About the Role
Custodians are responsible for providing an enhanced learning environment that exemplifies IDEA’s commitment to excellence through a clean, safe, high-quality facility.
Responsibilities
- Provide a clean and healthy environment that guarantees an enhanced learning environment
- Achieve a proficient rating on the Facilities Rubric and Facilities Audit
- Execute assigned work orders, assuring 90% of campus projects are completed within 48 hours
- Complete all daily cleaning responsibilities, paying special attention to details
- Work with Facilities Manager to identify facilities needs for capital expenditures (CapEx) planning
- Operate in a safe manner
- Complete SafeSchools training by deadline
- Use all personal protective equipment (PPE) 100% of the time
- Ensure all chemicals on-hand are locked
- Act immediately to report any unsafe situation on the campus
- Manage custodial supplies and equipment in an efficient manner to achieve the campus cost per square foot allocation with kWh usage per square foot
- Minimize consumption of all materials
- Keep an accurate inventory log sheet
- Order supplies from Facilities Manager within campus guidelines
- Properly use and maintain heavy equipment
- Demonstrate reliability and responsibility through attendance, punctuality, and flexibility
- Maintain zero unexcused absences
- Maintain consistent punctuality
- Demonstrate the Team Player attitude with the ability to work longer hours as needed to meet the mission goal
- Follow work schedule to assure efficiency
- Prioritize and make use of good judgment
Requirements
- Ability to understand instructions for cleaning, maintenance, and safety procedures
- Knowledge of minor repair techniques and building and grounds maintenance
- Ability to operate cleaning equipment and lift heavy equipment
- Ability to properly handle cleaning supplies
- Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college
- Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
- Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly
- Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
- Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
- Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
- Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes
- Hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students
Skills
- Cleaning
- Maintenance
- Safety procedures
- Minor repair techniques
- Building and grounds maintenance
- Operating cleaning equipment
- Lifting heavy equipment
- Handling cleaning supplies
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 0 years of experience
Salary/Compensations
- $16.76 - $20.20 per hour
Benefits
- Performance bonus based on team performance and goal attainment
- Comprehensive benefits plan
- Majority of employee premium for the base medical plan covered
- Subsidy for the majority of costs for a spouse/domestic partner and children
- Paid Family Leave (up to 8 weeks for birth or adoption)
- Tuition Reimbursement (up to 50% of tuition, max $5,250 per year)
- Employer-Paid Mental/Behavioral Health (5 face-to-face counseling sessions, unlimited telephonic counseling)
- Dental and vision plans
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Parenting benefits
- Generous vacation time
- Referral bonuses
- Professional development
- Potential relocation allowance
About the Company
- At IDEA Public Schools, we believe each and every child can go to college.
- Since 2000, IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school with 150 students to a multi-state network of tuition-free, Pre-K-12 public charter schools.
- IDEA Public Schools boasts national rankings on The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report’s top high schools lists.
- IDEA serves over 80,000 college-bound students in 143 schools across Texas, Florida, Ohio.
- IDEA is on-track to maintain its legacy of sending 100% of its graduates to college.
- When you choose to work at IDEA, you are part of our IDEA Team and Family.
- You will work alongside team members who set and reach ambitious goals every day, are excited to continue to grow with IDEA, and work relentlessly to make college for all a reality.
- At IDEA the Staff Culture and Belonging Team uses our Core Values to promote human connection and a culture of integrity, respect, and belonging for all Team and Family members.
