Position Title: Custodian
Salary Grade: Salary and work year to be determined by contract.
Department: Administrative
Job Code:
Division: Curriculum and Professional Development
FLSA Status:
Reports to: Principals, Assistant Principals, and Administrative Assistants to the Superintendents
Last Updated: 08/2009
 

General Summary: The Custodian provides students with a safe, attractive, comfortable, clean, and efficient place in which to learn, play, and develop.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
· 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 temperature appropriate to the season and to ensure economical usage of fuel, water, and electricity.

·Shovels, plows, sands walk, 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 U.S. flag at or before 8 a.m. on each school day, and lowers it at or after 3:30 p.m.

·Sweeps classrooms daily and dusts furniture.

· Cleans corridors after school each day, and during the day when their condition requires it.

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

·Washes all windows on both the inside and outside at least twice each year and more frequently if necessary.

·Keeps the grounds free from rubbish.

·Performs such yard keeping chores as grass cutting and tree trimming 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.

·Cleans all chalkboards at least once a week.

·Makes minor building repairs.

·Reports major repairs needed promptly to the head custodian.
Contacts and Communication
Education and Experience
·Any health, literacy, citizenship, or other such requirements.

·Any specific skill mastery required.

·Demonstrated aptitude or competence for assigned responsibilities.

·Such alternative to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

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.

Physical Demands: Lift/ Carry , Stand C (Constantly) 10 lbs. or less F (Frequently)

Walk C (Constantly) 11-20 lbs. F (Frequently)

Sit O (Occasionally) 21-50 lbs. O (Occasionally)

Handling/ Fingering C (Constantly) 51-100 lbs. O (Occasionally)

Reach Outward C (Constantly) Over 100 lbs. O (Not Applicable)

Reach Above Shoulder F (Frequently)

Climb O (Occasionally)

Push/ Pull Crawl O (Occasionally)

Squat or Kneel F (Frequently) 12 lbs. or less F (Frequently)

Bend F (Frequently) 13-25 lbs. F (Frequently) 26-40 lbs. O (Occasionally) 41-100 lbs. O (Occasionally)

OTHER PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Vision (Near, Distance, Color, Peripheral, Depth Perception)

Sense of Sound (ability to carry on telephone conversations)

Sense of Touch (hot, cold)