Internal Lead Custodian

Position Overview

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The Lead Custodian position is responsible for maintaining cleanliness and sanitation across bath facilities, common areas, entrances, and ensuring a safe and welcoming environment. In addition to performing custodial duties, the Lead Custodian provides direction and training to custodial staff, reinforcing workflow and quality standards. They lead project and floor care teams, assist with training, and support staff with computer-based tasks.

The position also includes managing supplies and equipment, maintaining inventory, and ensuring proper storage and maintenance. Custodial Services within KU Operations plays a vital role in ensuring facilities are clean, safe, and healthy environments. KU Operations supports KU’s mission of learning, scholarship, and creative endeavor by providing the visible and behind-the-scenes services that make possible the university’s academic and research missions.

KU offers great benefits to employees including up to 176 hours of paid vacation per year, 96 hours of sick leave earned per year, nine paid holidays plus one discretionary day, a retirement program, medical and dental insurance, life and disability insurance, and other benefit plan options. State of Kansas discounts are offered by various vendors. Educational and professional development opportunities are also available.

Tuition assistance offers up to 12 credit hours per year for employees and Employee Dependent Tuition Assistance Scholarship (EDTAS) award opportunities. Details are available at (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).-assistance

70% - Custodial Duties:

• Bath Facilities:
  Office, Classroom and Facilities Maintenance: Vacuums, bonnets and extracts carpeted areas using appropriate equipment and chemicals. Dust mops, clean tile floors, wet mops stains and spots on tiled floors using hand method and semi-automatic scrubbers. Empties trash, using special care in research and lab areas, cleans containers and replaces liners. Dusts furniture, blinds and other surfaces. Cleans glass, ledges, chalk and dry marker boards.
  
  Some work locations require attention to bio-hazards.
• Hallways, Stairways, Elevators, Entrances and Exteriors: On resilient surfaces, dust mops, scrubs and burnishes with a variety of specialized equipment. Wet mops spots and stains on tiled areas and floor mats. Spot cleans walls, doors, carpets, jambs, and kick plates. Washes windows and rails. Dusts and polishes surfaces. Cleans fire extinguisher cases and reports damaged and/or missing equipment to the supervisor. Cleans display cases, drinking fountains, furniture, etc.
  
  Cleans exterior entrances daily, removing snow and ice when necessary. Checks and maintains exterior areas, handicap access ramps and equipment, elevator cabs and doors, etc.
• Floor Maintenance: Strips floors, chemical detergent scrubs in non-carpeted areas. Burnishes tile floors, bonnets and deep extracts carpeted areas, cleans and maintains specialty floors such as wood, cork, quarry tile using a variety of automatic equipment. Follows associated safety procedures in order to avoid injury to self, others, and equipment damage.

15% - Lead Custodian: The Lead Custodian provides direction to other employees while performing the same general type and kind of duties. Responsibilities for this position include training and supporting group/team members and helping ensure that all established quality standards are met. The Lead Custodian reinforces workflow for the staff and actively participates in the completion of scheduled tasks.

• Lead and work directly with custodial staff assigned to clean & sanitize facilities in an assigned area.
• Lead custodial project and floor care teams.
• Instruct and/or train workers as necessary in the use of materials, equipment, methods, procedures, and safety regulations.
• Assist supervisors conduct yearly targeted training workshops.
• Assist employees with computer tasks.
• Participate in training sessions and in‑service classes or workshops.
• Serve as part of the emergency phone rotation, responding to urgent calls outside of normal business hours…