About The Position

The General Cleaner performs cleaning activities at an assigned Home Depot facility in Nashville, keeping the building and surrounding areas clean, sanitary, and orderly. The role includes cleaning rooms, bathrooms, floors, public common areas, the food court, and exterior grounds; using cleaning chemicals and janitorial equipment; and completing visual inspections to ensure work is satisfactory. The listed schedule is 6 a.m.–11 a.m., three, four, or seven days per week. The cleaner is expected to provide courteous customer service, work quietly, stay in the assigned work area unless directed otherwise, report broken or out-of-order items to a supervisor, and notify the supervisor if assigned work is not completed by the end of the shift. Other duties may be assigned by a supervisor or Account Manager, including floor stripping and waxing, carpet extraction and bonneting, and floor auto-scrubbing and buffing.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of basic janitorial work, including methods, materials, and equipment.
  • Knowledge of basic safe work practices and the use of toxic and non-toxic chemicals according to MSDS sheets.
  • Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions and interpret cleaning-chemical instructions and warning labels.
  • Ability to communicate sufficiently with coworkers and supervisors.
  • Ability to operate powered and non-powered janitorial equipment.
  • Ability to meet the physical demands of the work, including extended walking, standing, or sitting; lifting and carrying equipment, supplies, and trash weighing 1–30 pounds; pushing and pulling with both hands and arms using 5–35 pounds of force; climbing stairs and ladders; bending, twisting, balancing, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching overhead, and handling and grasping tools and equipment.
  • Visual ability, including depth perception and hand-eye coordination, to perform cleaning tasks and operate equipment safely.

Responsibilities

  • Perform high dusting of surfaces above shoulder height, including lights, vents, ledges, and window areas.
  • Sanitize and spot-clean surfaces, including furniture, telephones, countertops, doorknobs, walls, and windows.
  • Clean bathrooms with germicidal solution; clean toilets, sinks, soap dispensers, and paper dispensers, and refill dispensers as needed.
  • Empty and clean trash cans as needed, replace liners, and remove liquid from cans when present.
  • Dust mop or vacuum floors, including under furniture, and clean mopheads and dispose of collected dust.
  • Clean exterior grounds by emptying ash urns and trash cans, removing litter and cigarette butts, spot-cleaning sidewalk spills, removing gum, wiping benches and vending machines, cleaning lower window ledges and public-area glass, and checking parking lots.
  • Clean public common areas, including hallways, planters, glass, and window areas; check corners and edges for dirt, cobwebs, and debris.
  • Clean and sanitize food-court tables, spot-clean spills, empty trash cans, collect dirty trays, wash trays using a tray power washer, stack clean trays, and police outside eating areas.
  • Sanitize floors with the proper germicidal solution, working from the back of the room and mopping 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.
  • Provide courteous, helpful customer service; answer questions or refer customers to someone who can help.
  • Report broken or out-of-order items and incomplete assignments to a supervisor; work quietly and maintain a neat personal appearance.
  • Perform other assigned duties, which may include floor stripping and waxing, carpet extraction and bonneting, and floor auto-scrubbing and buffing.
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