Custodial Lead (Full-Time)

Job Description

The Portland Art Museum (referred to as Museum) and PAM CUT // Center for an Untold Tomorrow invites applications for the position of Custodial Lead. The Custodial Lead is responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the custodial team to ensure a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for staff, visitors, and guests. This position provides guidance and training to custodial staff, coordinates schedules, monitors work performance, and ensures adherence to established cleaning standards and safety protocols.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Coordinate the daily activities of custodial staff, ensuring efficient workflow and task completion
• Develop and maintain cleaning schedules to meet organizational needs, including event-specific requirements
• Inspect work areas regularly to ensure cleanliness and compliance with safety and quality standards
• Provide hands-on assistance with custodial tasks, including but not limited to floor care, waste removal, restroom maintenance, and other general cleaning duties
• Conduct training sessions for new hires and ongoing professional development for staff, emphasizing safety and effective cleaning techniques
• Monitor inventory levels of cleaning supplies and equipment; coordinate reorders to ensure uninterrupted operations
• Ensure compliance with OSHA standards and other regulatory guidelines
• Act as a point of contact for emergencies, coordinating with relevant departments to address immediate needs

Secondary or Additional Responsibilities

• Helps maintain MaintenX online portal to track custodial tasks
• Serves on PAM committees as assigned
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate custodial staff to ensure a safe and clean environment

Institutional Responsibilities

• Support the Museum’s mission, vision and core values of creativity, connection, equity, learning, accessibility and accountability.
• Contribute to and support the PAM strategic plan, annual priorities, and institutional initiatives such as diversity, equity, inclusion and access.
• Contribute to a positive organizational culture based on mutual respect, a spirit of collegiality, cooperation, and openness to many perspectives.
• Participate in a culture of ongoing learning, collaboration, innovation, creativity, and community engagement.
• Promote equity and inclusion goals and have a “people first” mindset.

Required Knowledge & Skills

If you have any questions along the way including wanting to talk about a non traditional career background, please reach out to HR.

• Strong leadership and organizational skills with the ability to manage a diverse team
• Proficiency in the use of cleaning tools, equipment, and chemicals
• Familiarity with OSHA standards and workplace safety protocols
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Excellent prioritization skills, meeting deadlines, and maintaining a high level of detail

Education, Formal & Informal Experience, Training Required, Certification, Etc.

• Minimum 2 years of experience in custodial work

Job Conditions

• Non-Exempt
• Schedule/Hours: 8:30am -5pm, Days of the week are flexible, but availability for at least one weekend shift per week is required (40 hours per week)
• Onsite/Not Remote
• Occasional overtime and evening hours
• On-call status
• Extensive computer work
• Work with chemicals

Physical Activities

• Frequently climb stairs
• Occasionally work in high noise areas (hearing protection required)
• Occasional outdoor work, in varying temperature and humidity environments
• Frequently standing, walking, bending, kneeling, grasping and use of fingers
• Frequent repetitive motions of hands/wrist
• Frequent verbal communication with other staff members
• Occasionally push/pull/lift/carry up to 50lbs
• This is not a complete representation of all physical requirements

Benefits

• This role is non-exempt/hourly and full-time
• Budgeted compensation is within pay grade E ($20.08 min - $23.10 mid - $26.11 max), depending on experience
• Healthcare package: medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401K match, and flexible spending accounts
• Paid time off: 6 paid holidays, 2 floating holidays, vacation, sick, and bereavement leave
• Monthly Museum contribution for public transit, parking, or bike to work plan
• Museum admission & lectures, programs, and gift shop discounts
• R.E.A.P (Reciprocal Employee Attraction Pass), providing free general admission to local destinations

Application Process for Custodial Lead

In order to be considered eligible, submissions require a resume, cover letter, four references, and all application questions answered. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Application materials will be screened and interview candidates will be selected and notified by email. All applicants will be notified once the position is filled.

Closing date: Open Until Filled

Company Description

Equal Opportunity & Accessibility

The Museum is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, both in our hiring practices and in our Museum employee experiences. We strive to foster a mindful and respectful environment in which everyone can be their authentic selves at work and experience a culture free of harassment, racism, and discrimination.

The Museum is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including age, sex, color, race, creed, national origin, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, political belief, disability or any other legally protected status. We are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. This commitment ensures that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the application, interview, and hiring process. Alternative formats of this application are available upon request. If reasonable accommodation or an alternative form of this application is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and/or receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Human Resources at hr@pam.org or 503.276.4358.

About the Portland Art Museum and PAM CUT // Center for an Untold Tomorrow

The seventh oldest museum in the United States, the Portland Art Museum is internationally recognized for its permanent collection and ambitious special exhibitions drawn from the Museum’s holdings and the world’s finest public and private collections. The Museum’s collection of more than 50,000 objects, displayed in 112,000 square feet of galleries, reflects the history of art from ancient times to today. The collection is distinguished for its holdings of arts of the native peoples of North America, English silver, and the graphic arts. An active collecting institution dedicated to preserving great art for the enrichment of future generations, the Museum devotes 90 percent of its galleries to its permanent collection.

The Museum’s campus of landmark buildings, a cornerstone of Portland’s cultural district, includes the Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, the Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, the Schnitzer Center for Northwest Art, PAM CUT, and the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Center for Native American Art. With a membership of more than 22,000 households and serving more than 350,000 visitors annually, the Museum is a premier venue for education in the visual arts. For information on exhibitions and programs visit portlandartmuseum.org.

PAM CUT celebrates cinematic storytelling from around the corner and across the globe, embracing artists who want to express themselves in a variety of ways and don’t fit into neat categorization or boxes.

The Portland, Oregon-based organization focuses on pioneering, multi-faceted artists changing for whom, by whom and how cinematic stories are told — and provides support directly to creatives through exhibitions, artist residency, career sustainability programs, ongoing education, and global recognition platforms including programming at its signature spaces at the Portland Art Museum, PAM CUT galleries, and the Tomorrow Theater.

PAM CUT also serves individuals and communities who want to share experiences through our participatory, ever-evolving, and unbound programming. Audiences attending PAM CUT programs experience and create cinematic storytelling in many forms including: Film, Series, Audio, Gaming, Animation, Immersive and XR, and more! Learn more at pamcut.org.