Custodian Pay Plan: RW Grade: 03 Step/Wage: 1-10/$11.75 to $18.72/hour, commensurate with compensation history and relevant work experience. Location: Washington, DC
Our public school students need your expertise, passion and leadership. We are looking for highly motivated and skilled talent to join our team at District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS). We seek individuals who are passionate about transforming the DC school system and making a significant difference in the lives of public school students, parents, principals, teachers, and central office employees. DCPS serves 45,000 students in the nation’s capital through the efforts of approximately 4,000 educators in 123 schools. As part of a comprehensive reform effort to become the preeminent urban school system in America, DCPS intends to have the highest-performing, best paid, most satisfied, and most honored educator force in the nation and a distinctive central office staff whose work supports and drives instructional excellence and significant achievement gains for DCPS students.
Position Overview The Custodian performs a variety of general maintenance work and custodial tasks in a school in order to ensure that the school is maintained in a healthy, orderly, safe, and sanitary manner.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities The below statements are intended to describe the general nature and scope of work being performed by this position. This is not a complete listing of all responsibilities, duties, and/or skills required. Other duties may be assigned. General maintenance duties include the following: Plumbing Makes minor repairs on the portable water and sanitary systems, including small repairs on pipes and plumbing fixtures. Assists higher-level workers or supervisor with soldering, sweating, brazing, compression, and replacing screw-type fitting and plastic piping and tubing.
Electrical
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Makes minor repairs related to low voltage electrical system, machinery, and equipment. Assists higher-level workers or supervisor with replacing electrical switches, receptacles, ballasts, breakers, motors, pumps, starters, contractors, and other electrical equipment.
Painting Preps new surfaces for painting by ensuring the smoothness of the surfaces, utilizing primer when needed. Paints all types of interior and exterior surfaces with brushes, rollers, sprayers, etc. Under instruction of supervisor, who ensures that surfaces are level, receives specific instruction on choosing the best instrument or painting tool to use; selecting the proper type of interior and exterior paints to use in accordance with the intended purpose and color requirement; and removing old paint prior to repainting surfaces when necessary. Assists with glazing glass areas; and works with putty, filler materials, and paint lines on gymnasium floors when required.
Carpentry Assists or makes minor repairs to counters, floor tiles, stairs, castings, window frames, cabinet doors, shelves, and various other minimal carpentry repairs.
Tile Setting Work Lays various types of tile rubber, asphalt, or linoleum tile to cover floors. Removes old tile by scraping and chipping away hardened adhesive using chisels, hammers, and screwdrivers. Removes base board, molding, and embedded articles of stone and metals. Removes sub-flooring when found to be deteriorated by sanding, patching, and/or underlaying total coverage with minimum waste of the materials. Under instruction of supervisor, who provides the calculated amount of materials needed and/or instructs how to cut tile to fit irregular shaped areas, installs tile by matching the tile with existing tile. Uses sand, bricks, and cement when required.
General ground maintenance and custodial responsibilities include the following: Ground Maintenance Rakes and removes leaves, removes snow and ice (utilizing a shovel and/or snow blower), and uses ice melting agents to melt or remove ice from walkways, steps, driveways, etc.
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Custodian Work Collects and disposes of all accumulated trash (picks up trash, and empties trash cans and other trash receptacles) and bags trash for pick-up. Sweeps (classrooms, hallways, stairwells, multi-purpose rooms, cafeterias, etc.), mops, waxes, buffs, burnishes, sands, strips, and refinishes hard floors (including wood). Scrubs walls. Maintains the cleanliness of restrooms at all times; and reports leaks and non-working sinks, commodes, and urinals. Performs routine cleaning of classrooms and offices. Removes indelible ink and stains by using strong cleaning solutions or by spot painting where necessary. Shampoos and spot cleans carpets. Washes windows (performed approximately three or four times per year). Dusts lockers, desks, ledges, chairs, stair railings, etc. Performs daily checks and inspects the building and grounds for cleanliness, state of repair, work accomplishments, theft, and vandalism, and reports on findings. Frequently checks all areas for proper operations of vents, radiators, and thermostats for schools receiving heat and hot water from outside sources (may require removing trash and other debris from ducts, vents, and other heating, ventilation, and air conditioning equipment); and informs the supervisor of inadequate conditions of cooling, heating, and hot water equipment. Maintains the gymnasium by keeping it clean, which consists of sweeping, scrubbing, waxing, and buffing floors. Works with teachers and other faculty members in arranging furniture in offices and classrooms, etc.; and informs supervisor if there are requests for making arrangements to move large, heavy equipment from one location to another (may include laboratory and shop equipment, desks, tables, chairs, files, audiovisual materials, projectors, screens, televisions, speakers, film cases, books, supplies, stage set-ups, microphones, speakers for scheduled activities/events, and removal of milk containers from school that have milk programs). Performs or assists with converting all-purpose rooms when being used as cafeterias, play rooms, gymnasiums, auditoriums, etc.; and folds and stores tables.
