General Cleaner DUNKIRK

Blue Chip Pros•Dunkirk, NY

About The Position

Blue Chip Pros is a commercial cleaning business that provides customized cleaning services to a variety of facilities, including offices, banks, schools, industrial and medical facilities, and department stores. The General Cleaner performs cleaning activities in assigned buildings and facilities to keep them clean, sanitary, and orderly, along with other tasks related to the assigned area. The work includes high dusting; sanitizing and spot cleaning surfaces; cleaning bathrooms; emptying trash; dusting or vacuuming floors; sanitizing floors; and maintaining grounds, common areas, and food court areas. The cleaner checks completed rooms and corrects issues as needed. Hallways, lobbies, stairs, water fountains, furniture, and wall spotting and high dusting are handled daily. Other assigned duties may include floor stripping and waxing, carpet extraction and bonneting, and floor scrubbing and buffing. The role also requires courteous customer interactions, quiet work practices, maintaining a neat appearance, staying in the assigned work area unless directed otherwise, reporting broken or out-of-order items to a supervisor, and notifying the supervisor if an assignment is not completed by the end of the shift.

Requirements

Knowledge of basic janitorial work operations, methods, materials, and equipment.
Knowledge of basic 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.
Ability 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 to perform assigned duties, including extended walking, standing, or sitting; equipment operation; lifting and carrying 1–30 pounds; pushing and pulling with 5–35 pounds of force; climbing stairs and ladders; bending, twisting, balancing, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, handling, grasping, and fingering.
Sight, depth perception, and hand-eye coordination sufficient to perform cleaning tasks, operate equipment, use tools, and maintain safety standards.

Responsibilities

Perform high dusting of surfaces above shoulder height, including lights, curtain tips, vents, and ledges.
Sanitize surfaces below shoulder height and spot-clean fingerprints, smudges, and windows using appropriate cleaning solutions.
Clean bathrooms, including sinks and toilets, and check and refill soap and paper dispensers as needed.
Empty trash cans, clean them when necessary, and replace liners.
Dust or vacuum floors, including beneath furniture, and dispose of collected dust appropriately.
Clean and inspect outside areas, including ash urns, trash cans, sidewalks, flower beds, curb lines, parking lots, benches, vending machines, window ledges, and public-area glass; remove gum and spot-clean spills.
Maintain public common areas by dust mopping and spot mopping hallways, cleaning glass and planters, and checking for cobwebs and debris.
Clean food court tables and trash cans, spot-clean spills, return chairs to their places, transport dirty trays to the washroom, clean trays using a tray power washer, and stack clean trays for reuse.
Sanitize floors using the proper germicidal solution, working under furniture and behind doors.
Inspect completed rooms, check furniture placement, and make corrections as needed.
Clean halls, lobbies, stairs, water fountains, and furniture; perform wall spotting and high dusting daily.
Interact courteously and helpfully with customers, referring questions to someone who can assist when necessary.
Report broken or out-of-order items to the supervisor and report incomplete assignments at the end of the shift.
Remain in the assigned work area unless directed elsewhere by a supervisor, work quietly, and maintain a neat personal appearance.
Perform other assigned duties, which may include stripping and waxing floors, carpet extraction and bonneting, and floor auto-scrubbing and buffing.