Janitor, Maintenance​/Cleaning, Maintenance Worker

Janitor

Performs a full range of cleaning tasks involved in the maintenance of a designated area utilizing heavy industrial type equipment. Duties and responsibilities include maintaining a specific area orderly and clean, scrubbing, stripping, waxing, and polishing floors using heavy industrial type vacuum cleaner, adjusting, cleaning, and oiling machines, changing brushes, rollers, buffers, and other attachments, sweeping floors, hallways, emptying garbage, dusting office furniture, emptying ash trays, shampooing rugs, cleaning air vents, disinfecting and deodorizing toilet bowls, lavatories, washing and replacing venetian blinds, washing ceiling fixtures, changing light bulbs and room partitions using ladders and scaffolds, cleaning and maintaining machines and equipment, making adjustments accordingly, reporting all equipment malfunctions to supervisor and performing minor repairs to equipment, removing stains from a variety of surfaces such as rugs, drapes, walls, floors, and fixtures by use of chemicals and cleaning solutions, moving heavy furniture supplies and equipment, cleaning windows and doors inside and out at ground levels, and performing other related duties as assigned.

Physical demands include moderately heavy physical effort occasionally in moving, setting up, and working from ladders and scaffolds. Frequently lifts and moves objects weighing about 40 pounds and occasionally objects weighing over 50 pounds are lifted and moved. Working conditions are indoors in areas which normally have adequate heat, light, and ventilation. Occasionally exposed to skin irritations from strong cleaning solutions.

Possibility exists of serious disabling injury as a result of electrical shocks from power cleaning equipment or from falling scaffolds or ladders.