7.04 Custodian
JOB DESCRIPTION

 
Reports To: Maintenance Director, Principal, Local Superintendent.
Employment Status: Full Time
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
 
Qualifications: 1. Valid driver's license.
2. Have a belief in education and a concern for children.
3. Ability to make clear and comprehensive reports.
4. Willingness to work and assume responsibility,
conscientious, develops and improves his/her proficiency.
5. Minimum age of 18 for full-time employees and 9 years of education.
6. Good health, high moral character, and good attendance record.
7. Capable of working with others and maintaining good public relations.
8. Physically able to perform the duties of the position.
9. Demonstrated aptitude for successful fulfillment of
assigned responsibilities as listed.
10. Such additional qualifications as The Board of Education
may find appropriate.
11. At the discretion of the Board of Education alternate job
qualifications may be substituted
 
General Description: Perform custodial work required for the routine care, maintenance, protection, and preservation of the assigned building, its contents, and grounds.
 
Essential Functions:
 
1. Performs and is directly responsible for the routine maintenance and repair of the building and its equipment, plus all phases of housekeeping duties.
 
2. Develops and ensures proper function of work, inspection, maintenance, and cleaning schedules with the cooperation of the maintenance director, principal and/or designee.
 
3. Maintains a clean, safe, and neat boiler room (if applicable).
 
4. Removes snow, ice, debris from walks, steps, and entry ways.

5. Helps unload trucks, receives, checks, and stores supplies.
 
6. Does required tasks such as sweeping, mopping floors, emptying and cleaning waste receptacles, trash, and pencil sharpeners, refilling towel and soap dispensers, and toilet tissue on a daily basis; corridors may need more frequent attention; other tasks such as removing cobwebs, cleaning high traffic area windows, cleaning all chalkboards on a weekly basis; and other tasks such as waxing floors, dusting, polishing furniture and woodwork as necessary and washing all windows in assigned area at least twice each year.
 
7. Keeps buildings in a neat and presentable fashion; play areas neat and clean
(inside and outside).
 
8. Regulates heat, ventilation, and air conditioning systems (if applicable) to provide temperatures appropriate to the season and ensures economical usage of fuel, water, and electricity.
 
9. Remains on school property during scheduled work hours unless permission to leave is granted by the administration.
 
10 Maintains the necessary supplies and equipment to perform custodian tasks and informs maintenance director when supplies need ordered.
 
11. Opens and secures the building each day; turns on/off lights as requested.
 
12. Cleans and maintains custodial equipment and materials.
 
13. Keeps the school yard mowed and maintained in a neat and well-kept fashion as requested.
 
14. Reports areas that need special maintenance or cleaning to the maintenance director.
 
15. Assists in moving and arranging furniture and equipment as requested.
 
16. Makes minor repairs to building, furniture, equipment, and so forth, and reports the need
for other repairs to the maintenance director.
 
17. Reports any damage to school property immediately to maintenance director and administration
 
18. Replenishes supplies in rest rooms; changes ballasts and light bulbs.
 
19. Cleans exit mats periodically as needed.
 
20. Cooperates with others on staff.
 
21. Assist lunchroom personnel in the housekeeping duties of the kitchen and cafeteria,
including the removal of refuse.
 
22. Completes reports and forms as required.
 
23. Complies with local, state, and federal laws and procedures for the storage and disposal of trash, rubbish, and waste.
 
24. Cleans building during the summer under the supervision of the maintenance director principal, and/or local superintendent.
 
25. Cleans ventilator filters in rooms during summer.
 
26. Reports problems of a custodial nature to the maintenance director; if unresolved, then the principal, and so forth.
 
Unique responsibilities of the day custodian:
 
1. Picks up mail daily at local post office.
 
2. Checks in with high school secretary and elementaryI superintendent secretary daily between 9:00 and 9:30 a.m. for any messages, special requests, or room deliveries. Gives report of general whereabouts on an hourly basis.
 
3. Helps with minor repairs to school buses and minor service needs such as checking oil, brake fluid, jumping buses to get started or charging batteries.
 
4. Unlocks building in morning as requested by maintenance director or administration and has building prepared for classes and total building use.
 
5 Mops cafeteria floor daily at conclusion of student lunch. Unique responsibilities of the day/night custodian:
1. Installs barriers in hallways when appropriate.