Night Custodian

Position: 12 Month Night Custodian

Custodian

Richland County School District One, South Carolina Classification Description Custodian FLSA:

Non-Exempt 240 days Salary Range: $25,911.71 - $38,352.05 Available

Shifts:

1:30pm - 9:30pm or 2:30pm - 10:30pm or 3pm - 11pm

General Statement of Job Under regular supervision, performs a variety of basic custodial and groundskeeping tasks in order to provide a clean and safe environment for students and school personnel. Reports to the Building Custodial Coordinator or Night Custodial Crew Leader.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Conducts a variety of basic custodial, maintenance and groundskeeping functions, following established regulations and standards for cleanliness and safety.
• Duties may include cleaning restrooms, hallways, classrooms, offices, cafeteria and other areas of the school building; removing trash; sanitizing and disinfecting surfaces; sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, shampooing and buffing floors and carpets; cleaning windows and walls; moving furniture; dusting; restocking soap and paper towel dispensers; removing trash from grounds; and miscellaneous landscaping duties as required.
• Sets up rooms, tables and chairs for special events.
• Operates a variety of equipment which may include a floor buffer, burnisher, auto scrubber, carpet cleaner, vacuum, sweeper, wet vac, hand and power tools, cleaning equipment and tools, lawn mower, weed eater, hedge trimmer, and leaf blower.
• Must attend training and professional development classes as required.
• May be required to perform custodial duties at other sites if needed.
• Must be able to fill-in as required during staff absences on all shifts.
• Exercises care and safety in the use of equipment and tools required to complete assigned tasks.
• Interacts and communicates with various groups and individuals, such as the immediate supervisor, co-workers, school staff, and students.
• Complies with all federal laws, state statutes, Board policies, administrative rules, and directives.

Additional Duties:

• Unlocks/secures building and rooms; may be required to respond to emergency calls or secure building.
• Conducts light maintenance duties, including changing light fixtures, moving furniture, and conducting minor repairs to equipment.
• Performs related duties as required.

Minimum Education and Training

Requires a minimum of six months experience in a cleaning or industrial environment.

Minimum Qualifications and Standards

Required

Physical Requirements:

• Must be physically able to operate a variety of machines and equipment, including a telephone, cleaning equipment, etc.
• Must be able to exert up to twenty pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
• Physical demands are in excess of those for sedentary work; must be able to remain on feet for periods of time, stoop, kneel, crouch, push, pull, climb, balance and perform manual tasks.
• Must be able to lift and/or carry weights of up to 100 pounds.

Data Conception:

• Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.

Interpersonal Communications:

• Requires the ability of speaking and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving assignments and/or direction from supervisor.

Language Ability:

• Requires the ability to read and understand a variety of policy and procedures manuals, maintenance manuals, etc.
• Requires the ability to speak with and before others with clarity, voice control and confidence.

Intelligence:

• Requires the ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions, to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in or from standardized situations.
• Requires the ability to learn and understand principles and techniques, to make routine independent judgments in absence of supervision, and to acquire knowledge of topics related to primary occupation.
• Must have the ability to comprehend and interpret received information.

Verbal Aptitude:

• Requires the ability to…