Evening Custodian M-F (full or part-time)

Job Description

Sioux Falls Lutheran School’s evening custodian will maintain attractive, sanitary, and safe facilities and grounds for students, staff, parents and extended community. In addition to a wonderfully warm, Christian community, we offer a competitive hourly wage, PTO, and health/retirement benefits for the employee.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1.  Work in assigned area vacuuming, emptying trash and recyclables, empty pencil sharpeners, cleaning chalkboards and white boards. Washing walls, woodwork,windows and mirrors.  Dusting (including high dusting), cleaning and polishing metal surfaces. Cleaning and maintaining hard and soft surface floors. Spot-cleaning soft surface floors. Cleaning, sanitizing and deodorizing kitchen and restrooms.
2. Routinely inspects building facilities to identify building maintenance needs, and report needed repair of equipment, furnishings, fixtures, building and site.
3. Assist with regular preventative maintenance of all cleaning equipment.
4. Maintains an appropriate inventory level of cleaning, kitchen and sanitary supplies (paper towels, toilet paper, sanitizer, soap, vomit absorbent, etc.).
5. Keeps all soap, sanitizer, paper towel, and toilet paper dispensers adequately filled.
6. Maintains organized and efficient custodial and maintenance storage spaces and closets.
7. Prepares facility for daily operations as may be required (sweep/shovel/remove snow/sand/wood chips/leaves, etc.).
8. Setting up/tearing down furniture and equipment for school-related activities.
9. Responds to immediate safety and/or operational concerns (i.e. facility damage, injured and ill students, unauthorized persons, alarms, etc.).
10. Works a revised schedule and substitutes for other custodial staff when necessary (e.g. holidays, extended days, weekend activities, etc.).

Reports To:    Facilities Director

Job Requirements

Qualifications:

1. High School diploma.
2. Ability to pass fingerprint background check
3. Prior custodial and facility maintenance experience preferred.
4. Ability to work unsupervised.
5. History of quality work and strong work ethic.
6. Excellent communication skills.
7. Demonstrated positive attitude towards people, ability to work. cooperatively and flexibly.
8. Willingness to accept instructions and training.
9. Ability to pass fingerprint background check.

Physical Requirements:
1. Good physical health including ability to lift 75 pounds.
2. Constant hand-eye and mind-eye coordination, standing and walking.
3. Repetitive motion with wrists, hands, fingers, knees and feet.
4. Frequent bending, carrying, lifting and stooping.
5. Occasional climbing and crawling.