Custodial Manager

Position Title: Custodial Manager

Date Modified: November 2024

FLSA Classification: Nonexempt

Reports To: Director of Facilities 

Position Purpose: Manages custodial staff, with solo responsibility for individual custodial area(s). Position involves day and evening work, including occasional weekends.

About Girls Preparatory School

The mission of Girls Preparatory School (GPS) is to inspire each girl to lead a life of integrity and purpose by engaging her mind, cultivating her strengths, and nurturing her self-confidence and respect for others. Currently, approximately 130 faculty and staff serve approximately 500 girls in grades 6-12 with a college preparatory curriculum that includes a full complement of courses in the humanities, STEM, the arts, and more, as well as a rich and varied cocurricular program. 

GPS prioritizes healthy connections and relationships, fostering a culture where each girl is known, heard, and empowered to use her voice. This culture of acceptance and belonging nurtures and lifts her up in mind, body, and spirit so that she can find her place and discover her potential with confidence and joy for dynamic engagement in a rapidly changing world. 

Faculty support each student in a learner-centered and collaborative culture that is aligned with our mission, vision, and values. Furthermore, faculty and staff are expected to understand and embody our tenets of excellence.

Essential Functions

• Plan, schedule, assign, and supervise the activities of custodial staff. 
• Manage inspection protocols and individual performance evaluations to maximize quality and efficiency of all team members.
• Instructs all employees in the proper methods and use of materials and equipment for safe and efficient work performance.
• Review team’s time cards and monitor absences, reassigning work as necessary.
• Supervises and performs regular maintenance of equipment; makes repairs within abilities.
• Request and purchase supplies as needed, within budget guidelines.
• Responds to and takes appropriate actions in the event of emergency or critical incidents to resolve, confine or prevent potentially injurious or hazardous conditions.
• Complete housekeeping duties in specified area(s) and as backup to absent colleagues.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
  
  

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED is preferred
• At least four years of experience in custodial services. Supervisory experience, including knowledge of cleaning procedures, equipment and supplies, is preferred.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding and to carry out instructions furnished in written or oral form.
• Knowledge of O.S.H.A. requirements and the ability to routinely follow those guidelines and requirements.
• Basic computer skills and the ability to use a work order system.

Physical Requirements and Work Environment

• Tasks involve the ability to exert heavy physical effort, including climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling, and lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of moderately heavy objects and materials weighing up to 100 pounds.
• Tasks are regularly performed with potential exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as strong odors, fumes, dusts, wetness, humidity, machinery, vibrations, temperature and noise extremes, disease, pathogenic substances and toxic/poisonous agents.

It is the School’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, or disability or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws. It is the intent and resolve of the School to comply with the letter and the spirit of the law in the implementation of all facets of equal opportunity. The School’s equal employment opportunity practices extend to recruitment, hiring, selection, compensation, benefits, transfer, promotion, training, discipline, and all other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment.

 All employees are responsible for complying with the School's equal employment opportunity policy.