Custodian (12 month, part time) #24357RP

Custodian (12 month, part time) Job Description at Michigan Technological University

This part-time custodian position is responsible for performing routine and special custodial duties in facilities and grounds as assigned. The work is performed in accordance with instructions and schedules provided, with results regularly inspected.

The successful candidate will provide excellent customer service to a wide variety of internal and external customers.

Responsibilities:

• Sweep, mop, clean, vacuum, wax and buff various types of floor surfaces.
• Clean and maintain all meeting and conference rooms, hallways, lobbies, lounges, rest rooms, offices, labs, stairwells and other public and work areas.
• Clean washroom floors, walls and fixtures sanitize as necessary. Replenish washroom soap, paper, and vending products.
• Maintain a clean, sanitary, and safe work area and ensure a safe environment throughout the facility. Remove garbage, paper and recycling.
• Clean all types of wall and ceiling surfaces.
• Use and maintain a variety of cleaning and maintenance machines, ladders, tools and equipment.
• Wash windows, clean furniture, dust windowsills and ledges and clean fixtures, change light bulbs in various fixtures inside and out of building.
• Maintain building entrances according to conditions by removing snow and ice, applying sand and salt, and removing debris.
• Adhere to current uniform policy.
• Be responsible for minor wall and ceiling repair including spackling, sanding and painting.
• Participate in any training necessary to accommodate changes in operation which directly affects regular assigned duties.
• Commit to learning about continuous improvement strategies and applying them to everyday work. Actively engage in University continuous improvement initiatives.
• Apply safety-related knowledge, skills, and practices to everyday work.
• SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: Functional supervision may be exercised over seasonal/temporary university employees and student assistants.

Requirements:

• High school diploma, or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and abilities can be acquired.
• One year experience with primary duties as a custodian, or an equivalent combination of experience to equal one year full time.
• One year experience maintaining a variety of floor surfaces using auto-scrubbers, burnishers, buffers, carpet extraction vacuums, and other commercial cleaning equipment.

Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities:

• Excellent communication, customer service and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to use basic internet and web-based applications.
• Demonstrated ability to follow instructions and perform work with minimum supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to work harmoniously with clients, students and staff in varying situations and in all areas when assigned.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain a clean and safe facility.
• Demonstrated ability to perform general maintenance tasks, including changing lights, bulbs. The use of ladders will be required to perform some of these tasks.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively across cultural boundaries and work harmoniously with diverse groups of students, faculty, and staff.
• Demonstrated commitment to contribute to a safe work environment.

Desirable Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities:

• Demonstrated success in working with persons with a wide variety of personal characteristics and viewpoints.

Work Environment and/or Physical Demands:

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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk; talk or hear; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, climb extension ladders, and step ladders.

The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance, peripheral and color vision; depth perception; and the ability to adjust focus.