Custodian - (Head) Elementary School

Department: Maintenance and Grounds


Length of Work Year: 239 Days


Grade: 110 FLSA


Status: Non - Exempt


Evaluation: BEI


Reports To: Principal/Custodian Coordinator

JOB SUMMARY


This position performs custodial tasks for an assigned school of the district. Employees in this class are responsible for accomplishing a daily routine of custodial tasks that provide school personnel, students, and the public with an environmentally safe, attractive, comfortable, clean, and efficient place in which to work and conduct school activities. Performs related work as directed.

DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS


This job has supervisory responsibilities.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
• Uses electrical cleaning equipment in the cleaning of the assigned facility during hours assigned, i.e., vacuum cleaners, shampoo machines, high speed buffers.
• Uses appropriate chemicals and cleaners safely and productively according to instructions and established State Department of Education regulatory to ensure personal, student, public, and staff safety.
• Ensures assigned areas are properly opened daily, and fully secured upon completion of daily tasks, i.e., locking doors and windows, turning off electrical units.
• Performs custodial tasks, i.e., emptying and cleaning waste receptacles; washing windows; dusting furniture; cleaning vents, fans, walls.
• Performs sanitizing tasks in various facility areas, i.e., restrooms, kitchen and food areas, cafeterias.
• Performs physically demanding tasks requiring use of heavy custodial equipment, i.e., mopping, stripping, waxing, floor buffing.
• Responds to emergency situations in order to confine, resolve, or prevent injurious or otherwise hazardous conditions, i.e., spills, broken windows, broken locks.
• Moves furniture and other equipment in the performance of duties.
• Cleans equipment and tools after use and maintains cleanliness and order in storage areas.
• Reports equipment malfunctions and facility maintenance needs to immediate supervisor.
• Performs routine maintenance on facility custodial equipment, such as changing vacuum cleaner belts and bags, and changing buffer machine pads.
• Performs non-cleaning tasks in general facility maintenance, i.e., changing light bulbs, filling paper and soap dispensers, assisting in setting up for meeting/conferences.
• Functions independently, or as part of a custodial crew depending on the nature of the task, such as in seasonal facility preparations, or other major custodial projects.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS


High School Diploma or State Approved High School Equivalency. Four (4) years of supervisory skills and experience demonstrating ability to safely and effectively operate standard facility custodial equipment; ability to successfully complete the Custodial Maintenance Program, as well as train staff members; and ability to fulfill the physical requirements. Or an equivalent combination of education, experience, and/or training that provides the required knowledge and abilities.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
• Knowledge of custodial equipment and cleaning procedures.
• Skill in the use of equipment related to the essential functions of the job.
• Skill in effective communication, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to arrange, compare, count, differentiate, measure and/or sort data and/or information. Includes judging whether readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics are similar to or divergent from prescribed standards, procedures or routines.
• Ability to exchange information for the purpose of obtaining information or clarifying details. Performs such within well-established policies, procedures, and standards.
• Ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of electrically powered custodial equipment, hand-held supplies, and cleaning tools.
• Ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and advisory data and information.
• Ability to perform addition and subtraction.
• Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form.
• Ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness, and creativity in situations involving a variety of generally pre-defined duties which are often characterized by frequent change.

CERTIFICATION, LICENSE AND SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS


N/A

Salary/Terms/Benefits:

1. 239 day work year; 8 hours per day
2. Salary: Grade 110- Placement on salary schedule based on years of experience. Up to ten (10) years allowed. The stated salary range reflects the opportunity for pay over the course of the employee's tenure. The top pay is not a potential starting salary.
3. Excellent benefits package (including health, dental, vision, and life insurance; employee assistance program); annual, personal and sick leave; membership in State Retirement System.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

1. Complete an online application.
2. Submit professional certificates, transcripts, and three (3) professional evaluations and/or reference letters respective to this position.
3. Submit a resume and cover letter.
4. Incomplete applications may not be considered.

Consideration/interviews will begin as soon as a list of applicants is established. Applications/resumes will be evaluated and only those meeting the qualifications will be considered. Candidates chosen for interviews will be contacted directly. No notification will be sent to applicants except those who are selected for interviews.

BIBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

The Bibb County School District will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to allow them to perform the essential functions of the job when such individuals request an accommodation so long as the accommodation does not create an undue financial hardship for the district. A complete list of physical demands associated with the position can be obtained from HR.