About The Position

The General Cleaner performs a variety of cleaning activities in assigned buildings and facilities, maintaining clean, sanitary, and orderly conditions, along with other tasks related to the assigned area. Duties include cleaning and sanitizing rooms, bathrooms, floors, hallways, lobbies, stairs, water fountains, furniture, public areas, food court spaces, and outdoor grounds. The cleaner follows established procedures for using cleaning solutions and equipment, checks work upon completion, and makes corrections as needed. The role also involves courteous customer service, reporting damaged or out-of-order items to a supervisor, staying within the assigned work area unless directed otherwise, maintaining a neat personal appearance, and reporting unfinished assignments at the end of a 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, 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.
  • Ability to communicate sufficiently with co-workers 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 the assigned duties, including walking, standing or sitting for extended periods; operating equipment; 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.
  • Ability to perform overhead reaching throughout the shift.
  • Sight, depth perception, and hand-eye coordination sufficient to perform cleaning tasks safely and operate equipment and tools.

Responsibilities

  • High-dust surfaces above shoulder height, including lights, door areas, 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 under furniture and in restrooms.
  • Clean outdoor areas by emptying ash urns and trash cans, picking up litter, spot-cleaning spills, removing gum, wiping benches and vending machines, cleaning window ledges and public-area glass, and policing the parking lot.
  • Maintain public common areas, including dust-mopping and spot-mopping hallways, cleaning glass, maintaining planters, and checking for cobwebs and debris.
  • Clean and sanitize food court tables, return chairs to their places, spot-clean spills, empty trash cans, clean and stack trays, and police outdoor eating areas.
  • 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.
  • Provide courteous customer service, answer or refer questions, and work quietly to minimize noise.
  • Report broken or out-of-order items to a supervisor and report unfinished assignments at the end of the shift.
  • Perform other assigned duties, which may include stripping and waxing floors, carpet extraction and bonneting, and auto-scrubbing and buffing floors.
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