2024-2025 SY - Custodian

Position Type:
Maintenance/Custodial/ Custodian

Date Posted:
1/13/2025

Location:
Thoreau Elementary School

Date Available:
SY2024-2025

Closing Date:
01/27/2025

&nbsp&nbsp Title: Custodian
Work Location: Thoreau Elementary School
Work Hours: 7.5 hours/Day
Contract Length: 236 Days
Minimum Salary: $32,258.00
Maximum Salary: $38,970.00

To maintain an attractive, sanitary and safe facility and to ensure a clean and safe environment for students, staff and public by cleaning designated areas, using a variety of cleaning materials and equipment and minimizing property damage, loss and liability exposure.

Received immediate supervision from higher level staff.

Essential Function Statements - Essential duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Cleans assigned school facilities (e.g., classrooms, offices, restrooms, multipurpose rooms, grounds, cafeteria, storage areas, etc.) for the purpose of maintaining a sanitary, safe and attractive environment.
  
• Arranges furnishings and equipment for the purpose of providing adequate preparations for meetings, classroom activities and special events.
• Attends service training (e.g., blood borne pathogens, cleaning solvents, floor care, first aid, maintenance training, etc.) for the purpose of receiving information on new and/or improved procedures.
• Evaluates situation (e.g., involving staff, students, parents, the public, etc.) for the purpose of taking appropriate action and/or directing appropriate personnel for resolution.
• Inspects school facilities for the purpose of ensuring that the site is suitable for safe operations, maintained in an attractive and clean condition, and/or identifying necessary repairs due to vandalism, equipment breakage, weather conditions, etc.
• Maintains supplies and equipment (e.g., cleaning solutions, paper products, vacuum, mops, etc. for the purpose of ensuring the availability of items required to properly maintain facilities.
• Paints interior of classrooms, offices, restrooms, etc. for the purpose of maintaining an attractive facility.
• Repairs furniture and equipment as may be required (e.g., faucets, toilets, light fixtures, etc.) for the purpose of ensuring that items are available and in safe working condition.
• Responds to immediate safety and/or operational concerns (e.g., facility damage, injured and ill students, alarms, etc.) for the purpose of taking appropriate action to resolve immediate safety issues and maintaining a functioning educational environment.
• Secures facilities and grounds for the purpose of minimizing property damage, equipment loss and potential liability to organization.
• Ensures that all emergency lighting, fire extinguisher and playground equipment are maintained in property working condition on a routine and regular basis, as required by local, state and federal policies and regulations.
• Remove snow and ice from designated areas.
• Regulates furnaces or other heating systems in sue, including air conditioning and ventilating systems necessary for the comfort and safety of occupants; replaces filters as necessary.
• Empties trash and garbage containers for building and cafeteria and removes to designated areas.
• Raises and lowers the United States, State and other required agency flags daily.

Marginal Functions:

• Haul trash, mow grass, chop weeds and trim shrubs.
• Assists other personnel for the purpose of supporting them in the completion of their work activities.
• Perform related duties and responsibilities as required.

Qualifications

Knowledge of:

• Basic operational characteristics, services and activities of a school district housekeeping program.
• Basic principles and practices of housekeeping duties.
• English usage, spelling, grammar and punctuation.
• Basic mathematical principles.

Ability:

• Learn equipment use and care, storage, record keeping.
• Learn institutional housekeeping duties.
• Learn to operate basic housekeeping equipment and machinery, e.g., vacuum cleaner and carpet cleaning equipment.
• Learn to accurately and correctly apply applicable mathematical principles.
• Learn to understand to follow oral and written instructions.
• Learn to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing in the English language.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
• Maintain mental capacity which allows the capability of making sound decisions and demonstrating intellectual capabilities.
• Maintain physical condition appropriate to the performance of assigned duties and responsibilities.

Experience and Training Guidelines: Any combination of experience and training that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:

• Experience: Some general custodial experience desirable.
• Education: Equivalent to completion of the twelfth grade - High School Diploma or GED Equivalency

License or Certificate: Possession of, or ability to obtain a valid New Mexico drivers license.

Working Conditions:

Environmental Conditions : Office, shop and school environment; exposure to cleaning and/or sterilization chemicals and airborne particles and vibration; exposure to loud nose and frequently works in outside weather conditions.

Physical Conditions: Essential and marginal functions may require maintaining physical condition necessary for moderate to extremely heavy carrying, lifting, and pushing; reaching, climbing in high, precarious places, crawling, sitting, kneeling, standing and walking for extended periods of time; operation of motor vehicles; and subject to random drug testing.