovels and sands walks, driveways, parking areas, and steps, as appropriate.
• Sweeps classrooms and dusts furniture.
• Cleans corridors after school.
• Scrubs, hoses down, and disinfects toilet floors, and cleans all sanitary fixtures and drinking fountains.
• Washes all windows on both the inside and outside.
• Keeps the grounds free from rubbish.
• Performs such yard keeping chores as grass cutting, tree trimming, and the like, as necessary, to maintain the school grounds in a safe and attractive condition.
• Keeps all floors in a clean and attractive condition and in a good state of preservation through the use of power floor equipment.
• Makes such minor building repairs as he/she is assigned.
• Reports major repairs needed promptly to the lead custodian or head custodian.
• Reports immediately to the lead custodian or head custodian any damage to school property.
• Complies with local laws and procedures for the storage and disposal of trash, rubbish, and waste.
• Assumes responsibility for the safe conditions of the swimming pool, if the building he/she serves has one.
• Completes all tasks as outlined in the Daily Cleaning Program developed for each building.
• Properly handles and discards all recyclable materials.
• Complies with district custodial directives as outlined in the Custodial Work Rules Program.
• Performs all other duties as assigned or required.
• Communicates effectively and in a timely manner with all stakeholders, through oral, written, and electronic means.
• Attends work regularly.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

This work regularly requires sitting, standing, walking, speaking, hearing, occasional pushing, pulling, lifting; work has standard vision requirements; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work may require preparing and analyzing written or computer data, and observing general surroundings and activities; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. school cafeteria/playground/passageways).

REPORTS TO: Primarily to the lead custodian with ongoing communication with the principal, Head Custodian, and the Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds.