Night Custodian: Uplift Mighty Preparatory

Mission Statement

Uplift's mission is to create and sustain public schools of excellence that empower each student to reach their highest potential in college and the global marketplace and that inspire in students a life‑long love of learning, achievement, and service in order to positively change their world.

Performs nightly custodial tasks that provide school personnel, students, and the public with an environmentally safe, attractive, comfortable, clean and efficient place in which to work and conduct school activities.

Routine nightly cleaning: sweeping, mopping, wiping down furniture, cleaning restrooms, removing trash and placing it in dumpsters.

Maintenance of campus buildings, facilities, grounds, and equipment.

Assist with cafeteria dining area set‑up for morning use.

• Routine light maintenance tasks such as unclogging toilets or drains, fixing restroom partitions, repairing furniture, or maintaining janitorial equipment.
• Non‑routine cleaning: cleaning waste receptacles; washing windows (interior and exterior); pressure washing building exterior; dusting furniture; cleaning vents, fans, walls, and ceilings; deep cleaning tile, grout, carpet, LVT, VCT, and other flooring; performing deep cleaning duties that require a ladder or other lifting equipment such as high‑window cleaning, high dusting, bulb replacement, and replacement of ceiling tiles.
• Non‑routine maintenance: performing stripping and waxing operations; moving furniture as needed for stripping/waxing or other reasons; painting classrooms, hallways, offices, and atriums; changing light bulbs; cleaning bodily fluids and disinfecting surfaces; notifying school administration of needed major repairs or equipment failure; maintaining organization of storage, supply, and maintenance areas; keeping a record of inventory and ordering supplies; responding to emergency situations to confine, resolve, or prevent hazardous conditions;
  
  reporting emergencies to the Operations Director; additional duties as assigned.

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent or minimum 2 years’ experience in the janitorial service industry or 2 years’ experience in building maintenance. Experience working in a school environment preferred but not required.
• Special Skills/
  
  Certifications:
  
  Experience with quality control checks.

• Communication
  
  Skills:
  
  Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common technical instructions; respond to and resolve common complaints; present information to campus and central office management; read, write, speak, and understand English effectively.
• Bi‑lingual
  
  Skills:
  
  No bi‑lingual skills are required.
• Technology:
  Ability to learn and use computer software to view work orders for the day; use basic office equipment; learn to operate a burglar alarm; use a smartphone to send and receive photos and text messages; use standard custodial equipment with computerized displays and controls; use a computer to complete video or teleconference training.

• Sit and stand for extended periods of time.
• Articulate wrists, hands, and fingers.
• Extensive walking.
• Require reaching, balancing, stooping, kneeling, twisting, bending, climbing, and crawling.
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Frequently lift or move furniture or supplies such as café tables, office supplies, and janitorial supplies.
• Frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and exposed electrical terminals.
• Extended periods of being outside during extreme hot or cold weather.
• Occasional exposure to fumes or airborne particles, extreme cold and extreme heat.
• Vision: distance, color, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Occasional exposure to loud equipment.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The noise level is moderate and may have frequent interruptions. Work in a wide variety of environments as found in all areas of the school(s) and construction site; continual walking and standing; frequent heavy lifting and carrying. Tasks are regularly performed with potential exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as strong odors, fumes, dusts, wetness, humidity, machinery, vibrations, temperature and noise extremes, disease, pathogenic substances and toxic/poisonous agents.

There may be activity from other employees and students of a distracting nature.

Uplift Education is an equal employment opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state or local law.