Plant Custodian; Evening Shift

Description

FTE Status: Full-Time – 40 Hours
Shift: Evening Shift
Benefits: Benefit Eligible

Four day work week - Monday thru Thursday

Paid Time Off

Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance

401(k) with company match up to 5%
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Reports To: Operations / Facilities Leadership

At Applied Aerospace & Defense, cleanliness is more than appearance—it is part of how we protect our products, our people, and our customers.

The Custodian is responsible for maintaining a clean, safe, organized, and production-ready manufacturing environment. This position performs detailed cleaning throughout the facility, with particular emphasis on production areas, equipment, machinery surfaces, workstations, floors, and other areas where dust, debris, fibers, chips, residue, or foreign material could create contamination or Foreign Object Debris (FOD) risks.

This is a hands-on role for someone who takes genuine pride in cleanliness, notices the details others may overlook, and enjoys leaving an area better than they found it.

The Custodian works primarily during the evening shift, allowing for detailed cleaning of manufacturing areas and equipment while minimizing disruption to production.

Success in this position is easy to recognize:
our facility is cleaner, safer, and more production-ready because you were here.

Precision means understanding that in aerospace manufacturing, the small things matter.

• Perform detailed cleaning throughout production, manufacturing, warehouse, and facility areas.
• Clean accessible surfaces of production equipment, machinery, workstations, benches, carts, racks, shelving, tables, fixtures, and other manufacturing surfaces.
• Remove dust, dirt, fibers, chips, residue, packaging material, and other debris that could become a source of contamination or FOD.
• Sweep, vacuum, mop, and scrub production floors and other assigned areas.
• Use industrial vacuums, floor scrubbers, and other cleaning equipment as appropriate.
• Clean around, underneath, and behind equipment where safely accessible and authorized.
• Clean machine and equipment exterior surfaces using approved methods and cleaning products.
• Empty production waste and trash containers and move waste to designated disposal locations.
• Clean aisles, walkways, material-staging areas, and production support spaces.
• Clean doors, walls, windows, ledges, horizontal surfaces, and other areas where dust and debris can accumulate.
• Respond promptly to spills and other cleaning needs while following applicable safety and environmental procedures.
• Maintain custodial tools, equipment, and supplies in clean and serviceable condition.
• Follow established requirements for cleaning around sensitive equipment, tooling, materials, work-in-process, and finished product.
• Use only approved cleaning chemicals and follow applicable SDS, labeling, and storage requirements.
• Maintain required separation of cleaning tools or materials when necessary to prevent cross-contamination.

Pride means seeing something that needs attention and taking responsibility for it.

We are looking for someone who enjoys cleaning and takes satisfaction in doing it exceptionally well.

• Take personal ownership of the cleanliness and appearance of assigned areas.
• Perform work thoroughly rather than simply completing a checklist.
• Look for dust, debris, contamination, and FOD sources that may not be immediately obvious.
• Regularly inspect production areas and identify locations requiring additional attention.
• Take pride in clean floors, equipment, work spaces, corners, surfaces, and manufacturing areas.
• Leave production areas clean,…