MILLER R-2 SCHOOL DISTRICT

JOB DESCRIPTION

 

Job Title:                         Custodian

 

Responsible to:               Director of Maintenance

                                        Building Administration

                                        Superintendent

                                        

                                        

 

Qualifications:

 

• Must be clean, neat and professional.
• Must possess the initiative to work steadily and effectively without immediate supervision.
• Must be able to lift at least 75 pounds. Minimum physical requirements include lifting, standing, sitting, squatting, walking, working while lying on back or side, in close quarters, underground, or high elevations.

 

General Responsibilities:

 

• To maintain school facilities that are clean, attractive, and safe for all who enter.
• To provide students with a comfortable, healthy, and efficient place in which to learn, play, and develop.

 

Specific Duties:

 

The duties of custodian include, but are not necessarily limited to:

• Set up tables, chairs, and other articles for lunch periods, meetings, games, or other events.
• Replace light bulbs and fluorescent tubes as needed each day.
• Know the location and proper use of all fire and other safety equipment.
• Clean all tools and equipment after their use and store in their proper location.
• Receive deliveries and store items in designated areas.
• Keep building and premises, including sidewalks, driveways, and play areas neat and clean at all times.
• Regulate heat, ventilation, and air conditioning systems to provide temperatures appropriate to the season and to ensure economical usage of fuel, water, and electricity.
• Shovel, plow, and sand walks, driveways, parking areas, and steps, as appropriate.
• Check daily to ensure that all exit doors are open and all panic bolts are working properly during the hours of building occupancy.
• General cleaning of hallways, bathrooms, classrooms, gymnsaiums, windows, and school grounds, etc.
• Clean corridors after school each day, and during the day when their condition requires it.
• General maintenance in the areas of plumbing, electrical, carpentry, flooring, etc.
• Make minor building repairs as requested.
• Remain on the school premises during school hours, and during non-school hours when the use of the building has been authorized and attendance is required by the principal.
• Conduct periodic inspections and test of all electrical installations in the school to ensure their safe condition.
• Assist or fill in temporarily on other jobs assigned by the director of maintenance.
• Scrub, strip and wax floors as needed.
• Paint (including touch-up)
• Replace ceiling tile and floor tile as needed.
• Keep up-to-date inspections on boilers, playground equipment, fire extinguishers, and emergency lighting.
• Assist in all summer maintenance and cleaning requests.
• Assist in mowing and trimming of grounds
• Any other duties as directed by those in authority.
• Comply with all local school board, city, state and federal laws, regulations, and policies.
• Comply with any reasonable oral or written directive by the director of maintenance, building administration, and superintendent.