Custodian Lower East Side

Custodian Position

Salary Range: $17-$19/hr plus benefits

Full Time: 7AM to 3PM Mon through Fri

Location: Lower East Side, NY, NY

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The role of the Custodian position includes ensuring that the facility is kept clean and orderly while maintaining the safety of staff and visitors. This includes managing project timing so as not to affect the office's workflow. This role requires flexibility and a quick response time.

Maintain the following areas daily: reception area, restrooms, work areas. This includes sweeping, mopping, emptying trash, cleaning surfaces, glass, windows and sanitizing.

Perform building maintenance and repairs as needed. This may include caring for equipment, plumbing and/or electrical issues, keeping supplies tidy, moving items, pest control, ordering supplies, restocking, landscaping, painting, ensuring all areas are secure, responding to work orders and alerting management to items that you are not able to repair in a timely fashion.

Event management. This includes weekly lunches, meetings and other events. The tasks may include set-up, serving (when necessary) and clean up.

Follow all health and safety regulations.

Perform related duties as assigned by supervisor.

Maintain compliance with all company policies and procedures.

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

Prior experience working in Housekeeping or Custodial capacity preferred.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers.

Ability to work independently and to carry out assignments to completion within parameters of instructions given, prescribed routines, and standard accepted practices.

High school diploma or GED required.

Physical Requirements:

Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.

Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.

Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 lbs.

Must be able to talk, listen and speak clearly on telephone

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

CARES (Community Assistance Resources and Extended Services, Inc.) is to assist children and adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities (ID/DD) and/or mental health conditions and their families, in particular, from under-served multilingual communities, access information, obtain resources and services.