Substitute Custodian (Night Shift)

Substitute Custodian – Night Shift

POLYTECH School District is seeking custodian candidates to join our district team. As a substitute custodian, you will develop and implement custodial services in order to provide a clean, comfortable, healthy, safe, and attractive facility with no disruption to educational programs.

Job Responsibilities:

• Performs general custodial responsibilities; i.e., scrub, wax, buff, dust, sweep or clean floors, walls, blinds, furniture, lavatories, locker rooms, lockers, shelves, offices, fixtures and glass surfaces, as required to preserve designated spaces.
• Assists in maintaining seasonal grounds work (i.e. snow removal, lawn care).
• Restocks disposable items and provides head custodian with inventory usage and data.
• Assists in the delivery of supplies and equipment.
• Assists outside organizations using school facilities, as assigned.
• Follows all district and building safety regulations.
• Other duties as assigned.

Essential Qualifications and Skills:

• Education: High school diploma or GED preferred
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience working as a custodian or in a related field
• Essential Knowledge, Skills and Behaviors:
• Be available on an on-call basis to accept daily, weekly and/or long term opportunities.
• Follow through with accepted substitute custodian assignments and arrive on time.
• Perform effectively in environments with competing demands.
• Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
• Read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
• Write routine reports and correspondence.
• Speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.
• Add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide 10's and 100's.
• Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume and distance.
• Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, staff and the community.
• Perform duties with awareness of all district requirements and Board of Education policies.

Physical Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; as well as talk or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is frequently required to sit, squat, stoop, kneel, reach above the head and reach forward.
• The employee continuously uses hand strength to grasp tools and climb onto ladders.
• The employee will frequently bend or twist at the neck and trunk more than the average person while performing the duties of this job.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds; such as cleaning supplies, pails and unloading trucks.
• Occasionally the employee will lift and/or move up to 90 pounds; such as salt and bulk furniture.
• The employee will sometimes push/pull items such as tables, bleachers and scrubbing machines.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, color vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works indoors and will occasionally work outdoors.
• The employee will work near or with moving mechanical equipment.
• The employee may occasionally work with toxic or caustic chemicals such as petroleum products, degreasers and sprays.
• The employee must be able to meet deadlines with severe time constraints.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Terms of Employment:

• This is a flexible, part-time, as needed position.
• This position reports to the Chief Custodian.
• Successful completion of Criminal Background Check, TB Test, and Child Protection Registry Clearance must be completed prior to start of employment.
• Salary will be calculated in accordance with the verified educational level and work experience of the selected candidate and in accordance with the district's Custodian Salary Scale.
• Direct deposit of payroll checks is mandatory and employees are paid on a lag pay schedule with the first payment made after approximately one month of employment.

Application Requirements:

• External applicants must use the online external application and upload a letter of interest, resume or curriculum vitae, and three (3) letters of professional reference that are dated within the last year or the application will be considered incomplete.
• Current POLYTECH employees must use the online internal application to submit a letter of interest, resume or curriculum vitae, and three (3) letters of professional reference that are dated within the last year or the application will be considered incomplete.