Aircraft Cleaner

Join our team at Worldwide Flight Services as a Aircraft Cleaner at Newark Liberty international Airport

Starting Pay: $18 $4.60 ($22.60/h)

• WFS EWR hourly workers receive an additional $4.60/h per Healthy Terminals Act of New Jersey (S989) with base rate of $17/h, which makes starting rate of $21.60/h.

Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

• Performing aircraft interior cleaning, including equipping the aircraft cabin for flight according to specifications, with equipment and cabin services supplies
• Cleaning interior of aircraft by hand or powered equipment using cleaners
• Stocking and cleaning of vehicles used in the cleaning function
• Stocking and cleaning of the cabin service make-up rooms area
• Stocking and maintaining cabin service kits
• Disposing of trash, rubbish and waste that is incidental and related to the applicable job functions.
• Uses cleaning fluids and materials, such as washing solutions, scrapers, squeegees, wringer pails and vacuum cleaners.
• Equip airplane cabin, by reading check list specifications, with equipment and supplies such as rugs, linens, blankets, etc., as well as carrying supplies weighing up to 50 lbs. on aircraft.
• Lifts refuse containers weighing up to 50 lbs.; reach, bend, and twist in confined space to hand clean, using cleaning fluid and materials, the interior of aircraft including meal trays, ash trays, lavatories, overhead storage bins and buffets.
• Complete forms connected with work assignments according to established procedures.
• Complete additional jobs as directed by management, according to Company policy and /or regulations.

Required Skills:

• Ability to work rotating shifts including weekends (i.e. Friday, Saturday and Sunday), holidays, and days off.
• Must be able to perform the following functions in variable weather conditions as well as environmental conditions, i.e. Jet engine fumes, vehicle emissions, dust, and jet engine noise.
• Understand that the work schedule is based on flight departure and arrival times.
• Ability to judge distances.
• Cognitive skills to check deliveries of supplies against requisitions to determine discrepancies.
• Cognitive skills to check condition, clean, sort, count, salvage and/or store equipment, and assemble kits.
• Operate vacuum cleaner and similar mechanized cleaning aids.

Required Experience:

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand the English language
• High school diploma or GED preferred.