About The Position

The General Cleaner performs a variety of cleaning activities in assigned buildings and facilities, keeping them clean, sanitary, and orderly. Duties cover indoor and outdoor areas, including rooms, restrooms, hallways, lobbies, stairs, water fountains, food courts, and grounds. The cleaner uses appropriate cleaning solutions and janitorial tools and equipment, follows safe work practices and chemical instructions, checks completed work, and reports broken or out-of-order items to a supervisor. Other duties may be assigned by the 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 and the methods, materials, and equipment used in janitorial work.
  • 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, including chemical instructions and warning labels.
  • Ability to communicate sufficiently with coworkers and supervisors.
  • Ability to operate powered and non-powered janitorial equipment.
  • 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; pushing and pulling with both hands and arms using 5–35 pounds of force; climbing stairs and ladders; bending, twisting, balancing, kneeling, crouching, and crawling; and reaching, handling, grasping, and fingering.
  • Ability to perform overhead reaching throughout the shift and use sight, depth perception, and hand-eye coordination for cleaning tasks and safe equipment operation.

Responsibilities

  • High-dust surfaces above shoulder height, including lights, vents, ledges, and window areas.
  • Sanitize surfaces below shoulder height and spot-clean fingerprints, smudges, and windows using appropriate solutions.
  • Clean restrooms, including sinks and toilets, and check and replenish soap and paper dispensers.
  • Empty trash cans, wipe them as needed, and replace liners.
  • Dust-mop or vacuum rooms, including under furniture, and clean mopheads and dispose of collected dust.
  • Clean outdoor areas by emptying ash urns and trash cans; picking up litter and cigarette butts; spot-cleaning sidewalk spills; removing gum; wiping benches, vending machines, and window ledges; cleaning public-area glass; and policing parking lots.
  • Maintain public common areas by dust-mopping and spot-mopping hallways, cleaning glass, maintaining planters, and checking corners and window areas for dirt and cobwebs.
  • Clean and sanitize food-court tables, return chairs to their places, remove trash, clean trash cans, collect dirty trays, wash them using a tray power washer, and stack clean trays for reuse.
  • Sanitize floors by mopping under furniture and behind doors while working toward the exit.
  • Inspect completed rooms, check furniture placement, and make corrections as needed.
  • Clean halls, lobbies, stairs, water fountains, and furniture; spot-clean walls and perform high dusting daily.
  • Provide courteous customer service, answer or refer questions, work quietly, maintain a neat appearance, stay in the assigned work area unless directed otherwise, and report unfinished assignments or problems to a supervisor.
  • Perform other duties as assigned, which may include floor stripping and waxing, carpet extraction and bonneting, and floor auto-scrubbing and buffing.
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