Custodian/Meatroom

Servtech; Portsmouth (VA); On-site; USD 19,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Servtech is seeking a custodial worker for a federal installation, where you will perform heavy cleaning, floor care, and maintenance using scrubbers and buffers. You must be able to pass a federal background check and work weekends, evenings, and graveyard shifts.

A High School diploma or GED is required, and applicants should have strong reading, listening, speaking, coordination and time-management skills to follow procedures and keep facilities clean and safe.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED is required.
• Must be able to pass a federal background investigation.
• Experience with custodial maintenance and floor care is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Clean meat room, floors, windows, and restrooms.
• Operate scrubbing machines and propane buffers.
• Perform routine custodial maintenance and report repairs as needed.
• Work weekends, evenings, and graveyard shifts.

Skills

Reading comprehension

Active listening

Speaking

Coordination

Equipment selection

Time management

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

Scrubbing machines

Propane buffers

Baler

Job description

We strongly encourage veterans and disabled veterans to apply for this role. We give hiring preference to veterans and persons with disabilities. We will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities in accordance with the law.

Servtech is dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success, and we are committed to creating an environment that welcomes and celebrates differences in race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, and other protected characteristics. We embrace the principles of equal employment opportunity (EOE) and comply with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit discrimination.

Position summary:

This position is cumbent on employment on a Federal Installation in which the applicant must be able to pass a federal background investigation. Keep buildings in clean and orderly condition. Perform heavy cleaning duties, such as Cleaning meat room, cleaning floors, shampooing rugs, waxing, buffing, burnishing floors, washing walls and glass, and removing rubbish. Duties may include performing routine custodial maintenance on machinery used in daily operations, notifying Servtech management of need for repairs. Individual may also be cleaning snow or debris from sidewalk. Operating large cleaning equipment such as scrubbing machines and propane buffers. Tasks:

Cleaning Meat Room

Clean building floors by sweeping, mopping, scrubbing, or vacuuming them. Strip and refinish floors. Operating scrub machines and propane buffers.

• Gather and empty trash. Collect and remove cardboard and compact cardboard using baler. Making cardboard bales and storing them.
• Clean windows, glass partitions, and mirrors, using soapy water or other cleaners, sponges, and squeegees.
• Service, clean, and supply restrooms.
• Dust furniture, walls, machines, and equipment.
• Clean and polish furniture and fixtures.

2 to three days a week Sanitizing and cleaning the Meat room.

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Skills:

• Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Equipment Selection - Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
• Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Attributes:

• Reasoning - The ability to adjust work procedures with changing circumstances and be able to maintain productive levels.
• Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

Experience And Education:

High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate)

Physical Requirements:

• Trunk Strength - The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing.
• Manual Dexterity - The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
• Static Strength - The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
• Extent Flexibility- The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.

SCHEDULE OF WORK

• Must be able to work weekends and Holidays.
• Must be able to work evening and night shifts to include graveyard shifts.