Maintenance Custodian (2nd Shift)

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Job Title: Building Custodian - Floater - 2nd Shift - Job Description: Report to: Head Building Custodian/Facilities Director - Job Mission: To provide students with a safe, attractive, comfortable, and efficient place in which to learn, play and develop. - Performance Responsibilities: - Terms of Employment: Full year position Salary range: In accordance with the current agreement between the Longmeadow Education Association (Unit H) and the Longmeadow School Committee. - Physical Demands: Physical demands are a way of describing the physical activities that a job requires. + Occasionally (o) Up to 1/3 of the time + Frequently (f) From 1/3 to 2/3 of the time + Constantly (c) 2/3 of the time or more - Work Environment: Environmental conditions are a means of describing the physical surroundings of a worker in a specific job. This position is performed in a school setting where the environmental conditions should have no effect on how the job is performed.
• Keep building and premises, including sidewalks, driveways, and play areas meat and clean at all times.
• Regulates heat, ventilation, and air conditioning systems to provide temperatures appropriate to the season and to insure economical usage of fuel, water and electricity.
• Shovels, operates snow blower and/or sands walks, driveways, parking areas and steps as appropriate.
• Checks daily to insure all exit doors are open and all panic bolts are working properly during hours of building occupancy.
• Sweeps classrooms daily, and dusts furniture.
• Cleans corridors each day.
• Scrubs and disinfects toilet floors, sanitary fixtures, and drinking fountains daily.
• Washes windows inside and out, as needed.
• Keeps grounds free of rubbish.
• Performs such yard-keeping chores as mowing, shrub trimming and the like as necessary to maintain the school grounds.
• Makes minor building and equipment repairs as he/she is capable of.
• Remains on the premises during school hours and during non-school hours when the use of the building has been authorized and his/her attendance is required by the principal.
• Reports immediately to the head custodian, how reports to the principal, any damage to school property.
• Assumes responsibility for the opening and/or closing of the building and determining that all doors and windows are secured and that all non-essential lights and mechanical equipment are turned off.
• Moves furniture and equipment within the building for various activities as directed by the principal.
• Complies with local laws for the storage and disposal of trash.
• Use equipment, tools, and materials normally associated with custodian work.
• Must be willing to work overtime in emergency situations and to cover special events.
• Such other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned.
• Strength: Light-heavy lifting, 60 pounds maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 30 pounds.
• Standing: (c)
• Sitting: (o)
• Walking: (c)
• Lifting: (f)
• Reaching: (c) � Extending the hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction
• Handling: (c) � Seizing, holding, grasping, turning or otherwise work with hand(s)
• Fingering: (f) � Picking, pinching, or otherwise working with fingers primarily
• Talking: (f) Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word
• Hearing: (c) Perceiving the nature of sounds by the air
• Near Acuity: (c) Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less
• Far Acuity: (c) Clarity of vision at 20 feet or more
• Color Vision: (f) Ability to identify and distinguish colors
• Field of Vision: (c) Observing an area that can be seen up and down or right and left when eyes are fixed on a given point.
• Noise: Level 3 � Moderate level of intensity.