Custodial Worker

Custodial Worker 1

The Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA) is seeking a Custodial Worker 1 who is ready to support the Gino J. Merli Veterans' Center with steady, positive, and enthusiastic service. This position gives you the opportunity to help keep resident areas, public spaces, and work areas clean and welcoming. Your commitment to detail will help create an environment where veterans, their spouses, and staff can feel comfortable and supported every day.

Join our team and take pride in work that makes a meaningful difference.

This position supports the overall cleanliness and safety of the Gino Merli Veterans Center by performing a wide range of custodial tasks throughout the facility. As a Custodial Worker 1, you will perform the following duties:

• Deep Cleaning: Perform thorough cleaning of resident rooms, common areas, offices, medical spaces, kitchen areas, vehicles, and public areas
• General Cleaning: Carry out tasks such as mopping, scrubbing, waxing, polishing, dusting, sweeping, and buffing of surfaces and fixtures
• Restroom Care: Clean and sanitize all restrooms and restock needed supplies
• Waste Handling: Empty waste containers, dispose of trash and recyclable materials, and collect infectious waste for proper storage
• Room Preparation: Clean, sanitize, rearrange, and organize resident rooms prior to occupation and move furniture and equipment as needed
• Safety and Support: Maintain a safe work environment, report hazards, assist with snow removal, and help train new employees

Interested in learning more? Additional details regarding this position can be found in the position description.

Work Schedule and Additional Information:

• Full-time employment, 37.5 hours per week
• Work hours are 1st shift (6:45 AM to 2:45 PM), with a 30-minute lunch. You will work alternating weekends.
• Telework: You will not have the option to telework in this position.
• Salary: In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
• You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.

Qualifications

Additional Requirements:

• You must be able to perform essential job functions.

Preferred Qualifications (not required):

• Willingness to work in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
• Willingness to work a full-time schedule
• Willingness to work 6:45AM - 2:45PM
• Work experience as a custodian, janitor, or cleaning person (Experience might include such things as cleaning restrooms; cleaning resident rooms, offices, or public areas; mopping, scrubbing, dusting, sweeping, and buffing)
• Work experience in an assisted living facility, nursing home, or hospital
• Work experience interacting with patients or residents while cleaning in patient or resident rooms or a dining room setting
• Work experience cleaning bodily fluids and disposing infectious waste into proper storage areas
• Work experience removing snow, trash, and debris from sidewalks and entrance ways
• Work experience using and mixing chemicals or solvents
• Work experience using manual or power equipment to mop, scrub, sweep, strip, wax, and buff floors
• Custodial work experience in one of the following environments: activity or recreation room, bathroom, shower or bathing room, cafeteria or dining room, entrance way, lobby, common space, nursing station, patient or resident rooms, pharmacy, physical therapy rooms

Legal Requirements:

• A conditional offer of employment will require a medical examination.
• This position falls under the provisions of the Older Adult Protective Services Act. Under the Act, a conditional offer of employment will require submission and approval of satisfactory criminal history reports, including but not limited to, PA State Police and FBI clearance.

In accordance with the seniority provisions of the applicable collective bargaining agreement, this position was previously posted for seniority candidates. Since there were no seniority candidates, it is now open to all applicants.

How to Apply:

• Resumes, cover letters, and similar documents will not be reviewed, and the information contained therein will not be considered for the purposes of determining your eligibility for the position. Information to support your eligibility for the position must be provided on the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education).
• Your application must be submitted by the posting closing date. Late applications and other required materials will not be accepted.
• Failure to comply with the above application…