Custodial Trainer, 2024 - 2025

Position Title: Custodial Trainer

Payroll/Personnel Type: 12 Month (Non-Exempt)

Job #: 8893

Reports to: Facility Manager

Shift Length: 8 Hour Day

Union Eligibility: Not Eligible

Starting Salary: $60,000

Position Summary:

Under the direction of the Facility Manager or his/her designee, the Custodial Trainer provides support, guidance, and training to the district's custodians. The primary function will focus on developing and implementing training programs for District-wide cleaning operations based on current industry cleaning standards. Maintain and update a proactive training program that will include all areas of custodial responsibility, including but not limited to cleaning, maintenance, communication, customer service, and safety. Assist the facilities manager, and zone manager with recruiting, hiring, and scheduling substitute custodians.

Essential Functions:

• Plan, train, instruct, assign, inspect, supervise, and prepare daily written work schedules for a staff of subordinate custodial personnel
• Instruct and monitor trainees in cleaning, plunging toilets, sweeping, mopping, and scrubbing floors, stairways, and hallways; dust, clean, and polish furniture, equipment, fixtures, windowsills, railing, chalk rails, and blackboard and dispose of trash
• Instruct and monitor trainees in moving and arranging furniture and replacing fluorescent light bulbs based on requirements or needs as identified
• Instruct and monitor trainees in the removal of snow from walkways, sidewalks, steps, and entrances; dispose of trash around the school and other buildings
• Open and close the building by checking all doors, windows, and offices for security purposes
• Operate and maintain equipment such as scrubbing machine, wet/dry vacuum, and snow blower
• Inspect building and grounds for vandalism, fire and safety hazards, and unsanitary conditions; submit repair requests
• Instruct and monitor trainees in cleaning windows inside and outside of the building using a high stepladder and safety equipment, as required by regulations
• Requisition custodial supplies, prepare regular reports, and maintain personnel time records, for trainees as needed
• Performs other duties or special projects as assigned

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to utilize the methods, materials, and equipment ordinarily used in cleaning public buildings
• Ability to implement and apply necessary safety precautions involved in custodial work
• Ability to understand safety issues related to the use of chemicals & understand the use of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
• Ability to plan, train, assign and supervise staff of subordinate custodial personnel
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other custodial employees, faculty, students, and the general public
• Ability to maintain routine records and prepare reports

Experience:

• Requires a minimum of three years experience in custodial/housekeeping or an equivalent combination of training and experience with the St. Louis Public Schools
• Must have received an excellent evaluation for the past two years in both performance and attendance
• Outside applicants must possess a total of three years experience as a Lead custodian or five years experience in a custodial position with the knowledge of cleaning procedures and equipment operations

Education:

• High school education or equivalent
• OSHA 10, MSD (material data) training, CPR training, and fire extinguisher training. If not; must be willing to complete the required training within the first ninety working days of holding the position

Physical Requirements:

• Must be physically able to operate a motor vehicle
• Must be able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, and pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body
• Light work usually requires walking or standing to a significant degree

Working Conditions and Environment:

• Work is routinely performed in a typical interior/office environment
• Subject to both, inside and outside conditions