General Cleaner Home Depot Lenoir City

Bluechip Pros•Lenoir City, TN

About The Position

The General Cleaner performs a variety of cleaning activities in assigned buildings and facilities, maintaining clean, sanitary, and orderly conditions and completing other tasks related to the assigned area. Duties include high dusting; sanitizing and spot cleaning surfaces; bathroom cleaning and replenishing dispensers; emptying and cleaning trash cans; dust mopping and vacuuming floors; floor sanitizing; and cleaning grounds, public common areas, and food-court areas. The role may also involve floor care such as stripping and waxing floors, carpet extraction and bonneting, and auto scrubbing and buffing floors. The cleaner inspects completed rooms, checks furniture placement, and corrects issues to help prevent problems or complaints. The position also involves courteous customer service, reporting broken or out-of-order items to a supervisor, working quietly, maintaining a neat personal appearance, and reporting unfinished assignments at the end of a shift. Other duties may be assigned or directed by a supervisor or Account Manager.

Requirements

Knowledge of basic janitorial operations, methods, materials, and equipment.
Knowledge of basic safe work practices and 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 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 assigned duties, including extended walking, standing, or sitting; 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 meet visual demands of cleaning work and safety standards, including depth perception and hand-eye coordination.

Responsibilities

High dust surfaces above shoulder height, including lights, curtain tips, vents, and ledges, using a treated high duster.
Sanitize surfaces below shoulder height and spot-clean fingerprints, smudges, and windows using appropriate solutions.
Clean bathrooms with germicidal solution, including sinks and toilets, and check and refill soap and paper dispensers.
Empty trash cans, wipe them when necessary, and replace liners.
Dust mop or vacuum floors, including under furniture, and clean the dust mophead and dispose of collected dust.
Clean and check outdoor areas throughout the day, including ash urns, trash cans, sidewalks, flower beds, curb lines, parking lots, benches, vending machines, window ledges, and public-area glass.
Clean public common areas, including hallways, planters, and window areas; check for dirt, cobwebs, and debris.
Clean and sanitize food-court tables, spot-clean spills, empty trash cans, move dirty trays to the wash room, clean trays using the tray power washer, and stack clean trays for reuse.
Sanitize floors using the proper germicidal solution, mopping under furniture and behind doors.
Inspect completed rooms, review cleaning steps, check furniture placement, and make corrections as needed.
Clean halls, lobbies, stairs, water fountains, and furniture; perform wall spotting and high dusting daily.
Knock before entering an occupied room, assist customers courteously or refer them to someone who can help, and report broken or out-of-order items to a supervisor.
Work quietly, stay in the assigned work area unless directed elsewhere, maintain a neat personal appearance, and report unfinished assignments to a supervisor.
Perform other assigned duties, which may include stripping and waxing floors, carpet extraction and bonneting, and floor auto scrubbing and buffing.