Custodian

Position Summary:

Cleans and maintains the college’s buildings and classrooms to ensure the safety, health, and welfare of the students, faculty, staff, and the general public.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Cleans lobbies, offices, corridors, elevators, stairways, classrooms, entrances, etc.


• Provides detailed cleaning consisting of total wipe down of all areas; stripping, sealing, waxing of all resilient floors; carpet and rug vacuuming; window washing and computer screen cleaning; dusting of furniture and equipment; and other cleaning as deemed necessary.


• Sanitizes and cleans restrooms and re-stocks paper supplies.


• Assists in event set-ups and dismantling of tables and chairs for college and community functions.


• Assists in entrance and walkway snow removal.


• Assists with paper and cardboard recycling.


• Secures and unlocks buildings and classrooms as needed.


• Reports maintenance problems when discovered.


• Assists in maintaining and updating procedural manual when needed.


• Assists with building evacuations when necessary.


• Completes other duties as assigned.

There are no supervisory responsibilities associated with this position.

• High school diploma or GED

• Knowledge of chemical usage


• Ability to read and interpret documents


• Ability to work with others

• 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 use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit and talk or hear. 


• Reasonable accommodations will be made for individuals with disabilities.

Statement of Commitment

As part of Terra State Community College’s ongoing commitment in providing the highest quality education and training to our students, faculty, staff and community, the College will:

• Educate students by means of free, open, and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth.


• Equip students with an opportunity to develop the intellectual skills they need to reach their own, informed conclusions.


• Not require, favor, disfavor, or prohibit speech or lawful assembly.


• Create a community dedicated to an ethic of civil and free inquiry, which respects the autonomy of each member, supports individual capacities for growth, and tolerates the differences in opinion that naturally occur in a public higher education community.


• Treat all faculty, staff, and students as individuals, will hold them to equal standards, and provide them equality of opportunity, with regard to those individuals’ race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.