Custodian - Maintenance - LTC II

Tippecanoe County Government • Lafayette, IN

6h • Onsite

About The Position

The Custodian serves the Tippecanoe County Maintenance Department and is responsible for cleaning and maintaining buildings and grounds at County facilities. The position performs routine cleaning and sanitation, handles recycling and waste areas, and helps keep facility entrances and exterior areas safe. The incumbent follows schedules and supervisor instructions, plans and arranges routine work, and refers unusual matters to a supervisor. The position reports directly to the Night Custodial Supervisor and regularly involves evening hours.

Requirements

• Ability to meet department hiring requirements, including passing a background check.
• Working knowledge of and ability to apply basic cleaning, sanitation, safety, and universal health precaution policies and procedures, while ensuring the safety of self and others.
• Ability to understand and follow oral instructions, work orders, material safety data sheets, and product application directions.
• Ability to operate hand and power tools and equipment, including hammers, screwdrivers, wrenches, mops, brooms, steam cleaners, vacuums, carpet cleaners, leaf blowers, manlifts, extractors, scrubbers, and buffers.
• Ability to perform the position's physical duties, including sustained effort; bending, reaching, crouching, kneeling, handling and grasping objects; sitting, walking, and standing for extended periods; and pushing, pulling, lifting, and carrying objects weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to meet the position's vision, depth-perception, speaking, and hearing requirements.
• Ability to provide public access to, or maintain confidentiality of, department information and records according to State requirements.
• Ability to comply with employer and department policies and work rules, including attendance, safety, drug-free workplace, and personal conduct requirements.
• Ability to handle several tasks at once and work rapidly for extended periods, occasionally under time pressure.
• Ability to work alone with minimal supervision and as part of a team.
• Ability to understand, memorize, retain, and carry out written or oral instructions.
• Ability to serve the public with diplomacy and respect, including during occasional encounters with irate or hostile people.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with coworkers, other County departments, and the public, with sensitivity to professional ethics, gender and cultural diversity, and disabilities.
• Ability to regularly work evening hours.

Nice To Haves

• High school diploma or GED preferred.

Responsibilities

• Clean facilities by dusting and polishing furniture and other surfaces; cleaning floor mats; washing windows and windowsills; sweeping and mopping floors; maintaining stairways; and vacuuming carpets.
• Refinish hard-surface floors and collect recyclable items.
• Clean and disinfect restrooms, including fixtures, walls, mirrors, and floors; check and refill products and soap dispensers; empty trash; and use drain cleaner to prevent or clear clogged drains.
• Keep exterior garbage areas and interior recycling areas clean and free of safety hazards.
• Use a leaf blower to clear leaves from sidewalks and shovel snow around doors and entrances as needed.
• Maintain facility security by ensuring doors are secured during working hours.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed