Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Successful BCII/FBI background checks

Knowledge of:

• Standard principles, methods, materials, and equipment used in one or more of the custodial and maintenance trades.
• Requirements of maintaining buildings and equipment in safe, clean, and orderly condition.
• Preventive maintenance principles and practices.
• Work hazards and common job safety precautions.
• Safety practices and procedures, health standards, and hazards.

Ability to:

• Demonstrate skill in custodial and maintenance trades position.
• Operate and use the required tools and equipment skillfully and safely.
• Plan, Organize, Identify and prioritize needs, and solve problems independently as appropriate.
• Work precisely and with attention to detail and perform heavy physical labor without immediate supervision.
• Adapt easily to work assignments, additional priorities, and new procedures.
• Maintain and perform daily work cleaning schedules and other assigned tasks.
• Use computer/technology as appropriate to perform duties.
• Understand and carry out oral and written instructions.
• Perform grounds equipment operation work, including the operation of power mowers and edger’s.
• Perform snow removal using equipment.
• Lift and carry supplies and small equipment.
• Use, make repairs and maintain equipment, building, buffers, vacuums and other tools, machinery used by the custodial staff.
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:
• stand, sit, walk, use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, talk or hear.
• reach with hands and arms, squat, stoop or kneel, reach above the head and reach forward, use hand strength to grasp tools and climbs on to ladders.
• bend or twist at the neck and trunk more than an average person while performing duties of this job.
• lift and/or move up to 50 pounds (cleaning supplies, pails, loading/unloading trucks).
• push/pull items (tables, bleachers, scrubbing machines).
• operate custodial cart, vacuum cleaners, carpet shampoo machines, floor sander, buffers, and related custodial equipment.