Building Service Worker

About the Employer

Head Building Service Worker - Lemira Elementary

Job Summary

Sumter School District Position: Head Building Service Worker, Non-Exempt

Qualifications: 3 years experience as a school custodian or the equivalent in custodial service in other institutions and firms. Alternative qualifications may be considered by the Board.

Reports to: Principal

Supervises: Custodial Staff of the School

Job Goal: To maintain the safety, cleanliness, and upkeep of the physical school and grounds to provide an environment conducive to learning.

Job Duties

Helps in the selection, assignment, scheduling, and training of members of the custodial staff at the assigned school. Plans and oversees all maintenance and repair work, maintaining a high standard of safety, cleanliness, and efficiency. Monitors the time records and schedules of all custodial employees in the school and certifies them for salary payments. Maintains an inventory and recommends purchase or suitable supplies, tools, and equipment. Evaluates the performance of the custodial staff on a regular basis. Strives constantly to promote the safety, health, and comfort of students and employees. Keeps all boiler rooms and electrical rooms clear of rubbish and stored materials. Demonstrates all duties necessary as a custodian. Uses district checklist to maintain playground equipment in safe working condition.

Standards Required to Perform Essential Job Functions

Physical Requirements: Medium work involving walking, standing, stooping, crouching, crawling, climbing, stretching or lifting (20-50 pounds) and considerable skill, adeptness, and speed in tasks involving close tolerances or limits of accuracy.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge readily observable characteristics of data, people, or things.

Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information, including giving assignments and instructions to subordinates and receiving information and instructions from supervisor.

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read administrative, technical, and other documents and reports and prepare various types of reports and documents with proper format.

Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems to solve practical problems and deal with concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, explain procedures, follow and give verbal and written instructions, counsel and teach employees, and communicate effectively and efficiently in technical and professional languages.

Numeric Aptitude: Requires the ability to add and subtract totals, multiply and divide, determine percentages and decimals, and use practical applications of fractions, percentages, ratio, and proportion.

Form/ Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width, and shape.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes in using office and specialized equipment and operate motor vehicles.

Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle various items, office equipment, control knobs, switches, hand and power tools, measuring devices, etc., with significant levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate colors and shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions and be adaptable to performing under stress in emergency situations or tight deadlines.

Physical Communications: Requires the ability to talk and hear, including expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words and perceiving nature of sounds by ear.

Terms

240 days

Evaluation

Performance of this job will be evaluated by the Principal in accordance with provisions of Sumter School District Policy.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Sumter School District is an equal opportunity employer.