Cleaners perform a variety of routine manual tasks that require light to heavy physical effort. Responsibilities include cleaning and maintaining assigned areas within residence halls, academic buildings, and the surrounding campus grounds and sidewalks.

Major Responsibilities

General Cleaning

• Use mops, brushes, detergents, buffers, floor scrubbers, and other cleaning implements to wash, wax, vacuum, and shampoo carpets, floors, corridors, stairs and stairwells, walls, partitions, windows from the inside of buildings, etc.
• Collect trash and recyclables from offices, centralized trash locations, designated trash rooms and dormitories, and transport to the exterior dumpster.
• Use hand-dusting equipment to dust assigned areas.
• Use hand-operated equipment and detergents to scrub and clean all areas of lavatories, such as sinks, showers, urinals, toilets, etc.
• Use designated equipment to polish wood and metal fixtures and equipment.
• Assist with cleaning for absent employees as directed or assigned.

Furniture Coordination and Event Support

• Move furniture and equipment in connection with cleaning and care functions.
• Move furniture within the building for office moves.
• Set up furniture and equipment in assigned areas, such as athletic fields, gymnasiums, and conference or meeting rooms, as needed.

Lighting and High Areas

• Use appropriate equipment such as ladders and aerial lifts to clean light fixtures and replace light bulbs in high places.

Maintenance and Grounds

• Remove snow and salt sidewalks or stairs adjacent to the assigned building entrance.
• Use manual and/or mechanical equipment to occasionally clean sidewalks, yards, and driveways.

Safety and Hazard Removal

• For all assigned tasks, pick up and remove any hazardous items from floors and furniture, and place them in designated receptacles or appropriate locations.
• Notify supervisor of any safety hazard that cannot be mitigated on site.