School Custodian II

About This Role

This posting is for various School Custodian II positions. The role involves maintaining the cleanliness and upkeep of school facilities and grounds, ensuring a safe and presentable environment for students and staff.

Responsibilities

• Sweep and mop floors, hallways, stairways, and classrooms
• Wipe, dust, and polish furniture and metal work
• Clean woodwork, walls, venetian blinds, electrical fixtures, windows, and other places that are not easily accessible
• Mop, clean, disinfect, and service lavatories and restrooms
• Clean water fountains and wash basins
• Water, rake, weed, and spread topsoil on lawns
• Mow areas not accessible to gang power mowers
• Pick up rubbish, leaves, and other refuse
• Assist in trimming and pruning hedges, trees, and shrubbery
• Assist in planting and fertilizing shrubbery, grass, and flowers
• Assist in propagating and transplanting young plants and shoots
• Move and transport heavy objects such as office and classroom furniture, benches, platforms, and refuse disposal barrels
• Load, unload, and distribute school and janitorial supplies and equipment
• Replace toilet floats, faucets, fluorescent and standard light bulbs, and fuses
• Make simple repairs to doors, windows, jalousies, stairways, venetian blinds, chairs, sprinkler systems, and other school facilities and equipment
• Operate heavy-duty industrial cleaning equipment such as vacuum cleaners, scrubbing machines, and floor polishers
• Remove spots and stains from carpets and may operate a shampoo machine to clean carpets
• May be in charge of janitorial supplies and equipment for the school and assist in taking inventories of such supplies and equipment

Requirements

• No experience is required; however, applicants may describe in their application any training and/or work experiences in one or a combination of the following areas:
• Janitorial or related custodial work such as sweeping, dusting, and cleaning of buildings
• Grounds maintenance work experience including such activities as cleaning, watering, fertilizing, trimming, mowing, sweeping, and raking
• General laboring experience such as moving materials, furniture, and equipment; loading and unloading trucks; carrying, unloading and stacking tools and supplies for skilled craftsman; and digging trenches and ditches
• Applicants must meet all the requirements for the position they are seeking as of the date of the application, unless otherwise specified
• Unless specifically indicated, the required education and experience may not be gained concurrently
• Calculation of experience is based on full-time, 40-hour workweeks