SY 26 -27 Custodian

Center School District•Kansas City, MO

22h•Onsite

About The Position

The Custodian is responsible for maintaining a safe, attractive, comfortable, clean, and efficient environment for students to learn, play, and develop. This role involves a wide range of cleaning, maintenance, and repair tasks to ensure the school building and grounds are well-kept and functional.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED preferred

Responsibilities

Keeps building and premises, including sidewalks, driveways, and play areas, neat and clean at all times.
Regulates heat, ventilation, and air conditioning systems to provide temperatures appropriate to the season and to ensure economical usage of fuel, water, and electricity.
Shovels, plows, and sands walks, driveways, parking areas, and steps, as appropriate.
Checks daily to ensure that all exit doors are open and all panic bolts are working properly during the hours of building occupancy.
Raises the U.S. flag at or before 8:00 a.m. on each school day, and lowers it at or after 3:30 p.m.
Sweeps classrooms daily and dusts furniture.
Cleans corridors after school each day, and during the day when their condition requires it.
Cleans toilet floors daily, and cleans all sanitary fixtures and drinking fountains daily.
Washes all windows on both the inside and outside at least twice each year, and more frequently if necessary.
Keeps the grounds free from rubbish.
Performs yard keeping chores such as grass cutting and tree trimming as necessary, to maintain the school grounds in a safe and attractive condition.
Keeps all floors in a clean and attractive condition and in a good state of preservation.
Cleans all chalkboards at least once a week.
Makes minor building repairs.
Reports major repairs needed promptly to the head custodian.
Maintains on a regular schedule all motors and other mechanical equipment requiring scheduled servicing.
Reports immediately to the principal any damage to school property.
Remains on the school premises during school hours, and during non-school hours when the use of the building has been authorized and extended work hours have been approved.
Assumes responsibility for the opening and closing of the building each school day and for determining, before leaving, that all doors and windows are secured, and all lights, except those left on for safety reasons, are turned off.
Keeps an inventory of supplies, equipment, and fuel on hand, and requisitions needed replacements from the principal.
Conducts an ongoing program of general maintenance, upkeep, and repair.
Moves furniture or equipment within buildings as required for various activities and as directed by the principal.
Complies with local laws and procedures for the storage and disposal of trash, rubbish, and waste.
Assumes responsibility for the safe condition of the swimming pool, if the building has one, making all necessary water tests, backlashing the filters, and refilling the pool as necessary.
Conducts periodic inspections and tests of all electrical installations in the school to ensure their safe condition.
Performs other duties as assigned.