Custodian - Berkeley City College

Position Information

Job Title:

Custodian - Berkeley City College

Time Base: 40 hrs/week 12 months/year

Compensation:
Salary Range: $3,562.62 - $4,543.39/mo, Hiring Range: $3,562.62 - $3,919.73/mo - The maximum initial placement is Step 3 depending on experience.

Position Type:
Classified

Department:
Business Office (831)

Location:

City:
State: CA

Work Schedule:
Monday – Friday
Current hours: 4:30pm to 1:00am
Future hours: 9:00pm – 5:30am

Under general supervision, the Custodian performs a wide variety of custodial duties for cleaning assigned areas, rooms, buildings, or office space.

• Cleans, sweeps, scrubs, strips, mops and waxes floors.
• Vacuum, shampoo and extract dirt from rugs and carpets.
• Cleans rest rooms, offices, shops, classrooms, kitchens, labs, theater, locker rooms and gym areas.
• Washes walls and removes graffiti.
• Cleans windows and drinking fountains.
• Empties and cleans waste containers.
• Cleans chalkboards, white boards and erasers.
• Replaces lights and cleans diffusers.
• Empties garbage and trash cans.
• Secures buildings having an alarm system.
• Reports needed repairs, hazardous materials or safety violations to supervisors.
• Assists in moving supplies and arranging furniture and equipment.
• Sets up facilities for special events.
• May assist in ordering, receiving, storing and inventorying of working supplies from college stores.
• May make minor non-technical repairs.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Knowledge of methods of cleaning and preserving floors, walls, furniture, and fixtures.
• Knowledge of cleaning materials, disinfectants, hazardous materials, and equipment used in custodial work.
• Knowledge of common tools and their uses.
• Ability to use cleaning materials and equipment safely and with skill and efficiency.
• Ability to understand and carry out oral and written instructions.
• Ability to move supplies and furniture and set up rooms and buildings for special occasions.
• Ability to use common electrical cleaning equipment.

Work performed indoors and outdoors often in uncontrolled areas. Noise and vibrations are experienced in the operation of cleaning and maintenance equipment. Frequent exposure to bleach and other chemical and cleaning agents.

• Frequent lifting up to 75 lbs.
• Frequent carrying up to 75 lbs.
• Frequent pushing up to 100 lbs.
• Frequent stooping, squatting and body twisting.
• Constant standing and walking.
• Reaching at high and low levels.

Must be able to communicate in English (speaking, reading and writing) at a level to safely and effectively perform the essential functions of the Custodian position.

• Ladders that meet safety regulations, brooms, squeegees, brushes, mops, vacuum cleaners, high and low speed floor machines, yard blowers, pressure washers and yard vacuums; operates gas tractor or electrical vehicles.

Open Date: 07/12/2023

APPLICATION PROCEDURES

1. Required documents will include:

• Current resume of experience, formal education/training and qualifications.
• Copies of supporting credentials, if applicable.
• Copies of transcripts from fully accredited colleges or university institutions.

(Copies of diplomas will not substitute for transcripts.) (If hired, it will be required to submit official transcripts from fully accredited college or university.)

Information on transcripts must include degree awarded and confer date. Transcripts without this information and online applications without transcripts will be disqualified. PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT AN APPLICATION IF YOUR DEGREE WILL NOT BE CONFERRED UNTIL A LATER DATE.

Note:

A written evaluation by an official…