Custodial Technician

Custodial Technician

Hiring Range: $26.48 - $29.61, with growth to $33.10

The City of Sumner is recruiting a dependable and detail-oriented Custodial Technician to join the Facilities team. We're looking for someone who takes pride in their work and understands that clean, safe, and well-maintained facilities are essential to creating welcoming spaces for employees, residents, and visitors. To you, custodial work is about more than sweeping floors and emptying trash; it's about paying attention to the details, maintaining high standards, and helping ensure City buildings are safe, sanitary, and ready to serve the community every day.

If you're someone who takes satisfaction in a job well done and wants to play an important behind-the-scenes role in keeping City facilities clean, safe, and welcoming, we'd love to meet you.

This position is a full-time, Fair Labor Standards Act non-exempt position. This is designated as a Safety Sensitive position. The typical work schedule is Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Alternative work schedules, including evenings and weekends, may be required based on operational needs. Remote work is not available for this position. Attendance at evening meetings or other off-duty events is not typically required but may occur occasionally based on operational needs.

The incumbent in this position is not a Civil Service employee.

Under the direction of the Facilities Field Supervisor, the Custodial Technician performs a variety of custodial and light maintenance duties to ensure City buildings and facilities are clean, safe, sanitary and well maintained. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to mopping, sweeping, vacuuming, washing windows, collecting trash, and cleaning building surfaces and restrooms. While actual duties of the Custodian will vary from time to time, Custodians may be assigned to perform work in any or all facilities.

Custodial work is performed independently in accordance with established procedures and standards. Assignments and priorities are typically communicated by the supervisor verbally, with written instructions provided as needed. Employees are expected to exercise sound judgment in completing assigned work while referring unusual situations to the supervisor.

The City of Sumner's vision is to set the standard of excellence for a progressive small city. In working to achieve that vision, Sumner prioritizes and celebrates diverse perspectives, life experiences and differences. The City actively seeks and encourages people with diverse backgrounds and characteristics to apply and all come together with a goal of continuing to learn and improve to better serve the residents, businesses and visitors of our community.

Sumner remains a traditional city of just over 11,000 residents with agricultural roots, known for decades as the Rhubarb Pie Capital of the World. At the same time, its compact, walkable layout aligns perfectly with progressive planning trends, as its classic Main Street becomes repurposed for boutiques, independent restaurants and daily services such as legal offices, financial advisors and doctors.

While Sumner retains historic neighborhoods of Craftsman houses and an active high school right on Main Street, it also offers over 16,000 manufacturing and distribution jobs for companies such as REI, Keurig Dr. Pepper, , and Dillanos Coffee Roasters. With a downtown Sound Transit station with buses and trains, it is well connected to the Puget Sound region while striving to be a full-service city with the largest YMCA facility in the state of Washington as well as a link trail system that will connect the Foothills and Interurban trails.

The Public Operations Department is responsible for the management, maintenance and operations, for the City of Sumner's Facilities, Streets & Signals, Cemetery, Parks, Fleet and Water Quality, Water Distribution, Sewer Collections and Stormwater sections. Through the hard work and efforts of over 40 FTE's, we oversee; 120 lane-miles of roadways and adjoining sidewalks, hundreds of miles of wet utilities, well and spring water sources, over 50 stormwater outfalls, 16 lift stations,…