Custodian III

Berkeley County Schools•Martinsburg, WV

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Cleaning and maintenance of the district’s buildings and grounds. This role involves ensuring assigned work areas are kept neat and clean, performing various floor care tasks, cleaning and dusting furnishings, washing windows and mirrors, and sanitizing restrooms, showers, and locker rooms. The Custodian III is also responsible for maintaining cleaning equipment, cleaning chalkboards and whiteboards, collecting trash, moving furniture and equipment as needed, setting up and tearing down for special events, and performing snow removal and application of ice melting materials on steps and sidewalks. Additionally, this position involves reporting items in need of repair, ensuring building security by checking doors, windows, lights, and equipment, raising and lowering flags, and maintaining grounds by removing trash, mowing lawns, and trimming trees as directed. The Custodian III must also be able to communicate, collaborate, and cooperate with colleagues, supervisors, and students.

Requirements

High school diploma or general education degree (GED) preferred.
Pass WV Minimum Objective and Performance School Competency Exam for Custodian
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's.
Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume and distance.
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, staff and the community.
Ability to perform duties with awareness of all district requirements and Board of Education policies.
Regularly required to stand; walk; use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; and talk or hear.
Frequently required to reach with hands and arms.
Occasionally required to sit.
Frequently must squat, stoop or kneel, reach above the head and reach forward.
Continuously uses hand strength to grasp tools and climbs on to ladders.
Frequently bend or twist at the neck and trunk more than the average person while performing the duties of this job.
Must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds such as cleaning supplies, pails and unloading trucks.
Occasionally the employee will lift and/or move up to 90 lbs.
Will sometimes push/pull items such as tables, bleachers, scrubbing machines.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Responsibilities

Keeps assigned work area neat and clean at all times.
Vacuums, shampoos, sweeps, mops, waxes, polishes, and scrubs floor surfaces.
Cleans and dusts furnishings.
Washes windows and mirrors.
Cleans and sanitizes restrooms, showers, and locker rooms.
Keeps cleaning equipment clean and in proper operating condition.
Cleans chalkboards and whiteboards on a regular basis.
Collects trash and places it in trash collection receptacles.
Moves furniture and equipment as necessary.
Sets up and tears down for special events.
Shovels snow as needed from steps and sidewalks.
Applies sand and ice melting materials to steps and sidewalks as needed.
Reports items that are in need of repair.
Assures that exterior doors are locked in accordance to the building schedules, all doors and windows are secure, and lights and equipment are shut off.
Raises and / or lowers flags at the prescribed times.
Keeps grounds free of trash, mows lawns, and trims trees as directed.
Communicates, collaborates, and cooperates with colleagues, supervisors, and students.