COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS PARKS AND RECREATION SERVICE AREA POSITION DESCRIPTION

(NON-EXEMPT)

Position Title: Custodian – Full Time

Position Characteristics: Non-seasonal, full-time, fully benefitted position. Utah Retirement Systems, Company sponsored Health/Dental/Life Insurance, 11 paid holidays, 1 paid personal day, 80 hours vacation accrual annually & 104 hours sick accrual annually. FREE Ultimate Family Membership to the facility, additional discounts on facility-run programs, discounted on-site daycare, flexible schedule including weekdays, evenings, late nights, Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.

Department: Visual Maintenance

Reporting Relationships:

Position Reports To: Custodial Supervisor

Positions Directly Supervised: Custodial Site Supervisor, Part-Time Custodians, Janitor Helpers

Position Purpose:

Responsible for supervising and performing the cleaning and maintenance of building facilities, equipment, fixtures, and furnishings. Oversee and perform routine maintenance including vacuuming, sweeping, mopping of floors, dusting, washing walls, doors, window, and emptying trash. Maintain pool and exercise areas, ice rink, racquetball courts, and facility grounds. Perform minor preventative maintenance and minor repairs. Report major maintenance and repair needs. Assist service personnel as needed.

Nature and Scope:

This position requires knowledge of basic cleaning techniques, good organizational skills, and attention to detail. Excellent public relations skills, the ability to direct others, and patience are also vital to the successful execution of this position. Failure to properly clean and maintain the facilities can result in an unfavorable public impression of the Recreation Service Area and potential sanitary problems.

Essential Functions and Basic Duties:

Assume responsibility for overseeing and performing assigned cleaning and maintenance functions.

Ensure that floors are appropriately vacuumed, swept, and mopped. Shampoo and spot clean carpet. Remove gum.
Ensure that walls, tables, doors, light fixtures, vending machines, mirrors, and windows are cleaned and dusted.
Ensure that toilets, urinals, showers, tile floors, and other fixtures are cleaned and disinfected. Ensure that the whirlpool and sauna are properly maintained.
Ensure that soap, toilet paper, and towel dispensers are filled regularly as needed.
Ensure that trash containers are emptied as needed and waste receptacles are clean.
Ensure that outside areas are clean, well-maintained and that all litter is collected. Clean sidewalks of snow and debris as needed.
Ensure that all exercise equipment and areas including the pool, ice rink, racquetball courts, weight and aerobics rooms, etc. are properly cleaned and maintained.
Performs minor preventative maintenance and repairs (including minor plumbing repairs) as needed.
Set up room/areas for meetings, etc.

Assume responsibility for establishing and maintaining effective communication, coordination, and working relationships with Service Area personnel, management, vendors, and service providers.

Assist Recreation Service Area personnel and outside service providers as needed.
Keep management informed of area activities, any significant problems, and maintenance concerns.
Attend and participate in meetings as required. Complete required paperwork.

Assume responsibility for maintaining courteous, effective relations with patrons and members of the public. Assume responsibility for other duties as assigned.

Perform miscellaneous cleaning and maintenance functions and the Janitor’s duties as needed.
Perform routine security functions, such as locking and unlocking facilities.
Oversee visual maintenance functions in the absence of the Parks and Operations Manager and the Visual Maintenance Manager.

Performance Measurements:

Building facilities, equipment, and grounds are clean, sanitary, neat, secure, and well-maintained.
Cleaning and maintenance functions are safely and timely completed in accordance with established standards and procedures.
Maintenance needs and problems are promptly identified and resolved or reported. Appropriate levels of janitorial supplies are maintained.
Maintenance functions are well-coordinated with other Service Area functions. Assistance is provided to other personnel as needed.
Management is appropriately informed of area activities and needs.
Effective and courteous relations exist with Service Area patrons, visitors, vendors, and members of the public.
Custodians are effectively supervised and directed.

Qualifications:

Training/Education/Certification:

High School Diploma or equivalent
Valid driver’s license and a copy of their Motor Vehicle Record to be provided prior to employment.
Approved Criminal Background Investigation check if over 18 years of age.

Required Knowledge:

Knowledge of basic cleaning materials, techniques and maintenance procedures.
Basic understanding of plumbing procedures.

Experience Required:

At least one year’s related cleaning/custodial experience.

Skills/Abilities:

Attention to detail.
Able to follow directions and work well independently.
Ability to work weekends, evenings, and late nights.
Able to use basic cleaning chemicals and tools (including vacuums, carpet scrubbers, mops, brooms, snow blowers, small power tools, etc.)
Ability to work well with other staff.

Physical Activities and Requirements of this Position:

Stooping: Bending downward and forward at the waist. Requires full use of lower extremities and back muscles.

Kneeling: Resting on knee or knees.

Crouching: Bending downward and forward at the leg and spine.

Crawling: Moving on hands and knees or hands and feet.

Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Standing: For extended time periods.

Walking: Especially for short distances.

Lifting: Occurs frequently and requires substantial use of upper body and back muscles.

Grasping: Using fingers and palm on an object

Talking: Especially when one must frequently convey detailed or important instructions or ideas accurately, loudly, or quickly.

Hearing: Able to hear average or normal conversations and receive ordinary information.

Seeing: Average, ordinary, vision acuity necessary to prepare or inspect documents or products, or operate machinery.

Physical Strength: Medium work, exerts up to 50 lbs. occasionally and/or up to 20 lbs. frequently, and 10 lbs. constantly.

Working Conditions:

Work both inside and outside, subject to weather.

Mental Activities and Requirements of this Position:

General Education-Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed, involved instructions and to deal with problems involving several concrete variables.

General Education-Mathematics Ability: Ability to perform very basic math skills including adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing two digit numbers; to perform the four basic arithmetic operations with coins as part of a dollar; to perform operations with units such as inch, foot, and yard; ounce and pound (or their metric counterparts).

General Education-Language Ability: Ability to use a passive vocabulary of 5-6,000 words; to read (by sight or Braille) at a slow rate; define unfamiliar words in dictionaries for meaning, spelling, and pronunciation. Ability to write (to inscribe by whatever means) compound and complex sentences, proper end punctuation, and employ adjectives and adverbs. Ability to communicate in complex sentences; using normal work order with present and past tenses; using a good vocabulary.

Intent and Function of Job Descriptions:

Job descriptions assist organizations in ensuring that the hiring process is fairly administered and that qualified employees are selected. They are also essential to an effective appraisal system and related promotion, transfer, layoff, and terminations decisions. Well-constructed job descriptions are an integral part of any effective compensation system.

All descriptions have been reviewed to ensure that only essential functions and basic duties have been included. Peripheral tasks, only incidentally related to each position, have been excluded. Requirements, skills, and abilities included have been determines to be the minimal standards required to successfully perform the positions. In no instance, however, should the duties, responsibilities, and requirements delineated be interpreted as all inclusive. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is possible that requirements may be modified to reasonably accommodate disabled individuals. However, no accommodations will be made which may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or others or which impose undue hardships on the organization.

Job descriptions are not intended to and do not create employment contracts. The organization maintains its status as an at-will employer. Employees can be terminated for any reason no prohibited by law.

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