Building Custodian - Metro Regional Center

MRC Building Custodian

Hello, we're Metro! Metro is dedicated to shaping a better future for the greater Portland region. The work the people of Metro do every day benefits the lives of the people who live here, today, and tomorrow.

Do you enjoy working in a collaborative environment where everyone supports one another? Are you familiar with sustainable cleaning practices? Do you take pride in providing great customer service while creating clean, safe, and comfortable spaces for others? If this sounds like you, we invite you to consider this opportunity.

As MRC Building Custodian, you will help ensure the cleanliness, care, and daily upkeep of the Metro Regional Center (MRC). This includes lobbies, kitchens, offices, meeting and break rooms, restrooms, and the surrounding campus grounds. You will contribute to a welcoming experience for staff and visitors by providing friendly assistance, answering questions, offering directions, and responding to custodial requests.

As the Building Custodian you will:

• Help create a welcoming, professional environment by keeping meeting spaces, offices, restrooms, and common areas clean, comfortable, and ready for daily use.
• Support smooth operations by preparing meeting rooms based on Outlook schedules, ensuring spaces are refreshed, organized, and guest ready.
• Take pride in maintaining high standards of cleanliness through daily sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, dusting, disinfecting, and restocking essential supplies.
• Keep kitchens and break areas inviting by caring for dishware, appliances, and stocked items so employees have everything they need throughout the day.
• Play an important role in sustainability by managing compost, recycling, and waste systems and ensuring containers are clean and properly staged for pickup.
• Help maintain safe, attractive exterior spaces—from walkways and parking areas to building entrances—ensuring they're clean, accessible, and well-kept in all seasons.
• Provide friendly, responsive support by assisting employees and guests with custodial needs, quick requests, and event setups as they arise.
• Use cleaning equipment safely and effectively, follow organizational procedures, and collaborate with the team on special projects that keep the entire facility looking its best.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Attributes for success:

• A solid understanding of basic custodial practices and a commitment to maintaining clean, welcoming spaces. Ability to safely and confidently use custodial tools, equipment, and cleaning supplies.
• Strong customer service mindset with the ability to support staff and visitors in a friendly, professional manner. Excellent attention to detail and pride in delivering high-quality work.
• Comfort using Microsoft Outlook for email and calendar coordination.
• Clear, respectful, and tactful communication skills—both in person and over email or radio. Ability to adapt and stay effective in environments where priorities may shift or ambiguity exists. Strong teamwork skills and the ability to work independently when needed.
• Ability to build positive working relationships and maintain confidentiality.
• Capacity to meet the physical requirements of the role and operate custodial equipment safely (with or without reasonable accommodation).
• Exhibit regular, predictable attendance of assigned work schedule.

Diversity and Inclusion

At Metro, we strive to cultivate diversity, advance equity, and practice inclusion in all of its work. This means attracting and empowering a workforce that is inclusive of a broad range of human qualities. Workplace diversity is both a moral imperative and a business strength, essential to providing quality support and services to our region. Metro's goal is to hire, develop and retain highly skilled and talented individuals across all departments and programs who best reflect the diversity of our community.

To qualify

We will consider any combination of relevant work experience, volunteering, education, and transferable skills as qualifying unless an item or section is labeled required. Please be clear and specific in your application materials on how your background is relevant.

Minimum qualifications

• One year of custodial/janitorial experience, and
• Experience operating a variety of specialized cleaning equipment, such as floor scrubbing machines, carpet shampooing equipment and high-speed floor polishing equipment or other similar equipment, or
• Any combination of education and experience that provides the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the job duties and responsibilities.

Required:

• Be able to successfully complete a background check at time of hire.

Special Requirements (to be completed within 90 days of hire):

• Blood Borne Pathogen Training
• Emergency and Safety Procedures Training

Shift and schedule: Tuesday – Thursday 11am – 7:30pm and Friday 10:30am – 7:00pm; 32 hours per week.

Working Conditions: Duties may be performed under various conditions, which may include exposure to contaminated areas, at heights, indoor and outdoor locations under inclement weather, and other adverse conditions. Physically demanding position with frequent standing and lifting of 30 pounds on a regular basis; occasionally up to 50 pounds.

If this statement is true for you, then you may be ineligible to apply:

If you were terminated for cause during any employment with Metro, or resigned in lieu of termination, you may be ineligible for rehire for a minimum of 3 years.

Like to have qualifications

• Experience working in a team environment.
• Experience operating a variety of specialized cleaning equipment, such as floor scrubbing machines, sweeping machines, carpet cleaning equipment and high-speed floor polishing equipment or other similar equipment.

Screening and Evaluation

The application packet: The application packet consists of the following required documents. Please ensure that you upload these documents in your online application. Make sure your application is complete, missing any part of these items could result in an incomplete application and will not be moved forward in the recruitment.

• A completed online application
• Responses to supplemental questions

The selection process: We expect to evaluate candidates for this recruitment as follows. The selection process is subject to change.

• Initial review of minimum qualifications
• In-depth evaluation of application materials to identify the most qualified candidates
• Consideration of top candidates/interviews
• Testing/assessments (if applicable)
• Reference check
• Background check for finalist candidate

Compensation and Representation

The full-salary range for this position is step 1: $23.28 to step 7: $31.20 per hour. However, unless a candidate's qualifications justify, based on the Oregon Pay Equity Act requirements and Metro's internal equity review process, the appointment will likely be made between step 1: $23.28 to the equity range step 4: $26.95 per hour.

This position is eligible for overtime and is represented by AFSCME union. It is classified as a Building Custodian - MRC.

Questions?

Recruiter: Megan Warneke

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