Cleaning Person/ Yard Maintenance

Position Summary

Qualified individual will keep buildings in clean and orderly condition. Perform various cleaning duties and various routine maintenance activities.

Tasks

This list of duties and responsibilities is not all inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as management may deem necessary from time to time.

• Must be personally responsible and committed to the quality of one's own work.
• Clean building floors by sweeping, mopping, or scrubbing. Must be able to operate motor driving sweeper.
• Clean snow and ice from walkways and parking areas with snow shovels, snow blowers and trucks with plows.
• Gather and empty trash and dump 55-gallon barrels.
• Must be able to paint, install and remove racks, run hammer drill.
• Must be mechanically inclined.
• Must be able to use hand tools and power tools.
• Read work orders or receive oral instructions to determine work assignments and material and equipment needs
• Must be certified to operate the required powered industrial vehicle within the guidelines of the McLaughlin Body Powered Industrial Vehicle Program.
• Must be able to maintain good housekeeping practices in the work area and comply with all safety rules and procedures.
• Must wear and maintain the required protective clothing and equipment including safety glasses, steel toe safety shoes, and hearing protection.

Skills

• Equipment Selection - Determine the kind of tools and equipment needed to do the required job.
• Quality Control Analysis - Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.

Attributes

• Control Precision - The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
• Arm-Hand Steadiness - The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
• Finger Dexterity - The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
• Dynamic Flexibility - The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
• Manual Dexterity - The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
• Trunk Strength - The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing.
• Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Physical Requirements

• Must be capable of occasional horizontal lift up to 75 pounds.
• Must be capable of frequent horizontal lift up to 25 pounds.
• Must be capable of occasional floor to waist lift up to 50 pounds.
• Must be capable of occasional waist to crown lift up to 50 pounds.
• Must be able to stand for the duration of the shift. Work schedule may be over 8 hours a day.
• Must be capable of pushing/pulling up to 75 pounds.
• May be required to kneel, bend, crouch, forward bend stand in order to complete job assignment.
• Must be able to work overhead.
• Must be able to work during hot or cold temperatures. Summertime temperatures can reach or exceed 100 degrees.

Experience and Education

• High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate)