Porter

Core Spaces•Bloomington, IN

21d•Onsite

About The Position

The Porter helps maintain the cleanliness, appearance, safety, and operational readiness of the community through daily cleaning, groundskeeping, trash management, and property presentation. Working under the direction of the Maintenance Supervisor, the Porter supports a positive resident experience by maintaining common areas, amenities, exterior spaces, and other assigned locations, while assisting with move-ins, move-outs, turn, inspections, and resident events. The Porter identifies routine cleanliness and safety concerns, resolves issues within the scope of the role, and communicates items requiring additional attention. This is a full-time, hourly, non-exempt individual contributor position.

Requirements

High school diploma, GED, or equivalent experience preferred.
Strong work ethic, attention to detail, reliability, and commitment to completing assigned responsibilities consistently and with urgency.
Ability to recognize cleanliness, safety, maintenance, and property-presentation concerns and communicate them appropriately.
Familiarity with basic cleaning equipment, cleaning chemicals, groundskeeping practices, and routine property support activities, with a commitment to following safety standards.
Comfort using basic technology and communication tools and working independently and collaboratively in a resident-facing environment.
Ability to perform physically active work throughout a shift, including frequent standing, walking, bending, stooping, kneeling, reaching, climbing stairs, pushing, pulling, and regularly lifting or moving objects up to 50 pounds.
Ability to remain mobile across the property for extended periods and work indoors and outdoors in varying weather and environmental conditions.
Availability to work additional hours as required, including evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime, and extended hours during peak periods.

Nice To Haves

One or more years of experience in porter services, janitorial services, groundskeeping, facilities support, maintenance support, hospitality, property operations, or a related service-focused environment.
Experience supporting student housing, multifamily, hospitality, residential, commercial, or high-traffic community environments.
Experience using work order systems, mobile checklists, communication tools, or basic property operations technology.
Familiarity with safe cleaning practices, groundskeeping standards, trash management, common-area upkeep, chemical handling, and property presentation expectations.

Responsibilities

Maintain the community’s cleanliness, appearance, and curb appeal across exterior areas, common spaces, amenities, and other assigned locations.
Perform routine cleaning, trash removal, recycling, and waste-management activities, including maintaining trash rooms, dumpsters, compactors, and loading areas and supporting timely vendor and hauler service.
Inspect assigned areas daily for cleanliness, safety, landscape, pest, lighting, and property-presentation concerns; resolve issues within scope and escalate others.
Clean, organize, and prepare amenity spaces, common areas, leasing paths, pool areas, and other resident-facing environments, including removing debris and arranging furniture.
Partner with on-site teams to support move-ins, move-outs, turn, inspections, tours, resident events, vendor visits, and other operational activities.
Represent Core’s service standards through professional, responsive interactions with residents, prospects, guests, vendors, and team members.
Assist with requests within the scope of the role and communicate maintenance or service needs to appropriate team members for follow-up.
Use company systems, checklists, communication tools, and work order processes to document completed work and communicate property needs.
Follow established safety practices, equipment procedures, chemical-handling requirements, personal protective equipment standards, and company policies.
Work the required on-site schedule, accurately record time worked, and be available for additional hours as business needs require, including evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime, and extended hours during peak operational periods.

Benefits

A culture that provides a sense of belonging.
Competitive pay.
Generous PTO.
Paid 14 or more holidays, including the employee’s birthday.
Paid parental leave beginning after 90 days.
Paid volunteer time off.
Robust health plan options beginning within at least 30 days of employment.
Yearly subscription to a meditation app.
Employee Assistance Program for confidential support services.
Company retirement options including a 401(k) with matching and a Roth account option.