Custodian Job San Bernardino area,California USA,Maintenance/Cleaning

Class specifications are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed by employees in the class. Specifications are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job; however, any additional duties will be reasonably related to this class.

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION

Maintains buildings, furniture, and equipment in a clean, sanitary, and safe, condition sets up for meetings and special events.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED

Receives general direction from appropriate supervisor; checks with supervisor regarding non-routine assignments. May provide technical and functional direction to assigned student workers.

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES

The following duties are typical for this classification.

Maintains buildings and furniture in a clean, sanitary, safe, and secure condition during an assigned shift; cleans and performs minor maintenance repairs on assigned equipment.

Sweeps, scrubs, and mops rooms, halls, stairway, and offices; strips, sands, refinishes, waxes, or buffs floors; vacuums and shampoos rugs and carpets; operates custodial equipment, including buffers, floor scrubbers, carpet extractors, and vacuum cleaners.

Empties, cleans, moves, and sanitizes waste receptacles and ashtrays; picks up papers and other debris; empties pencil sharpeners as necessary.

Dusts, cleans, and polishes furniture, woodwork, fixtures and equipment; removes cobwebs; cleans desks and countertops

May change light bulbs and fluorescent tubes.

Cleans whiteboards, trays, and erasers; arranges classroom furniture and equipment; restocks classrooms with necessary supplies.

Cleans and disinfects restrooms, floor mats, doors, drinking fountains and fixtures; restocks and may order supplies as needed; ensures specified sanitary standards are maintained; may perform minor pest control tasks in buildings.

Washes walls; removes markings on walls, restroom stalls, countertops, and desks; washes windows, mirrors, and blinds; cleans filters and kitchen hoods.

Moves furniture, equipment, or other heavy objects on request or for set-up of campus functions, meetings, and special events utilizing pallet jacks, hand trucks, or similar equipment; makes minor repairs and adjustments to building fixtures and equipment.

Perform the opening and closing of campus by unlocking and locking building entry points; external restroom doors and turn-on elevators; raises, lowers, and replaces flags.

Secures internal and external entry and exit doors at the close of the workday or after evening classes, ensuring that windows and lights are locked and off in assigned area; maintain the security of assigned areas; turn the alarm system on and off.

Reports fire, sanitary, safety, or security hazards in buildings; reports needed maintenance or repair to the appropriate authority.

Operates campus vehicles as required.

Performs other duties related to the primary job duties.

The following generally describes the knowledge and ability required to enter the job and/or be learned within a short period of time in order to successfully perform the assigned duties.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Environmental Exposure Tolerance

Performing under physically demanding conditions
Accepts and endures the necessity of working in unpleasant or physically demanding conditions
Shows established adaptation and performance under unpleasant or physically demanding conditions

Safety Focus

Showing vigilance and care in identifying and addressing health risks and safety hazards
Maintains high level of conscientious safety practice

General Physical Ability

Using strength, endurance, flexibility, balance and coordination
Applying motor and perceptual abilities requiring no specific technique, training or conditioning

Professional and Technical Expertise

Applying technical subject matter to the job **
Knows the rudimentary concepts of performing the essential technical operations

Adaptability

Responding positively to change and modifying behavior as the situation requires**
Accept and adjust to changes and the unfamiliar

Innovation

Imagining and devising new and better ways of doing things**
Fix what is broken; find solutions and fixes with resources at hand
Finds new approaches to performing familiar tasks
Create and invent new ideas; envision the unexpected, unexplored, untried**

Critical Thinking

Analytically and logically evaluates information to resolve problems
Follow guide, SOP or other step by step procedures for locating the source of a problem and fixing it
May detect ambiguous, incomplete, or conflicting information or instructions**

Informing

Proactively obtaining and sharing information

Mechanical Insight

Chooses the right tool for the job
Applies principles of mechanical advantage to get the work done
Follows step-by-step assembly procedures, troubleshooting guides, and simple diagrams

Customer Focus

Attending to the needs and expectations of customer
Seeks information about the immediate and longer term needs of the customer
Anticipates what the customer may want or expect in a product or service
Works across…