Job Description

Supervisor, Custodial Services

Salary: $63,109

Department: Facilities Management

Pay Grade: ADM3

Reports To: Assistant Director, Buildings and Operations

FLSA Status: Exempt

Unit: Administrative

Opening Date: 9/6/2024

Closing Date:   9/27/2024

GENERAL STATEMENT OF JOB

Performs administrative work overseeing cleaning and equipment maintenance.

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential Functions:

1. Inspects all buildings on a daily basis to ensure that cleaning levels are maintained. 
2. Advises immediate supervisor of capital equipment and supply needs for the entire housekeeping process. 
3. Assigns personnel to specific areas using judgment as to priorities. 
4. Ensures that all equipment maintained in a safe and proper operating condition and provides for equipment repair. 
5. Establishes and enforces productivity and quality standards on a weekly basis.
6. Supervises bargaining unit members and provides for their training, motivation, and performance appraisal.
7. Prepares detailed and accurate reports related to building inspection and conditions.
8. Coordinates events on campus for internal and external customers.
9. Purchase custodial supplies for the campus.
10. Supervises personnel, providing training and performance appraisals.
11. Refreshes restrooms, cleanup, and organization custodial training.
12. Participates in the yearly custodial supply’s bids.
13. Prepares Classrooms and Computer Labs Furniture Inspection Reports biannually.
14. Creates work orders, follows up, and processes to close.
15. Establishes and monitors measurable goals for department. 
16. Performs other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• High school diploma or equivalent;
• Two years’ custodial supervisory experience;
• Ability to prepare detailed and accurate information/correspondence with respect to reports, grievance responses, time records, building inspections, etc.;
• Strong PC skills with knowledge of Microsoft Office; and
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

The work is sedentary work which requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required: 

• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
• Hearing 1: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound. 
• Hearing 2: Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound. 
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees. 
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles. 
• Mental Acuity: Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time. 
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles. 
• Talking 1: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Talking 2: Shouting in order to be heard above ambient noise level. 
• Visual Acuity 1: Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
• Visual Acuity 2: Including color, depth perception, and field vision.
• Visual Acuity 3: Visual Acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures.
• Visual Acuity 4: Have visual acuity to operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment.
• Visual Acuity 5: Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, operation of machines; using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication parts at distances close to the eyes.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

SCHEDULE:            Monday - Friday, 10:30 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., 35 hours per week

RETIREMENT:        Pension Eligible

NJ First Act

Any Middlesex College employee hired after September 1, 2011 will have to meet the New Jersey residency law requirement.       

Equal Opportunity Employer

Middlesex College is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, marital status, familial status, religion, affectional or sexual orientation, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, genetic information, liability for service in the armed forces of the United States, or disability.

Affirmative Action and Compliance Statement

Middlesex College is firmly committed to a policy of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action. The College will implement this policy to assure that the educational programs, activities, services, benefits and employment opportunities offered by the College are available to all persons regardless of sex, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, nationality, color, marital status, civil union or domestic partnership status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity, age, handicap (and/or disability), service in the armed forces, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, genetic information, refusal to submit to genetic tests, or refusal to make available results of genetic tests, in accordance with State and Federal laws. All employees and students are expected to accept these principles and to reflect their spirit in everyday relationships with fellow employees and students. Inquiries regarding compliance may be directed to the Affirmative Action Officer, Middlesex College, Chambers Hall, 2600 Woodbridge Avenue, Edison, New Jersey 08818-3050.

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