Qualifications • • • •
High school diploma. 1-3 years work experience preferred. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite preferred. Abilities in the following areas required:
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Ability to learn standard plumbing methods and techniques, such as measures, cut, bend, and thread pipe and tile; caulk and seal things such as elbows, union joints, tile pipe, faucets, and shower drains; and remove, clean, reinstall, or replace joints and fixtures (in traps, faucets, and unions). Ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and work with simple fractions. Ability to learn how to utilize tools and equipment such as tapes, rules, hacksaws (hand and power), pipe threaders, cutters, packing and caulking irons, and pipe wrenches. Electrical Ability to perform minimal/limited electrical work. Ability to learn how to make repairs that can be accomplished by removing, replacing, tightening fixtures such as broken and bare wiring, burned out switches and relays, loose connections and fittings, and damaged lights fixtures. Ability to complete needed repairs to installed systems, such as outlets, switches, light fixtures, regulators, and circuit breakers. Painting Ability to learn how to prepare standard surfaces and coating methods and techniques, e.g., removing such things as rust, dirt, and old paint from surfaces so that coating materials will adhere properly. Ability to sand; use wire brush, scrapers, spackle, and putty surfaces; and brush out, roll on, and spray coating of materials. Ability to read and follow oral directions that explain, for example, how to apply and use prepared solvents and thin and stir coating materials, and use tools and equipment such as scrapers, wire brushes, putty knives, sandpaper, paintbrushes, rollers, and spray guns. Carpentry Ability to learn how to utilize woodworking techniques such as basic shop mathematics and measuring tapes, squares, levels, and other carpentry tools to lay out, measure, cut, construct, and install materials according to dimensional requirements and specifications. Ability to learn how to operate a variety of hand and power tools such as hammers, hand saws, drill planes, routers, screwdrivers, power nailers and fasteners, glues guns, metal shears, screw guns, power saws, and power sanders and planes. Tile Setting Ability to learn how to lay and remove various types of tiles. Ability to learn how to use chisels, hammers, and screwdrivers, and to recondition subflooring by sanding, patching, replacing, and/or under-laying total coverage of the flooring. Custodian Ability to perform all cleaning duties independently and without instruction.
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Knowledge of the proper uses of a variety of special cleaning and sanitizing solutions. Ability to clean and make adjustments to powered cleaning equipment. Ability to use ordinary cleaning tools such as brooms, mops, buffers, waxers, sanders, etc.
Physical Efforts The work involves a wide range of grounds and housekeeping and general maintenance functions for schools and facilities, which involves moving heavy equipment/furnishings, climbing ladders, bending, stooping, and standing for long periods. Good hand and eye coordination is required and the Incumbent must be physically fit to carry out assignments. Frequently, the Incumbent will be required to lift and move objects weighting up to 50 pounds and occasionally, with assistance of special equipment and/or other workers, up to 90 pounds when handling tiles, sand, brick, and cement.
Working Conditions Building and general maintenance work normally is performed indoors and grounds maintenance is performed outside during all four seasons in all types of weather. Based on the assignment, the Incumbent is confronted with a variety of conditions such as extreme heat and cold. Also, the Incumbent is subject to receive abrasions, cuts, splinters, bruises, strains, and burns, to fall off ladders, and/or to inhale fumes when exposed to strong cleaning chemicals.
Personal Qualities of Top Candidates • Commitment to Equity: Passionate about closing the achievement gap and ensuring that every child, regardless of background or circumstance, receives an excellent education. • Leadership: Coaches, mentors, and challenges others to excel despite obstacles and challenging situations. • Focus on Data-Driven Results: Relentlessly pursues the improvement of central office performance and school leadership, instruction, and operations, and is driven by a desire to produce quantifiable student achievement gains. • Innovative Problem-Solving: Approaches work with a sense of possibility and sees challenges as opportunities for creative problem solving; takes initiative to explore issues and find potential innovative solutions. • Adaptability: Excels in constantly changing environments and adapts flexibly in shifting projects or priorities to meet the needs of a dynamic transformation effort; comfortable with ambiguity and nonroutine situations.
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• Teamwork: Increases the effectiveness of surrounding teams through collaboration, constant learning and supporting others; sensitive to diversity in all its forms; respects and is committed to learning from others • Dependability: Does whatever it takes to consistently deliver with high quality under tight deadlines; successfully manages own projects through strong organization, detailed workplans, and balancing of multiple priorities. • Communication and Customer Service Skills: Communicates clearly and compellingly with diverse stakeholders in both oral and written forms; anticipates and responds to customer needs in a highquality and courteous manner.
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Notice of Non-Discrimination In accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the D.C. Human Rights Act of 1977, as amended, District of Columbia Official Code Section 2-1401.01 et seq. (Act), the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) does not discriminate (including employment therein and admission thereto) on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family status, family responsibilities, matriculation, political affiliation, genetic information, disability, source of income, status as a victim of an interfamily offense, or place of residence or business. Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination, which is prohibited by the Act. In addition, harassment based on any of the above-protected categories is prohibited. Discrimination in violation of the aforementioned laws will not be tolerated. Violators will be subject to disciplinary action. Inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies of DCPS will be handled as follows: Employees with inquiries regarding non-discrimination policies related to employment and employees should contact: Equal Employment Opportunity Specialist Office of Labor Management & Employee Relations District of Columbia Public Schools 1200 First St, NE, 10th Floor Washington, DC 20002 (202) 442-5424 Students, parents and/or guardians with inquiries regarding non-discrimination policies related to students and student activities, including Section 504, should contact: Director of Targeted Student Support Office of Youth Engagement District of Columbia Public Schools 1200 First St, NE, 10th Floor Washington, DC 20002 (202) 442-5099 Students, parents and/or guardians with inquiries regarding Title IX non-discrimination policies related to students and student activities shall contact:
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Title IX Coordinator Office of Youth Engagement District of Columbia Public Schools 1200 First St, NE, 8th Floor Washington, DC 20002 Washington, DC 20002 (202) 442-5099
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