FACILITIES: Custodian

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION

Maintains various buildings within the City of Rogers day to day in like-new condition through excellent housekeeping/custodial practice and perform basic building maintenance.

Position requires the employee to provide excellent customer service to both internal and external customers, maintain a positive and effective working relationship with other employees and have regular and reliable attendance that is not disruptive.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Clean and sanitize all bathrooms; and other preparation for opening. This duty is performed daily.

2. Sweep and mop all hard surface floors. This duty is performed daily.

3. Cleans kitchen areas including, but not limited to refrigerators and microwave ovens. This duty is performed daily.

4. Vacuum floors. This duty is performed daily.

5. Dust all rooms in building, including but not limited to furniture, window frames, books shelves, etc. This duty is performed daily.

6. Clean and sanitize drinking fountains. This duty is performed daily.

7. Vacuum upholstered furniture on a rotation basis. This duty is performed weekly.

8. Empty waste baskets and remove trash to designated area(s). This duty is performed daily.

9. Clean sidewalks, entryway and other outside areas of debris, leaves, snow, ice, etc. as necessary. This duty is performed as needed.

10. Clean windows, doors, all glass and baseboards regularly. This duty is performed as needed.

11. Work with Office Manager to purchase safe and cost effective cleaning products. This duty is performed monthly.

12. Buff and wax VCT tile floors on a regular schedule. This duty is performed annually.

13. Assist in setting up meeting rooms. This duty is performed as needed.

14. Report needs for building repair. This duty is performed as needed.

15. Assist in writing improvement plans for facility upkeep, e.g., painting schedules, carpet cleaning, etc. This duty is performed as needed.

16. Perform routine maintenance, e.g. changing light bulbs, replacing screws, touch up painting, etc. This duty is performed as needed.

17. Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.


EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Mental alertness and adaptability to office and field area work routines. Equivalent to four years high school or GED, with particular emphasis during high school in office skills, shop skills, or others, plus 2 years related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.


COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Ability to read and understand documents such as policy manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.


MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to prepare and interpret bar graphs.


CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

Ability to use common sense understanding in order to carry out detailed written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few known variables in situations of a routine nature.


REQUIRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

High school diploma or GED


PREFERRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Formal training in a custodial related field


SOFTWARE SKILLS REQUIRED

Basic: Word Processing/Typing


INITIATIVE AND INGENUITY

SUPERVISION RECEIVED

Under immediate supervision, performs general assignments of work, with periodic check of performance by supervisor.


PLANNING

Limited responsibility with regard to general assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work operations.

DECISION MAKING

Performs work operations which permit frequent opportunity for decision-making of minor importance and which would not only affect the operating efficiency of the individual involved, but would also affect the work operations of other employees and/or clientele to a slight degree.

MENTAL DEMAND

Moderate mental demand. Operations requiring almost continuous attention, but work is sufficiently repetitive that a habit cycle is formed; operations requiring intermittent directed thinking to determine or select materials, equipment or operations where variable sequences may be selected by the employee.

ANALYTICAL ABILITY / PROBLEM SOLVING

Moderately repetitive. Activities with slight variation using a definite set of processes or directions with some degree of supervision. Choice of learned things in situations which conform to clearly established patterns and modes.


RESPONSIBILITY FOR WORK OF OTHERS

Responsibility for work of others: Not indicated.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR FUNDS, PROPERTY and EQUIPMENT

Occasionally responsible for organization's property where carelessness, error, or misappropriation would result in moderate damage or moderate monetary loss to the organization. The total value for the above would range from $5,000 to $150,000.

ACCURACY

Probable errors of internal and external scope would have a moderate effect on the operational efficiency of the organizational component concerned. Errors might possibly go undetected for a considerable period of time, thereby creating an inaccurate picture of an existing situation. Could cause further errors, losses, or embarrassment to the organization. The possibility for error is always present due to requirements of the job.

ACCOUNTABILITY

FREEDOM TO ACT

Standardized. Accepted processes covered by well-defined standardized policies and procedures with supervisory review.

ANNUAL MONETARY IMPACT

The amount of annual dollars generated based on the job's essential duties / responsibilities. Examples would include direct dollar generation, departmental budget, proper handling of organization funds, expense control, savings from new techniques or reduction in manpower.

None. Job does not create any dollar monetary impact for the organization.

IMPACT ON END RESULTS

Modest impact. Job has some impact on the organizations end results, but still from an indirect level. Provides assistance and support services that facilitates decision making by others.


PUBLIC CONTACT

Occasional contacts with patrons on routine matters.


EMPLOYEE CONTACT

Contacts occasionally with others beyond immediate associates, but generally of a routine nature. May obtain, present or discuss data, but only as pertains to an immediate and specific assignment. No responsibility for obtaining cooperation or approval of action or decision.


USE OF MACHINES, EQUIPMENT AND/OR COMPUTERS

Regular use of complex machines and equipment (desktop/laptop computer and software, road and production machines and equipment, driver's license/cdl, etc.)

WORKING CONDITIONS

Outside working environment, wherein there are disagreeable working conditions part of the time.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

The following work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to work in high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, outdoor weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.


PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

The following physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations.

Moderate diversity, moderately physical. Work activities which allow for a moderate amount of diversity in the performance of tasks which requires somewhat diversified physical demands of the employee.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; frequently required to stand, reach with hands and arms; and occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds; frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; distance vision; color vision; peripheral vision; depth perception; and ability to adjust focus.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Must be able to work flexible hours including weekends and evenings.

The staff members in this position are on their feet most of the day. They do touch up painting and work outside to help keep the grounds clean and occasionally snow or ice removal.