About The Position

The General Cleaner performs a variety of cleaning activities in assigned buildings and facilities to keep them clean, sanitary, and orderly, along with other related tasks. Duties include high dusting, sanitizing and spot cleaning surfaces, cleaning bathrooms, emptying trash, dust mopping or vacuuming floors, sanitizing floors, and cleaning grounds and public common areas. Food-court duties include cleaning and sanitizing tables, handling trays with a tray power washer, and maintaining outdoor eating areas. The cleaner checks completed rooms and corrects issues, maintains courteous customer service, reports broken or out-of-order items to a supervisor, and follows assigned work instructions. Other duties may include floor care such as stripping and waxing, carpet extraction and bonneting, and auto scrubbing and buffing floors.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of basic janitorial work, methods, materials, equipment, and safe work practices.
  • Knowledge of the use of toxic and non-toxic chemicals in accordance with MSDS sheets.
  • Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions, and to communicate sufficiently with coworkers and supervisors.
  • Ability to operate powered and non-powered janitorial equipment.
  • Ability to interpret written instructions and warning labels on cleaning chemicals.
  • Ability to maintain the physical condition needed for assigned duties, including extended walking, standing, or sitting; lifting and carrying equipment, supplies, and trash weighing 1–30 pounds; and pushing or pulling with 5–35 pounds of force.
  • Ability to climb stairs and ladders; bend, twist, balance, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach overhead, handle, grasp, and use fingers throughout the shift.
  • Sight, depth perception, and hand-eye coordination sufficient to perform cleaning tasks and operate equipment and tools safely.
  • Availability for afternoon/evening shifts and weekends.

Responsibilities

  • High dust surfaces above shoulder height using a treated high duster, and clean the duster after use.
  • Sanitize surfaces below shoulder height and spot-clean fingerprints, smudges, and windows using the appropriate solutions.
  • Clean bathrooms, including sinks, toilets, soap dispensers, and paper dispensers; refill dispensers as needed.
  • Empty trash cans, clean them when necessary, and replace liners.
  • Dust mop or vacuum floors, including under furniture, and sanitize floors using the proper germicidal solution.
  • Clean and inspect outside areas, including ash urns, trash cans, sidewalks, flower beds, curb lines, benches, vending machines, window ledges, public-area glass, and parking lots.
  • Maintain public common areas by dust mopping and spot mopping hallways, cleaning glass and planters, and checking corners and window areas for dirt and cobwebs.
  • Clean and sanitize food-court tables, remove trash, return chairs to their places, spot-clean spills, and clean and recycle trays using a tray power washer.
  • Inspect completed rooms, check furniture placement, and correct issues as needed.
  • Clean halls, lobbies, stairs, water fountains, and furniture; perform wall spotting and high dusting daily.
  • Provide courteous customer service, work quietly, remain in the assigned work area, and report broken or out-of-order items to a supervisor.
  • Report incomplete work assignments to a supervisor at the end of the shift.
  • Perform other assigned duties, potentially including floor stripping and waxing, carpet extraction and bonneting, and floor auto scrubbing and buffing.
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