Job Title:

Custodian

Contract Days:

180

Wage Category

Non-Exempt

Reports to:

Principal, Assistant, and/or Building Manager

Function:

To provide students with a safe, attractive, comfortable, and clean place in which to learn, play, and develop.

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma
• Must be in sufficiently good enough physical condition to perform physical duties such as sweeping, mopping, cleaning etc.
• Ability to operate cleaning equipment.
• Ability to work cooperatively with faculty and staff.
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Sweeps and vacuums floors daily.
• Buffs, strip and wax floors when necessary
• Mops all classrooms and hallways when needed.
• Dusts furniture daily.
• Cleans corridors after school each day.
• Cleans janitorial closets properly on a daily basis and stocks restrooms appropriately.
• Mops bathroom floors, and cleans all sanitary fixtures and drinking fountains daily.
• Scrubs, hoses down, and spray foam disinfects bathrooms at least 2 times per week.
• Washes all windows on both the inside and outside at least twice each year, and more frequently if necessary.
• Keeps wastebaskets empty and clean.
• Reports to supervisor any acts of vandalism, any evidence of deliberate littering, and any behavior that is demeaning to the custodian/maid.
• Supervisor may assign other duties as needed.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly to walk, sit, stand, and reach with hands and arms, stoop or kneel, and crouch. Duties may involve risk resulting from attending to students behavioral needs.

Additional physical requirements include the following:

• 
  Physically capable of lifting or moving up to 40 pounds.
• Sufficiently mobile to ensure the safety of students.
• Specific vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to focus.
• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time.
• Manuel dexterity for the purpose of using a telephone and data entry.
• Read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids.
• Hear and understand speech at normal levels and on the telephone.
• Speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in person and on the telephone.

Pay Scale

Custodian