Custodians- East Greenwich Public Schools

The East Greenwich School Department is seeking dedicated and detail-oriented Custodians to join our team. The ideal candidates will be responsible for maintaining cleanliness and orderliness in various facilities, ensuring a safe and pleasant environment for all occupants. This role requires a proactive approach to custodial duties, including industrial cleaning, floor care, and general facilities maintenance.

Join our team as a Custodian and contribute to creating a clean, safe, and welcoming school environment for everyone!

In this role the Custodian follows a complex schedule for the performance of custodial duties. The Custodian is required to maintain assigned areas and equipment in a clean, orderly and secure manner. The Custodian does special cleaning and semi-skilled building maintenance periodically and performs routine specialized cleaning tasks during periods of student recess. The Custodian facilitates any and all other duties as assigned by administration necessary for school operation.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Keeps buildings and premises, including sidewalks, driveways and play areas neat and clean at all times.

Keeps the grounds free from trash.

Shovels, plows, and sands walks, driveway, parking areas, and steps as appropriate.

Reports immediately to the building principal any damage to school property.

Regulates heat, ventilation, and air conditioning systems to provide temperatures appropriate to the season and to ensure economical usage of fuel, water, and electricity.

Moves, arranges, and sets up furniture and equipment for athletics, special events, and meetings.

Stacks, assembles and stores furniture, equipment and supplies.

Conducts an ongoing program of general maintenance, upkeep, and repair.

Performs routine non-technical maintenance duties with the use of household hand tools. Makes such minor building repairs to the best of their ability.

May prepare and paint interior and exterior walls.

Reports major repairs needed promptly to the building principal and Facilities Director.

Assumes responsibility for the opening and closing of the buildings each school day and for determining, before leaving, that all doors and windows are secured, and all lights except those left on for safety reasons, are turned off.

Checks daily to ensure that all exit doors are open and all panic bars are functioning properly during the hours of building occupancy.

Assumes responsibility for building security during non-school hours.

Requests, receives, stores and distributes supplies.

Keeps an inventory of supplies, equipment, and fuel on hand, and requisitions such needed replacements from the principal far enough in advance so that they may be delivered in such time as will not hinder the custodian in his duties.

Performs immediate emergency cleanup resulting from vandalism, breakage, spilling or illness.

Confers with supervisors regarding care and cleaning programs at the building.

Participates in thorough cleaning of buildings during summer vacation, including, but not limited to, washing walls, cleaning light fixtures, thoroughly cleaning furniture, stripping and waxing floors.

Sweeps classrooms daily and dusts furniture.

Sweeps, mops, scrubs and waxes floors.

Vacuum rugs and carpets.

Replaces burnt out light bulbs.

Scrapes and cleans baseboards.

Scrub and disinfect restrooms, replenishes supplies and fills dispensers daily.

Scrubs, hoses down, and disinfects toilet floors daily, and cleans all sanitary fixtures and drinking fountains daily.

Cleans corridors after school each day, and during the day when their condition requires it. Picks up trash and litter, empty and clean trash and garbage receptacles.

Washes cafeteria tables, and cleans eating and food preparation areas.

Complies with the local laws and procedures for the storage and disposal of trash, rubbish, and waste.

Performs other related tasks as assigned or required.

Job Requirements

Education equivalent to completion of the twelfth grade or GED.

No experience required, but some previous custodial or janitorial work is desirable.

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.

Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.

Perform moderate physical labor.

Citizenship, residency or work VISA in United States required

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

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee frequently must squat, stoop or kneel, reach above the head and reach forward. The employee continuously uses hand strength to grasp tools and climbs onto ladders. The employee will frequently bend or twist at the neck and trunk more than the average person while performing the duties of this job.

The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds such as cleaning supplies, pails and unload trucks. Occasionally the employee will lift and/or move up to 90 pounds such as salt and bulk furniture. The employee will push/pull items such as tables, bleachers, scrubbing machines. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related to or a logical assignment to the position.

The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.

Pay: From $18.33 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Opportunities for advancement
• Paid time off
• Paid training
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance
• Wellness program

Work Location: In person

Salary : $18