Africatown Community Land Trust is hiring: Custodian in Seattle

Overview

Custodian

Africatown Community Land Trust (ACLT) seeks a highly organized and flexible cleaning professional that takes pride in positively contributing to the maintenance and upkeep of a safe and healthy work and living environment. The successful candidate will have experience in best cleaning safety practices for disinfecting, sanitizing, and operating heavy duty janitorial equipment for high-volume traffic areas accessed by the community members, community guests (residents), and employees. This is a full-time position reporting to the facilities and maintenance manager. This position works primarily at the Benu Community Home and may need to travel to other off-site facilities.

ACLT\'s Benu Community Home is open seven days a week, including evenings and weekends. The Benu Community Home provides transitional housing to Black Men that may suffer from mental illness, substance disorder, co-occurring disorders, or other trauma related issues. The custodian role is important to help us provide a safe and clean environment for community guests. This position will collaborate with the Facilities and Maintenance Manager and Operations Manager to ensure the facility is clean and sanitized daily and ensure building areas are properly maintained. This position may be exposed to biohazardous materials such as blood, feces, vomit, urine, etc. The position performs a variety of light and heavy cleaning activities including scrubbing, stripping, waxing and buffing floors, cleaning and resupplying restrooms, vacuuming and shampooing rugs and carpets, dusting and polishing furniture, and cleaning glass surfaces. Incumbents collect and remove trash from the building. Other responsibilities include maintaining and sanitizing cleaning equipment and laundering cleaning towels. The position is responsible for securing fire doors. Custodians may move furniture, set up meeting rooms, and perform other duties as assigned. Most custodians routinely work on night shift.

Typical duties include :

• Empty waste and recycle (replace can liners as needed or per safety guidelines)
• Managing cleaning supply inventory and request replacements to avoid shortages
• Police the outside the facility to remove trash
• Provide assistance with meeting room set-up
• Clean and wipe reception area, elevator, foyer, stairwells, kitchen and food prep area, vacant guests\' rooms, offices and conference rooms, etc.
• General dusting and spot cleaning of doors, windows, floors, and carpeted areas
• Clean exterior of microwaves in the kitchen and guest area
• Other duties as assigned
• Restock all paper products (toilet tissue, paper towels, seat covers)
• Empty waste receptacles
• Clean, sanitize, and disinfect sinks, toilets, and mirror
• Dustmop and wet mop floors
• Monthly topcoat scrub floors
• Clean, sanitize, and disinfect hard surfaces, sinks, and appliance exterior (stove, microwave, refrigerator, etc.)
• Dustmop and wet mop hard floor surfaces
• Monthly top scrub hard floor surfaces
• Replace paper products, soap dispenser, and sanitizer
• Daily dust mopping and wet mopping all hard floor surfaces
• Vacuum all high traffic areas daily
• Vacuum all offices and high-traffic areas three times per week
• Dust high surface areas monthly
• Dust, clean and sanitize counters and low surface areas daily
• Deep clean carpets annually
• Stripping, waxing, and sealing hard floor surfaces bi-annually
• Windows interior and first floor interior monthly or as needed
• Assist with pest control
• Perform other related tasks as assigned

Qualifications

• Minimum: 3 years of janitorial or cleaning experience in an office environment or public facility
• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent technical experience
• Positive attitude and customer service experience
• Basic computer skills to read, write, or respond to emails
• Excellent follow through and organization skills for cleaning requests
• Ability to work effectively with a team or independently to accomplish tasks
• Knowledge of hazardous cleaning chemicals and how to use properly
• Knowledge of cleaning and disposal of biohazardous waste materials and bloodborne pathogens
• Knowledge of OSHA cleaning guidelines including COVID cleaning standards
• Physical ability to perform the job: Long periods of standing, walking, stooping and lifting up to 50 lbs using proper lifting techniques, as needed

Desired

• Three years or more commercial janitorial experience (office or public facility)
• COVID Officer certification

Benefits

• Full medical, dental, and vision paid
• Generous vacation and sick leave
• Paid holidays
• Opportunity to positively contribute to the community