Custodian

Description

This position performs routine custodial duties, project work, setups, moves, responds to urgent requests, and minor maintenance and repairs. Custodians are required to complete daily assigned work areas. Floor surfaces are carpet, tile, concrete, terrazzo, wood, and concrete.

LOCATION:

Lynnwood, Washington

This is a classified position reporting to the Custodial Supervisor. For information on applying, please see Application Procedures and Required Documents below. Applications received by January 28, 2026, at 11:59 pm PST will receive priority consideration. The position is open until filled.

• Clean, sanitize, and restock restrooms. Clean a variety of surfaces that include floors, baseboards, chalkboards, white boards, erasers, vents, ledges, walls, furniture, and windows inside and out, etc. Remove trash and clean trash containers up to 55 gallons in size. Sweep outside entrances and sidewalks. Replace lights and clean fixtures and diffusers, some outside the buildings. Set up, take down, and move furniture and equipment for meetings, classes, conferences, and events.
  
  Move furniture, equipment, and heavy objects weighing 50 pounds. More than 50 pounds with assistance or use of appliance dollies to clean, relocate, or set up offices, classrooms, meeting rooms, as well as perform processes necessary to complete required tasks. Perform minor repairs. Clean carpets and refinish floors using appropriate methods and procedures.
• Custodians are responsible for cleaning a variety of the spaces, which include classrooms, restrooms, offices, lounges, board rooms, kitchens, cafeterias, restaurants, auditoriums, lecture halls, banquet rooms, outside entrances to buildings, hallways and foyers, gymnasiums, locker rooms, weight rooms, science labs, computer labs, libraries, reading rooms, work rooms, communications center, art galleries, staircases, child care areas, and other public areas.
• All custodial positions are routinely required to provide furniture moving services to the college, using appliance dollies, desk movers, and considerable physical effort to transport and maneuver items being moved. Items moved include 4-drawer file cabinets, desks, partitions, chairs, tables, and miscellaneous other furniture. This essential function is assigned on an as needed basis, but tasks could be required on a daily basis when numerous departments are relocating with deadlines.

• Physical ability to do the required work.
• Effective English reading and speaking skills.
• Some experience using a computer.
• Knowledge of cleaning agents and chemicals.

* (See Conditions of Employment section for additional requirements.)*

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