About the Role
The University of Rochester is seeking individuals committed to Meliora - Ever Better, embodying values of equity, leadership, integrity, openness, respect, and accountability to create a welcoming and thriving community.
Responsibilities
- Performs general heavy and light cleaning and housekeeping services in University buildings.
- Operates light or heavy duty housekeeping and floor maintenance machines to strip, wax, and buff floors.
- Performs cleaning and disinfecting procedures by fogging rooms and washing floors, walls, furniture, and fixtures.
- Washes walls, ceilings, stairs, and overhead equipment; vacuums rugs, furniture, draperies.
- Cleans and dusts furniture; makes empty beds; distributes linen.
- Takes down, washes, and rehangs venetian blinds and screens; takes down and rehangs draperies and curtains; washes windows.
- Empties wastebaskets and picks up trash from designated areas, loading into a dump truck for transport to a compactor.
- Washes large trash cans, wastebaskets, blackboards, and doors.
- Cleans kitchens and dining areas.
- Performs custodial duties such as moving equipment/furniture, tightening hardware, cleaning elevator tracks, changing light bulbs, and shoveling snow.
- Maintains cleanliness of work storage closets and equipment.
- Performs other similar duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Requires ability to understand and carry out oral instructions.
- Stands, walks, bends, and reaches continuously.
- Handles heavy and medium-weight material, equipment, and supplies.
- Is normally exposed to refuse, dirt, dust, detergents, body wastes, and odors indoors and outdoors.
- Occasionally exposed to the possibility of contacts with infection and infectious diseases.
Skills
- Operating commercial-type and light-weight maintenance machines and equipment
- Floor maintenance
- Cleaning and disinfecting procedures
- Washing walls, ceilings, stairs, windows
- Vacuuming
- Furniture dusting and waxing
- Bed making
- Linen distribution
- Blind and drapery maintenance
- Waste removal
- Trash can washing
- Blackboard cleaning
- Kitchen and dining area cleaning
- Moving equipment/furniture
- Minor maintenance tasks (tightening hardware, changing light bulbs)
- Snow shoveling
Location
- 601 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, New York, United States of America, 14642
Work Type
- Part time
- Regular
Salary/Compensations
- $18.38 - $24.94
About the Company
- The University of Rochester is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving an inclusive and welcoming culture to advance the University’s Mission to Learn, Discover, Heal, Create – and Make the World Ever Better.
Equal Opportunity
- The University is committed to not discriminating on the basis of age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, military/veteran status, national origin, race, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law (Protected Characteristics).
- This commitment extends to non-discrimination in the administration of our policies, admissions, employment, access, and recruitment of candidates, for all persons consistent with our values and based on applicable law.
