Institutional Aide (Per-Diem)

City of New York • New York, NY

5h

About The Position

The Institutional Aide performs routine work within the Office of Chief Medical Examiner’s Facilities Unit under supervision. The position is temporary, with an 18-month duration, and is per diem. Duties include sanitation and waste handling, cleaning and maintaining floors and facilities, moving furniture, grounds work when assigned, handling supplies, and packaging and documenting the transfer of biohazardous waste for disposal.

Requirements

• Ability to read and write English and to understand and carry out simple instructions.

Responsibilities

• Dispose of garbage, maintain sanitation, and break down corrugated cartons.
• Empty wastepaper baskets, polish metal, and move furniture.
• Wash plaster, tile, and marble walls and wallpaper.
• Maintain floors by sweeping, mopping, rinse mopping, stripping, waxing, and buff polishing.
• Clean porters’ closets, storage areas, and supply areas.
• When assigned to outside grounds work, sweep, clean up trash, and shovel snow when applicable.
• Help unload, store, and issue supplies as needed.
• Clean toilet, bath, and shower facilities, offices, stairs, and hallways.
• Package and label biohazardous waste material, and issue and record its transfer to a private contractor for carting and disposal.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed