Cleaner - SUNY Polytechnic Institute

SUNY Polytechnic Institute; City of Utica (NY); On-site; USD 34,000; Full time

Job summary

SUNY Polytechnic Institute is seeking a Cleaner to maintain cleanliness across assigned areas. The role involves various cleaning tasks, including waste disposal and floor maintenance, with no formal education required but physical ability is essential. This position offers competitive pay and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Healthcare

Dental

Vision

Pension plans

Generous paid time off

Tuition assistance

Life insurance

Long-term disability insurance

Qualifications

• Must be physically able to perform medium to heavy physical labor.
• Understand and carry out written and oral instructions.

Responsibilities

• Perform a wide range of cleaning tasks to maintain assigned areas.
• Collect and dispose of waste, clean various surfaces, and replace light bulbs.
• May be assigned to remove snow and clean sidewalks.

Skills

Physical ability

Ability to follow instructions

Job description

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SUNY Polytechnic Institute provided pay range

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Base pay range

$33,313.00/yr - $33,313.00/yr

Job Description

Cleaners perform a wide range of cleaning tasks to maintain assigned areas.

• Collects, transports, and disposes of office waste or spoiled materials in accordance with cleaning procedures.
• Cleans floors, corridors, stairs and stairwells, walls, partitions, windows from the inside or outside of buildings using vacuums, mops, brushes, detergents, buffers, floor scrubbers, and other cleaning implements.
• Cleans bodily fluids including urine, vomit, and feces with proper training.
• Strips and waxes floors; vacuums and shampoos carpets; and dusts assigned areas using manual or mechanical equipment.
• Cleans and scrubs all areas of lavatories and locker rooms, such as sinks, urinals, toilets, showers, shower walls and drains, tile floors, and locker room common areas.
• Replaces light bulbs, dusts or washes light fixtures and high places such as ceilings using a 6-ft ladder.
• Cleans and polishes furniture, metal fixtures, and equipment.
• Removes waste articles from floors, furniture, and equipment and places them in designated receptacles or in appropriate places.
• Moves furniture and equipment in connection with cleaning activities, or set-ups for meetings or special events.
• Empties trash, recyclables, and waste, in accordance with cleaning schedule.
• Assembles cleaning cart to conform to assigned cleaning duties, and mixes and properly dilutes cleaning solutions in accordance with manufacturer directions.
• Wears appropriate protective clothing, and other specialized protective equipment as required by the cleaning assignments.
• Checks supplies and equipment functioning, and notifies supervisor of low supply levels, equipment malfunction, and building maintenance issues noted during cleaning.
• May be assigned to remove snow and salt walkways, and clean sidewalks from litter using manual equipment.
• Other reasonable duties as assigned.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

Please note: qualifications for this position may be subject to change. If substitutions for education and/or experience are allowed, this information would be available on the announcement.

This position is in the labor class, and no examination is required. There are no educational or experience requirements. However, applicants must be physically able to perform medium to heavy physical labor as well as understand and carry out written or oral instructions.

Other Requirements

Applicants must be willing to work morning, evening, and/or weekend shifts. Must be physically able to perform medium to heavy physical labor and understand and carry out written and oral instructions.

Additional Information

Closing date for receipt of applications: continuous recruitment

SUNY Polytechnic Institute offers exceptional benefits such as healthcare, dental, vision, pension plans, competitive pay, generous paid time off, tuition assistance, life insurance and long-term disability insurance.

As an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer, SUNY Polytechnic Institute will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant's race, creed, religion, color, citizenship, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, predisposing genetic characteristics, gender identification or expression, genetic information, familial status, marital status, pregnancy, status as a domestic violence victim, criminal conviction, disability, military status, disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, Armed Forces Service Medal veteran, or other characteristic as protected by law.

The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, or Clery Act, mandates that all Title IV institutions, without exception, prepare, publish and distribute an Annual Security Report. This report consists of two basic parts: disclosure of the College's crime statistics for the past three years; and disclosures regarding the College's current campus security policies. The SUNY Polytechnic Institute Annual Security Report is available in portable document format here.

Inquiries regarding the application of Title IX and other laws, regulations and policies prohibiting discrimination may be directed to the Title IX Coordinator at [e-mail] or to the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights at 32 Old Slip 26th Floor, New York, NY 10005-2500; Tel. [phone]; Email [e-mail].

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor's Office of Employee Relations at [phone] or via email at [e-mail].

Application Instructions

Applicants must address in their applications their abilities to work with a culturally diverse population. This position is contingent on the satisfactory completion of a background check; this position may require annual checks.

Persons interested in the above position should submit a resume, cover letter, three references, a diversity statement, along with The SUNY Polytechnic employment application. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), if you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a position please email us at [e-mail] or call 315-792-7191.