Position Pays: $18 an hour

Schedule: Monday-Friday | 8:30am-4pm

Keep buildings in clean and orderly condition. Perform heavy cleaning duties, including mopping and waxing floors, dusting, deep cleaning all bathrooms, and removing trash.

General Responsibilities:

• Clean building floors by sweeping, mopping, scrubbing, buffing, and vacuuming. This includes the use and care of floor cleaning machines and buffers.

• Gather, empty, and discard trash.

• Service, clean, and supply restrooms.

• Clean and polish furniture and fixtures.

• Clean windows, glass partitions, and mirrors, using soapy water or other cleaners, sponges, and squeegees.

• Dust furniture, walls, machines, and equipment.

• Mix water and detergents or acids in containers to prepare cleaning solutions, according to specifications.

• Steam-clean or shampoo carpets.

• Strip, seal, finish, and polish floors.

• Clean laboratory equipment, such as glassware and metal instruments, using solvents, brushes, rags, and power cleaning equipment.

• Follow procedures for the use of chemical cleaners and power equipment to prevent damage to floors and fixtures.

• Move heavy furniture, equipment, and supplies.

• Notify managers concerning the need for major repairs or additions to building operating systems.

• Spray insecticides and fumigants to prevent insect and rodent infestation.

• Weekly landscaping duties as needed

Skills and Qualifications:

• Ability to be a self-starter with little or no supervision.

• Ability to push/pull wagons, carts, buggies, dollies loaded with cargo

• Unrestricted ability to repetitiously bend, stoop, squat, stand, walk, climb, twist, turn, and reach out.

• Ability to repetitiously bend [stoop and/or squat] to lift items weighing an average of 50 lbs. each to load/unload wagons, carts, buggies, or dollies.

• Ability to stand on a concrete floor approximately 80 percent of the shift.

• Ability to read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with co-workers and employees, and to read receipts and reports.

• Ability to sign and record numbers by hand and to make entries on records and prepare reports.

• Ability to count, add, subtract, and balance columns of numbers.

• Ability to perform light electrical, plumbing, and carpentry is a plus.