Custodian

Salary\: $35,386 - $53,066

Position Grade\: 202G

Department\: Multiple Departments

Job Type\: Full-Time

Examination Number\: EX1486

Location\: St. Louis, MO

Incumbents in this position are responsible for performing a variety of routine building cleaning and custodial duties.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities\:

● Keeps buildings and property in clean and orderly condition.

● Performs routine maintenance activities.

● Performs heavy cleaning duties.

● Sweeps, mops, scrubs, or vacuum floors.

● Gathers and empties trash.

● Scrubs, sanitizes, and supplies restroom facilities.

● Dusts furniture, walls, and equipment.

● Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities\:

● Data Utilization\: Requires the ability to compile, assemble, copy, record and/or transcribe data and information according to a prescribed scheme or plan.

● Human Interaction\: Requires the ability to explain, demonstrate and clarify to co-workers and others within well established policies, procedures and standards. Ability to follow specific instructions and respond to simple requests from supervisors.

● Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use\: Requires the ability to start, stop, operate and monitor functioning equipment, machinery and tools such as mops, brooms, carts, common hand and power tools, floor machines, and/or materials used in performing essential functions

● Verbal Aptitude\: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference data and information such as work orders, operating instructions, schedules and procedures.

● Mathematical Aptitude\: Requires the ability to perform addition and subtraction. Functional Reasoning\: Requires the ability to carry out detailed but uninvolved written and oral instructions. Involves routine work according to clearly prescribed standard practices, with some latitude for independent judgment.

● Situational Reasoning\: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment required in situations characterized by repetitive or short cycle operations covered by set procedures or sequences.

● Environmental Factors\: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, electric currents, toxic/poisonous agents, disease, or pathogenic substances.

● Physical Requirements\: Requires the ability to lift up to fifty (50) pounds, push and pull to over one hundred (100) pounds to perform custodial and cleaning duties such as picking up trash, pushing carts and other tasks.

● Sensory Requirements\: Requires the ability to recognize and identify individual characteristics of colors, shapes, sounds, odors and textures associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks to determine cleanliness.