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Part-time General Services in Perryville
Position Summary
Perform a variety of tasks to maintain college facilities in an attractive and appropriate manner. Operate and monitor equipment. Assist with college facility needs.
Key Performance Indicators
- Maintain safe, clean facilities
- Monitor building mechanical systems, troubleshoot when needed
- Propose and implement continuous improvement ideas
Essential Functions
- Provide preventative maintenance on heating and cooling systems, fire systems, air handlers, pumps, etc.
- Replace light bulbs.
- Change filters.
- Perform additional duties necessary to ensure grounds are well maintained, and present a favorable physical appearance, including deep cleaning during college breaks between semesters.
- Perform general maintenance work which results from normal wear and tear of facilities (painting, plumbing, carpentry, electrical wiring, heating and cooling, and so on.)
- Monitor gauges, perform preventive maintenance of facilities.
- Assist when needed with room set up and install and removal of event decorations.
- Establish good rapport with staff and students.
- Mop, sweep, buff, strip, and wax floors. Vacuum carpeted floors.
- Empty trash found in classrooms and offices. Recycle appropriate waste materials.
- Dust all furniture, equipment, and furnishings in classrooms and offices.
- Remove kick marks, graffiti, and other foreign matter from floors, walls, ceilings, and furnishings.
- Clean all glass surfaces.
- Clean bathrooms and water fountains to maintain a healthy environment. Refill various dispensers. Clean any other areas containing kitchen facilities, sinks, and the like.
- Clean whiteboards and erasers.
- Shovel snow and spread ice melt on steps and sidewalks when needed.
- Perform additional duties necessary to ensure facilities are clean, and present a favorable physical appearance.
Required Behaviors, Competencies, and Skills
Ability to relate quickly and respectfully to a variety of people, including the general public and colleagues.
Interpersonal skills:
Ability to deal with standardized situations with occasional or no variables involving routine work.
Ability to communicate effectively in English.
Technical skills:
Ability to read English at the level necessary to understand written safety rules, simple directions, product labels, and work orders and to understand simple verbal and/or written instructions.
Ability to learn and implement given set procedures and techniques such as room cleaning methods.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out two (2) or three (3) sequential instructions.
Experience
Education:
High School Diploma or GED.
Work Experience:
At least one year full-time directly related work experience.
Industry Knowledge:
Knowledge of cleaning equipment operation.
Work Environment and Physical Requirements
Bend, reach, and stoop to operate equipment and handle tools and materials.
Lift up to fifty (50) pounds and carry or push carts with tools and equipment weighing seventy-five (75) pounds.
Perform activities requiring good balance such as climbing and maneuvering on stairs, ladders, and scaffolds frequently on uneven surfaces.
Maneuver on stairs and uneven or soft surfaces such as grassy, icy, or unpaved areas.
Perceive environmental alerting sounds such as alarms, equipment operating, paging, and telephones.
Respond to a scene quickly on foot.
Move from room to room, building to building, and worksite to worksite daily.
Stand and/or work on feet up to three (3) hours at a time.
Discriminate size, shape, temperature, color, and/or texture of objects and detect odors daily.
Discern visual depth relationships, both close and long range.
Mineral Area College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender identity, disability, age, religion, creed, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, genetic and family medical history as defined by GINA, or marital or parental status, in admission/access to, or treatment/employment in its programs and activities.
