Full time 12-month 1st shift Head Custodian - Southwest Middle School

Head Custodian

Position Goal: To provide students with a safe, attractive, comfortable, clean, and efficient place in which to learn, play, and develop.

Essential Functions:

• Operates and maintains the school heating plant to provide comfortable temperatures at all times.
• Maintains heating plant in clean condition and good repair to assure maximum performance.
• Makes minor adjustments and repairs.
• Notifies boiler mechanic when necessary.
• Orders fuel oil as needed.
• Notifies foreman in case of all other emergencies.
• Serves as custodian leader in the school.
• Replaces some fuses and does minor carpentry work.
• Requisitions supplies as needed.
• Assists in all security problems including making weekend building security checks as required.
• Oversees the training of members of the building custodial staff.
• Certifies all the time records of all custodial employees in the school.
• Keeps building and premises, including sidewalks, driveways, and play areas neat and clean at all times.
• Regulates heat, ventilation, and air conditioning systems to provide temperatures appropriate to the season and to ensure economical usage of fuel, water, and electricity.
• Shovels, plows, and sands walks, driveways, parking areas, and steps, as appropriate.
• Checks daily to ensure that all exit doors are open and all panic bolts are working properly during the hours of building occupancy.
• Raises the United States flag at or before 8:00 AM on each school day, and lowers it at or after 3:30 PM.
• Sweeps classrooms daily and dusts furniture.
• Cleans corridors after school each day, and during the day when their condition requires it.
• Strips wax from floors, waxes and buffs as required.
• Scrubs, hoses down, and disinfects toilet floors daily, and cleans all sanitary fixtures and drinking fountains daily.
• Washes all windows on both the inside and outside.
• Keeps the grounds free from rubbish.
• Maintains grounds by mowing grass, trimming shrubbery, sweeping sidewalks, raking leaves, as necessary to maintain the school grounds in a safe and attractive condition.
• Keeps all floors in a clean and attractive condition. And in a good state of preservation.
• Makes minor building repairs.
• Conducts an ongoing program of general maintenance, upkeep, and repair.
• Moves furniture or equipment within buildings as required for various activities as directed by the principal.
• Complies with local laws and procedures for the storage and disposal of trash and waste.
• Assists truck drivers to unload supplies and deliver to storage areas.
• Interprets and carries out written and oral instructions.
• Prepares written incident reports and communicates orally with other staff members, students, and supervisors.
• Demonstrates ability to move, transport, lift and carry manually, books, supplies, equipment, and trash receptacles up to 50 pounds.
• Demonstrates strength and manual dexterity to operate snow removal or lawn mowing equipment or to shovel snow or mow on an incline with a manual mower.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Superintendent or his/her designee.

Qualification Requirements:

• High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED)
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manual
• Ability to speak effectively to other employees and/or students
• Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide by 10's and 100's
• Ability to apply simple understanding to carry out detailed but basic written and/or oral instructions
• Demonstrates aptitude or competence for performing routine work
• Demonstrates understanding, awareness and skill in working in a manner that minimizes potential of accident/incidents and physical hazards
• Ability to work as a member of a team
• Must be cooperative, congenial and service-oriented

Physical Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools and talk or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms and performs repetitive motions.
• The employee continuously uses hand strength to grasp tools.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• The employee is required to be able to hear conversations and audible signals in quiet and noisy environments.

Work Environment:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in varying temperatures and occasionally will walk on slippery surfaces.
• The employee occasionally has direct responsibility for the safety and well being of others.

Terms of Employment:

As per terms and conditions set forth in the contract between the School District of Reading and the Teamsters Local Union No. 429.