Full-Time Hospital Custodian — Floor Care Pro

UMass Med School; Worcester (MA); On-site; USD 27,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

UMass Med School in Worcester, MA is seeking a full-time janitor to perform general janitorial and custodial work in cleaning and maintaining a hospital setting.

The role requires handling patient areas, operating rooms, and emergency departments, along with offices and labs. The job emphasizes safety, initiative, and strong human relations skills while adapting to emergencies and varying tasks.

Qualifications

• Considers knowledge of materials, equipment, and methods used in housekeeping and cleaning operations.
• Ability to operate vacuum cleaners, mops, wringers, brushes and other cleaning equipment.
• Possesses appropriate human relations skills when interacting with patients, visitors, and coworkers.
• Ability to follow oral and written instructions.
• Working knowledge of cleaning supplies and their effects on different finishes.

Responsibilities

• Clean hospital areas such as patient rooms, operating rooms, emergency department, and isolation rooms.
• Clean offices, labs, rooms, corridors, and other spaces.
• Clean, burnish, polish, buff, strip and refinish floors.
• Wash windows, woodwork, toilets/lavatories, washrooms and fixtures.
• Dust and polish furniture in offices, rooms, corridors, and other spaces.
• Maintain carpets including vacuuming, shampooing, extracting, and steam padding.
• Empty and clean waste barrels, garbage cans and other receptacles.
• Move furniture as required.
• Exhibit appropriate human relations skills when interacting with patients, visitors, employees, coworkers, and supervisors.
• Has concern for work area, takes initiative to solve problems, is flexible in adapting to various situations, including emergencies such as floods, fires, major spills.
• Consistently completes assignments with minimal supervision; is courteous to patients, visitors, etc.
• Assist other employees as necessary.
• Performs other duties as required.

Skills

Cleaning operations

Cleaning equipment operation

Human relations

Follow instructions

Cleaning supplies knowledge

Education

High school diploma

Job description

UMass Med School in Worcester, MA is seeking a full-time janitor to perform general janitorial and custodial work in cleaning and maintaining a hospital setting.

The role requires handling patient areas, operating rooms, and emergency departments, along with offices and labs. The job emphasizes safety, initiative, and strong human relations skills while adapting to emergencies and varying tasks.