Head Custodian Job Description
Head Custodian Duties & Responsibilities
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Head Custodian Qualifications
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Education for Head Custodian
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the head custodian job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as High School and Master's Degree in General Education, Performance, Education, Government, Law, Finance, Associates, Sciences
Skills for Head Custodian
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Head Custodian Examples
Head Custodian Job Description
- Supervise, motivate, and evaluate custodial personnel assigned to the school/department
- Supervise the custodial personnel assigned to the school
- Responsible for the general care and upkeep of the building(s), grounds, and equipment
- Clean and disinfect bodily fluids according to district standards
- Clean facilities (i.e., hallways, cafeteria, kitchen, and school rooms)
- Prepare chemicals for work application
- Dispose of trash or waste materials
- Handle and move equipment and/or supplies
- Assist administration in establishing and implementing facility cleaning schedules
- Submit work requests and requisitions
- Must have working knowledge of custodial duties
- Ability to supervise people in custodial duties
- Must have a knowledge of janitorial supplies that have to be used in their work
- Must have some basic mechanical ability
- Written and verbal procedural skills
- Some previous custodial experience
Head Custodian Job Description
- Willing and able to learn appropriate procedures and carry them out to ensure proper temperature and lighting conditions
- Maintain adequate inventory of supplies and equipment
- Maintain accurate documentation for equipment
- Maintain proper climate control
- Operate and inspect HVAC equipment
- Operate energy management systems and equipment
- Inspect the facility and adjacent grounds for security, vandalism, and safety hazards
- Inspect the quality of supplies and equipment
- Assist in auditing work to ensure standards are met
- Provide assistance for various activities, school functions, and/or community events
- Of the job and other information important to the job
- Education – minimum high school graduate with continuing education construction or facilities related
- Experience – A minimum of 1 years of janitorial trade experience
- Special Qualifications –Must possess the above knowledge, skills, and abilities (Skills and Knowledge)
- High school diploma or GED equivalent (recognized by the Texas Education Agency or regional accrediting agency)
- Ability to measure and accurately use measuring devices
Head Custodian Job Description
- Maintain equipment inventory and preventative maintenance records for assigned equipment
- Care for grounds
- Clean snow and debris from sidewalk and grounds
- Mow lawn and fields
- Cultivate, plant, irrigate, and trim vegetation
- Membership in the Virginia Retirement System
- Tuition Reimbursement (first come first serve basis)
- Leadership Development Training
- Comprehensive Benefits Plan
- Maintains complete an correct work records and preserves confidentiality with personnel matters
- City of Omaha Third Grade Stationary Plant Operator's License, required
- State of Nebraska Swimming Pool License may be required if the school has a swimming pool
- Minimum of 3 -5 years’ satisfactory experience in custodial field is required
- Demonstrated organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills required to achieve the goals of the position
- Communicate (written and verbal) at a superior level and be trustworthy with confidential information
- Interact with staff and students in a courteous manner
Head Custodian Job Description
- Operates HVAC equipment for environmental comfort according to established guidelines and directives, and performs all operator inspections and maintains operator log sheets
- Assists in inspection of the facility and adjacent grounds for security, vandalism, safety hazards, and housekeeping and makes reports to the appropriate personnel
- Establishes the facility cleaning schedules and performs housekeeping cleaning using approved housekeeping methods and acceptable standards
- Monitors inventory of supplies and equipment in facility and ensure they are used according to manufacturer’s directions
- Under the direction of the building administrator, assist in coaching and counseling with the housekeeping supervisors and serve as the lead in assigning custodial staff assigned to the facility in maintaining housekeeping of the facility and adjacent grounds
- Develop and maintain courteous customer service with students, administrators, and staff including prompt attention to issues and concerns
- Assist customers around you and utilize coworkers to find answers to their questions
- Keep the store in pristine condition, and identify and communicate potential dangers to management
- Supervises custodians assigned to the facility in maintaining housekeeping of the facility and adjacent grounds
- Coordinates coaching, counseling and discipline with housekeeping supervisors including repeated absences, late arrivals / early departures, unprofessional behavior
- Submit and review work orders
- Under the direction of the building administrator, coordinate tasks among custodial staff
- Maintain a satisfactory attendance record
- Valid City of Omaha Third Grade Stationary Plant Operator’s License, required
- Some locations will require a State of Nebraska Swimming Pool License
- Must have above average communication and inter-personal skills, high level of self motivation and superior organization skills
Head Custodian Job Description
- Normal duty hours may vary according to the needs of the school district
- Supervise, motivate, and evaluate assigned custodial personnel
- Overall management of the day to day Depotbank Services function in Switzerland in accordance with Depositary best practice
- Assist with the setup of facilities for meetings, classrooms, conferences, assemblies, events
- Strip, clean, buff and apply floor sealer and floor finish to hard surface floors, vacuum and shampoo carpets
- Wash walls and equipment
- Lock and unlock assigned buildings
- Follow the instructions regarding the use of chemicals and supplies
- Wash accessible interior and exterior windows
- Attend to emergencies when necessary
- Must communicate (written and verbal) at a superior level and be trustworthy with confidential information
- Must have predictable and above average attendance
- Must have the ability to review work orders
- Under the direction of the building administrator, demonstrate the ability to assign tasks to employees and verify the quality of work performed
- The employee is regularly required to climb, kneel, stoop, walk and engage in heavy physical activities including exerting force equal to lifting a minimum of fifty (50) pounds in performance of job-related tasks
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to demonstrate skilled and accurate physical actions involving rapid movements and coordinated performance, on or with equipment with a high degree of manual dexterity in the use of hand instruments or tools