SY - Re-Advertised - Custodian - Elementary

Title

Custodian

Navajo Elementary School

7.5 hours/day

236 days

Minimum: $33,547.00 | Maximum: $40,527.00

To maintain an attractive, sanitary, and safe facility and ensure a clean environment for students, staff, and the public by cleaning designated areas, using cleaning materials and equipment, and minimizing property damage, loss, and liability exposure.

• Cleans assigned school facilities (e.g., classrooms, offices, restrooms, multipurpose rooms, grounds, cafeteria, storage areas) to maintain a sanitary, safe, and attractive environment.
• Arranges furnishings and equipment to prepare meetings, classroom activities, and special events.
• Attends service training (e.g., blood borne pathogens, cleaning solvents, floor care, first aid, maintenance training) to receive information on new and improved procedures.
• Evaluates situations involving staff, students, parents, and the public to take appropriate action or direct personnel for resolution.
• Inspects school facilities to ensure safe operations, cleanliness, and identify necessary repairs due to vandalism, equipment breakage, or weather.
• Maintains supplies and equipment (e.g., cleaning solutions, paper products, vacuums, mops) to ensure availability for proper maintenance.
• Paints interior of classrooms, offices, restrooms to maintain an attractive facility.
• Repairs furniture and equipment (e.g., faucets, toilets, light fixtures) to ensure availability and safe working condition.
• Responds to immediate safety and operational concerns (facility damage, injuries, alarms) to resolve and maintain a functioning educational environment.
• Secures facilities and grounds to minimize property damage, equipment loss, and potential liability.
• Ensures all emergency lighting, fire extinguishers, and playground equipment are maintained in working condition regularly, per local, state, and federal regulations.
• Removes snow and ice from designated areas.
• Regulates furnaces and other heating systems, including air conditioning and ventilation, replacing filters as necessary.
• Empties trash and garbage containers and disposes to designated areas.
• Raises and lowers required agency flags daily.

• Haul trash, mow grass, chop weeds, and trim shrubs.
• Assist other personnel in completing their work activities.
• Perform related duties and responsibilities as required.

• Equivalence to completion of twelfth grade – High School Diploma or GED.
• Some general custodial experience desirable.
• Valid New Mexico driver’s license or ability to obtain one.

• Basic operational characteristics of a school district housekeeping program.
• Basic principles and practices of housekeeping duties.
• English usage, spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
• Basic mathematical principles.
• Learn equipment use and care, storage, record keeping.
• Learn to operate basic housekeeping equipment and machinery (e.g., vacuum cleaner, carpet cleaning equipment).
• Follow oral and written instructions.
• Communicate clearly and concisely in writing and orally in English.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers.
• Maintain mental capacity to make sound decisions and demonstrate intellectual capabilities.
• Maintain physical condition appropriate for assigned duties and responsibilities.

On-site attendance is mandatory. Essential and marginal functions may require moderate to extremely heavy carrying, lifting, and pushing; reaching, climbing, crawling, kneeling, standing, and walking for extended periods; operating motor vehicles; and subject to random drug testing.

Office, shop, and school environment; exposure to cleaning and/or sterilization chemicals, airborne particles, and vibration; exposure to loud noise and outdoor weather conditions.