CUSTODIAN

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• Responds to internal and external customers in a timely, accurate, courteous and empathetic manner representing OCPS in a positive light.
• Uses electrical cleaning equipment (vacuum cleaners, shampoo machines, high speed buffers) during assigned hours.
• Uses appropriate chemicals and cleaners safely and productively according to instructions and established State Department of Education regulatory to ensure personal, student, public, and staff safety.
• Ensures assigned areas are properly opened daily, and fully secured upon completion of daily tasks (locking doors and windows, turning off electrical units).
• Performs custodial tasks (emptying and cleaning waste receptacles; washing windows; dusting furniture; cleaning vents, fans, walls).
• Performs sanitizing tasks in various facility areas (restrooms, kitchen and food areas, cafeterias).
• Performs physically demanding tasks requiring use of heavy custodial equipment (mopping, stripping, waxing, floor buffing).
• Responds to emergency situations to confine, resolve or prevent injurious or otherwise hazardous conditions (spills, broken windows, broken locks).
• Moves furniture and other equipment in the performance of duties.
• Cleans equipment and tools after use and maintains cleanliness and order in storage areas.
• Reports equipment malfunctions and facility maintenance needs to immediate supervisor.
• Performs routine maintenance on facility custodial equipment (changing vacuum cleaner belts and bags, changing buffer machine pads).
• Performs non-cleaning tasks in general facility maintenance (changing light bulbs, filling paper and soap dispensers, assisting in setting up for meetings/conferences).
• Functions independently, or as part of a custodial crew depending on the nature of the task (seasonal facility preparations, or other major custodial projects).
• Responsible for keeping up to date on current technology used by OCPS, attending training to ensure skill level meets current position requirements.
• Responsible for timely and accurate information they maintain as part of their job responsibilities.

• Performs related duties as directed.

High school diploma or GED preferred; supplemented by any previous experience demonstrating ability to safely and effectively operate standard facility custodial equipment, and ability to fulfill the physical requirements of the work; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

• Data Utilization – Requires the ability to arrange, compare, count, differentiate, measure and/or sort data and/or information. Includes judging whether readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics are similar to or divergent from prescribed standards, procedures or routines.
• Human Interaction – Requires the ability to exchange information for the purpose of obtaining information or clarifying details. Performs such within well-established policies, procedures and standards.
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization – Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of electrically powered custodial equipment, and hand‑held supplies and cleaning tools.
• Verbal Aptitude – Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and advisory data and information.
• Mathematical Aptitude – Requires the ability to perform addition and subtraction.
• Functional Reasoning – Requires ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form. Involves semi‑routine standardized work with some latitude for independent judgment concerning choices of action.
• Situational Reasoning – Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving a variety of generally pre‑defined duties which are often characterized by frequent change.

• Physical Ability – Tasks involve the ability to exert heavy physical effort in heavy work, with greater emphasis on climbing and balancing, but typically also involving some combination of stooping,…