Summer Youth Maintenance Program

Chicopee Public Schools • Chicopee, MA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This program offers a summer opportunity for individuals aged 16 and older who are currently enrolled in high school or college and will continue their studies in the Fall Semester. The role involves general cleaning of school areas, assisting with summer building cleaning which includes moving furniture, cleaning floors, blinds, walls, and doors, and performing outside cleaning chores such as sweeping sidewalks, parking areas, and picking up trash. The position is designed to provide practical work experience while maintaining school facilities during the summer break.

Requirements

• Must be 16 years or older and must be currently attending/enrolled in High School or College and continuing in Fall Semester.
• Must have accessible transportation.
• Physically capable of performing the essential duties associated with the position with or without accommodations.
• Ability to work effectively with staff, students, parents and administrators.
• Ability to conduct and maintain a professional demeanor.
• Multi-task oriented with ability to work independently or as part of a team to complete tasks.
• Demonstrates pride in district, school, students, co-workers and own job.
• Must be physically able to operate a variety of equipment including mop, snow blower, shovel, etc.
• Must be able to exert up to 15 pounds of force, and enough force to constantly lift up to 35 pounds, carry, push, and pull or otherwise move small and large objects.
• Work requires walking, standing, kneeling, squatting to a significant degree.
• Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.
• Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving instructions, assignments or directions to subordinates or assistants.
• Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, newsletters, schedules, manuals, invoices, requisitions, menus, recipes, journals, etc.
• Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, evaluations, procedures, charts, surveys, articles, bid specifications, brochures, news releases, handbooks, budgets, etc., using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style.
• Requires the ability to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control and confidence.
• Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions.
• Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a variety of technical or professional languages including medical, legal, accounting and marketing terminology.
• Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of algebra and geometry.
• Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.
• Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.
• Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools.
• Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
• Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions.
• Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
• Must be able to communicate via telephone.

Responsibilities

• General cleaning of all school areas.
• Assists in providing summer cleaning of buildings which includes lifting and removing furniture from school rooms, cleaning floors and blinds, washing walls, doors, furniture, etc.
• Provides assistance with outside cleaning chores which include sweeping sidewalks and/or parking areas, picking up trash, etc.
• Perform other tasks and responsibilities assigned by the supervisor.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED