Facility/Event Support Worker PT

Carbondale, City of•Carbondale, IL

13d•Onsite

About The Position

This is a regular, part-time position (no benefits) which involves custodial, maintenance, and security work for the City Hall/Civic Center, and includes the cleaning and maintenance of City offices, Civic Center meeting rooms, corridors, toilet facilities, and building grounds. The Facility/Event Support Worker is supervised by the Lead Facilities/Event Support Worker and the Civic Center Manager.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
Must have and maintain a valid Illinois driver’s license.
Must be able to pass a police background check and drug screening.

Responsibilities

Performs janitorial tasks necessary to maintain all areas in the City Hall/Civic Center in a clean, sanitary, and safe condition, including the vacuuming of carpets using heavy-duty electric vacuum cleaners, walk-behind floor machines, and automatic carpet extractors. Other duties include dry and wet mopping tile floors, glass cleaning (both interior and exterior); dusting, blind cleaning, cleaning and sanitation of bathrooms, including toilets, sinks and urinals; filling/refilling of soap containers, toilet tissue, paper towels; cleaning kitchen appliances, including stove, range, ovens, refrigerators, sinks, grease traps, washing trash cans and installing plastic liners.
Exterior work includes mowing with a push-type powered mower, string trimming, snow and ice removal using shovels and scrapers, policing the grounds, and cleaning up debris and leaves.
Perform minor equipment maintenance and repairs per the manufacturer’s literature, and replace burned-out light bulbs and fluorescent tubes.
Empty trash cans into dump carts and empty dump carts into dumpsters, and clean and sanitize empty trash cans. Trash containers can be as large as 32 gallons with lids and contain diapers, paper, liquid and solid food. Work includes grasping and lifting trash containers safely and appropriately.
Implement written and verbal instructions from supervisors.
Set up audio-visual equipment, set up tables and chairs according to instructions.
Assist tenants and staff with delivery of supplies and materials.
Assist staff and tenants with event set-ups.
Effectively communicate with supervisors and co-workers both orally and in writing.
Interact courteously and tactfully with the general public.
Provide access to the City Hall/Civic Center for scheduled weekend and evening events on a call-in basis by reporting to the facility per the schedule sheet, unlocking doors to allow access to the facility by the user, disarming the security alarm, reiterating instructions to the user, departing and returning at the time the event is scheduled to end, re-setting the locks and security alarm.
Perform other duties as assigned for the overall operation of the Civic Center.