Grounds/Custodial Team Member (Full Time)

Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 18,752 - 26,708; Full time

Job summary

Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium is seeking a full-time Grounds/Custodial Team Member responsible for ensuring a clean and safe environment for visitors. This role involves various duties, including cleaning surfaces, maintaining facilities, and operating cleaning equipment. Ideal candidates must be 18 years or older, able to make safety decisions, and comfortable with potential exposure to bodily fluids. A flexible schedule is required, including weekends and holidays.

Qualifications

• Ability to interact with all types of people professionally and effectively.
• Must be able to make immediate decisions pertaining to safety.
• Comfortable with possible exposure to bodily fluids.

Responsibilities

• Maintain cleanliness in all areas of the Zoo & Aquarium.
• Empty trash and recycling receptacles frequently.
• Work with cleaning equipment and perform snow removal as necessary.

Skills

Professional interaction with guests

Ability to operate cleaning equipment

Education

Must be 18 years of age or older

Tools

Trash compactors

Floor scrubbers

Pressure washers

Orbital buffers

Leaf blowers

Snow blowers

Extractors

Job description

GROUNDS/CUSTODIAL TEAM MEMBER (FULL TIME)

DEPARTMENT Grounds/Custodial

CLASSIFICATION Non-Exempt

REPORTS TO Grounds Manager, Grounds Assistant Manager, Grounds Supervisor

DIRECT REPORTS N/A

STARTING PAY $16.50/Hour

POSITION DESCRIPTION

The Grounds/Custodial Team Member is responsible for maintaining a clean and safe environment for Zoo & Aquarium visitors. Duties will include, but are not limited to, working independently while sweeping, mopping, vacuuming floors, cleaning surfaces with disinfectant, and emptying trash and recycling cans. Additionally, Grounds/Custodial Team Members will attend to eating areas and playground equipment.

POSITION DUTIES & ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Daily responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Litter control in all areas of the Zoo & Aquarium including but not limited to parking lots, walking paths, grassy areas, buildings, and event spaces.
• Maintaining cleanliness of all facilities, including but not limited to restrooms, administrative areas, buildings, and event spaces.
• Frequently emptying trash receptacles and recycling.
• Organizing and cleaning outside eating areas.
• Regularly working with bodily fluids.
• Setting up, cleaning, monitoring, and tearing down special events.
• Greeting and welcoming all guests.
• Assisting with all guests’ needs, including questions, inquiries, and directions.
• Safely operating equipment such as trash compactors, floor scrubbers, pressure washers, orbital buffers, leaf blowers, snow blowers, and extractors.
• Perform snow removal as necessary.

Additional assignments may be requested to support the Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• EDUCATION & FORMAL TRAINING
  • Must be 18 years of age or older.
• EXPERIENCE
  • Ability to interact with all types of people professionally and effectively.
• OTHER MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
  • Valid driver’s license desired.
  • Must be able to make immediate decisions pertaining to safety.
  • Can move equipment weighing up to 50 pounds with or without assistance. Assistance depending upon task or role.
  • Must be able to constantly move and position oneself to complete work for extended periods of time.
  • Comfortable with possible exposure to bodily fluids, including blood, vomit, urine, etc.
  • Must be able to work a flexible schedule, including weekends, holidays, and evening hours, in all weather extremes.
  • Must pass a background and drug screening.

*All employees must be able to perform the essential functions of this position satisfactorily and, upon request, reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job, absent undue hardship.