Position Overview: Custodian

Location: Los Angeles, CA
Reports to: School Operations Manager 
Direct Reports: None
Category: Classified
Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA) Status: Exempt
Pay Cycle: 12 months
Salary Range: Starting at $20.00 per hour, commensurate with experience
Benefits: Full-time employees of ICEF Public Schools are entitled to Medical, Life Insurance, Dental and Vision plans, and various retirement programs offered by ICEF Public Schools.

ICEF Public Schools is a nonprofit charter school network committed to educating and empowering courageous leaders who embrace their full potential for college, career, and life. Our work is rooted in five mission-aligned pillars:

• Educating and Empowering Courageous Leaders
• Providing a Diverse Community that Honors Each Student’s Uniqueness
• Fostering Academic Excellence
• Nurturing Healthy Minds
• Inspiring Critical Thinkers

To learn more, visit www.icefps.org

Job Description

Position Summary

The Custodian plays an essential role in maintaining the building and physical plant, and supporting a learning environment that promotes health, attitude and pride of students. In addition to regular building maintenance functions, the school custodian provides direct support to classroom teachers in set up and maintenance of furniture and equipment. The school custodian also serves as a role model for students by displaying a professional, courteous, and helpful nature. Assists in campus security as necessary. This is an on-site position based at a school site; remote work is not available for this role.

Essential Functions

Building Maintenance

• Sweep, mop, vacuum, scrub, and refinish floors; clean, dust and polish furniture; wash windows and walls; clean restrooms; dispose of rubbish, change lights, etc.; make certain all areas of the building are kept in a clean, sanitary and orderly condition according to industry and/or district standards.
• Pick up litter within the schools and on school grounds.
• Performs minor repair and maintenance as authorized by supervisor.
• Removes extraneous dirt/markings from interior and exterior vertical/horizontal surfaces (walls, doors, etc.).
• Performs minor painting to walls, rails, playgrounds and other areas of the school.
• Advise building Principal/School Operations Manager on matters relating to mechanical equipment and/or building maintenance.

Safety and Compliance

• Assure safety during inclement weather to include providing slip protection on wet floors, securing against wind damage, and remove debris from downspouts when clogged, etc.
• Applies cleaning chemicals according to established safety procedures.
• Adheres to safety measures for cleaning, lifting, moving, and operating equipment.
• Secures school building to ensure proper building security at all times. Lock, secure and code out buildings at the end of shift.
• Initiate maintenance service requests according to organization procedures.
• Follows-through to assure that maintenance is performed in a timely manner.
• Periodically inspects, or otherwise maintains awareness of, facility and equipment to detect and prevent injuries or damage.

Equipment & Supply Management

• Keeps all equipment in a good state of repair and cleanliness.
• Maintains inventory and requests cleaning supplies and materials needed to accomplish assigned tasks.
• Maintains awareness of energy conservation and makes suggestions of methods and procedures to consider energy.
• Secures equipment and supplies and protects against pilferage, loss, theft, or abuse.

Emergency Planning

• Verifies that emergency equipment is maintained and repaired as need be. 
• Assists in implementing emergency planning and response.

Additional Duties

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• An earned High School Diploma or equivalent 
• Must be trained in First Aid. CPR and defibrillator training may be required. 
• Excellence in time management, taking initiative, and follow-through.
• Ability to communicate and maintain good working relations with all District employees, vendors, contractors, and public entities. 
• Ability to work effectively in an environment with frequent interruptions requiring the ability to concentrate and consistently produce accurate work while responding to interruptions and changing priorities. 
• Initiative and ability to work with minimal direction; sound judgment and decision making capabilities are essential.
• Must have successful experience in working with culturally diverse families and communities, or have otherwise demonstrated a commitment to strengthening engagement of a diverse community and skill in communicating with a diverse population.  
• Tuberculosis (TB) clearance
• Background check clearance
• Commitment to educational equity and ICEF’s mission

Preferred Qualifications

• Completed an apprenticeship or the equivalent within the specific trade/craft area. 

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; frequently required to talk or hear; and occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms, and/or use hands to finger, handle, or feel. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to move and/or lift up to twenty-five (25) pounds. 

Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
 

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

ICEF is an Equal Opportunity Employer

ICEF Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, association with a member of a protected class, bereavement leave, color, disability (physical, intellectual/developmental, or mental health/psychiatric.), exercising the right to family care and medical leave related to serious health condition of employee or family member, child bonding, or military exigencies, engaging in protected activity, gender identity or expression, genetic information or characteristic, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristic), military and veteran status, national origin (includes language restrictions), pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions, Pregnancy Disability Leave (PDL), race (includes hairstyle and hair texture, religious creed (includes dress and grooming practices), reproductive health decision making, sex/gender, and sexual orientation.