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About the Role

The Custodian supports the efforts of Custodial Services to maintain safe, clean, orderly, and sanitary conditions throughout the campus community. This is a full-time, year-round position with a flexible schedule that may include extended shifts and reporting to work during college closures.

Responsibilities

• Perform general custodial work to maintain safe, clean, orderly, and sanitary conditions in buildings and adjacent grounds.
• Maintain a clean and orderly workspace that meets environmental health and safety standards, including managing universal and hazardous waste.
• Collaborate effectively with diverse colleagues, ensuring a respectful and inclusive climate.
• Strip, screen, and refinish floors, extract carpets, wash walls, ceilings, and glass.
• Perform snow removal and support the campus-wide recycling program.
• Complete monthly work request forms, building inspections, and student damage reports.
• Troubleshoot and carry out routine repairs of cleaning equipment and building trade-related issues that do not require a license.
• Assist special services and event support services as needed for events and general trucking on campus.
• Act as the first line of stewardship in preserving campus buildings.
• Clean and maintain, regularly inspect, monitor, and report maintenance issues.
• Manage waste, inventory supplies, and conserve energy by monitoring lights and electronics.
• Communicate and coordinate with students, OSA housing staff, and academic/administrative staff regarding observed issues.

Requirements

• A valid driver's license and successful credentialing to operate college vehicles.
• Basic math skills, including adding and subtracting.
• Basic computer skills.
• Strong customer service, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to follow written and verbal instructions.
• Commitment to contributing to an intentionally inclusive and respectful climate.
• Attention to detail.
• Successful completion of required reference and background checks.
• An acceptable criminal offender records information (CORI) check.
• Successful completion of pre-employment physical and lift test.

Skills

• Customer service
• Organizational skills
• Time-management skills
• Verbal communication skills
• Written communication skills
• Ability to follow written and verbal instructions
• Attention to detail

Location

• Amherst College campus

Work Type

• Full-time
• Year-round

Education Level

• High School or Vocational Diploma or equivalent (Preferred)

Salary/Compensations

• $19.98 to $20.25 per hour

Benefits

• Comprehensive, highly competitive benefits package

About the Company

• Amherst College has taken a leadership role among highly selective liberal arts colleges and universities in successfully diversifying the racial, socio-economic, and geographic profile of its student body.
• The College is similarly committed to enriching its educational experience and its culture through the diversity of its faculty, administration and staff.

Equal Opportunity

• Amherst College is committed to an inclusive hiring process and will provide reasonable accommodations for candidates throughout the application and interview process upon request.
• It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.