"Custodian"

Job Description

Brandeis University is looking for a Custodian in the Facilities Administration.

ESSENTIAL & OTHER JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Clean, strip, polish building surfaces as directed.
• Read, understand and carry out simple instructions in English.
• Establish and maintain a positive working relationship with supervisors, fellow workers, department heads and other members of the campus community.
• Follow simple oral instructions in English.
• Work in an environment subject to frequently changing priorities and from individuals and time deadlines.
• Bend, stoop, lift and move furniture, shovel snow and remove trash weighing 30 pounds.
• Work either independently or in a project team setting.
• Organize responsibilities and tasks.
• Receive and ship packages, luggage and supplies.
• Set up rooms for conferences, lectures, and special events.
• Respond to and clean up after emergencies and disasters.
• Assist in the security and protection of facilities to include locking and unlocking exterior and interior doors.

*This list is representative of those duties and responsibilities that are required of this position. However, the list is not to be considered as all inclusive.

Shift:

Mon-Fri (Sat/Sun Off) 7:00am-3:00pm

Job Qualifications and Requirements:

• Ability to clean, strip, polish building surfaces as directed.
• Ability to read and understand simple instructions in English.
• Ability to follow simple oral instructions in English.
• Ability to establish and maintain a positive working relationship with supervisors, fellow workers, department heads and other members of the campus community.
• Ability to work effectively in an environment subject to frequently changing priorities and periodic stress from individuals and time deadline.
• Ability to bend, stoop, lift and move furniture, shovel snow and remove trash weighing 30 pounds.
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently either independently or in a project team setting.
• Ability to organize responsibilities and tasks weekly in order to perform them efficiently and effectively.
• Ability to respond to and clean up after emergencies and disasters.
• Ability to perform other related tasks as required.

JOB LOCATION:

Inside campus buildings and outside perimeter of buildings.

EQUIPMENT:

Floor buffers, vacuums of all types, wet/vacuums, automatic walk-behind and riding floor scrubbers, pressure washers, 44 gallon trash containers, snow shovels, ice chippers, brooms, mops, pails with ringers, chemicals including but not limited to: ammonia, bleach, germicide/disinfectant, floor stripper, wax, ice melt, and metal polish.