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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Keep buildings in clean and orderly condition. Perform heavy cleaning duties, such as cleaning floors, shampooing rugs, washing walls and glass, and removing rubbish. Duties may include tending furnace and boiler, performing routine maintenance activities, notifying management of need for repairs, and cleaning snow or debris from sidewalk. | Monitor building security and safety by performing such tasks as locking doors after operating hours and checking electrical appliance use to ensure that hazards are not created. | |||
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Service, clean, and supply restrooms. | ||||
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Gather and empty trash. | ||||
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Clean building floors by sweeping, mopping, scrubbing, or vacuuming them. | ||||
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Follow procedures for the use of chemical cleaners and power equipment to prevent damage to floors and fixtures. | ||||
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Mix water and detergents or acids in containers to prepare cleaning solutions, according to specifications. | ||||
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Strip, seal, finish, and polish floors. | ||||
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Notify managers concerning the need for major repairs or additions to building operating systems. | ||||
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Requisition supplies and equipment needed for cleaning and maintenance duties. | ||||
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Clean windows, glass partitions, and mirrors, using soapy water or other cleaners, sponges, and squeegees. | ||||
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Steam clean or shampoo carpets. | ||||
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Set up, arrange, and remove decorations, tables, chairs, ladders, and scaffolding to prepare facilities for events, such as banquets and meetings. | ||||
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Clean and polish furniture and fixtures. | ||||
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Dust furniture, walls, machines, and equipment. | ||||
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Move heavy furniture, equipment, and supplies, either manually or by using hand trucks. | ||||
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Remove snow from sidewalks, driveways, and parking areas, using snowplows, snow blowers, and snow shovels, and spread snow melting chemicals. | ||||
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Clean laboratory equipment, such as glassware and metal instruments, using solvents, brushes, rags, and power cleaning equipment. | ||||
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Spray insecticides and fumigants to prevent insect and rodent infestation. | ||||
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Make adjustments and minor repairs to heating, cooling, ventilating, plumbing, and electrical systems. | ||||
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Drive vehicles required to perform or travel to cleaning work, including vans, industrial trucks, or industrial vacuum cleaners. | ||||
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Mow and trim lawns and shrubbery, using mowers and hand and power trimmers, and clear debris from grounds. | ||||
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Clean and restore building interiors damaged by fire, smoke, or water, using commercial cleaning equipment. | ||||
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Clean chimneys, flues, and connecting pipes, using power and hand tools. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Janitor
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
- Knowledges
- Skills
- Abilites
- Tools and Technology
- Education and Experience
- Alternate Job Titles
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. | |||
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Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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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. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
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. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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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. | |||
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Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Microsoft Office software | Office suite software | |||
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Microsoft Word | Word processing software | |||
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Adjustable hand wrenches | Adjustable wrenches | |||
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Adjustable widemouth pliers | Adjustable widemouth pliers | |||
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Aerial manlifts | Manlift or personnel lift | |||
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Air compressors | Air compressors | |||
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Carpet shampooers | Carpet cleaning equipment | |||
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Claw hammers | Hammers | |||
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Cordless drills | Power drills | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Dry mops | Dust mops | |||
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Equipment dollies | Dollies | |||
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Extension ladders | Ladders | |||
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Floor buffers | Floor polishers | |||
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Floor strippers | Floor scrapers | |||
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Floor waxers | Floor polishers | |||
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Forklifts | Forklifts | |||
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Hand files | Files | |||
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Hand trucks | Hand trucks or accessories | |||
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Hedge trimmers | Hedge clippers | |||
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Industrial vacuums | Vacuum cleaners | |||
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Insecticide sprayers | Hand sprayers | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Phillips head screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Portable scaffolding | Scaffolding | |||
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Power floor scrubbers | Floor scrubbers | |||
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Power grinders | Power grinders | |||
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Power mowers | Lawnmowers | |||
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Power saws | Power saws | |||
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Protective ear plugs | Ear plugs | |||
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Push brooms | Brooms | |||
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Ratchet wrenches | Ratchets | |||
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Ride-on industrial vacuum cleaners | Vacuum cleaners | |||
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Safety glasses | Safety glasses | |||
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Safety gloves | Protective gloves | |||
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Scissor lifts | Scissor lift | |||
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Snow blowers | Snow blowers | |||
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Snow shovels | Shovels | |||
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Snowplows | Snowplow attachments | |||
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Steam cleaning equipment | Pressure or steam cleaners | |||
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Step ladders | Ladders | |||
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Straight screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Wet mops | Wet mops | |||
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Window squeegees | Squeegees or washers | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Up to and including 1 month | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Airport Attendant | |||
Alley Cleaner | |||
Alley Worker | |||
Attendant | |||
Brass Cleaner | |||
Brass Polisher | |||
Building Attendant | |||
Building Custodian | |||
Building Maintenance Custodian | |||
Building Maintenance Superintendent | |||
Building Maintenance Technician | |||
Building Superintendent, Cleaning, Painting, Maintenance | |||
Building Superintendent, Custodian, Janitor, Maintenance | |||
Camp Attendant | |||
Camp Tender | |||
Campground Cleaning Attendant | |||
Care Taker | |||
Caretaker | |||
Carpet Cleaner | |||
Casino Porter | |||
Change House Attendant | |||
Chimney Sweep | |||
Chore Worker | |||
Cleaner | |||
Cleaning Custodian | |||
Cleaning Handyman | |||
Cleaning Laborer | |||
Cleaning Porter | |||
Cleaning Technician | |||
Cleaning and Maintenance Worker | |||
Coach Cleaner | |||
Commercial or Institutional Cleaner | |||
Custodial Aide | |||
Custodial Engineer | |||
Custodial Laborer | |||
Custodial Maintenance Worker | |||
Custodial Worker | |||
Custodian | |||
Day Worker | |||
Dormitory Keeper | |||
Dry Boss | |||
Dry House Attendant | |||
Dry House Worker | |||
Dry Man | |||
Duct Cleaner | |||
Environmental Specialist | |||
Fixture Relamper | |||
Floor Cleaner | |||
Floor Polisher | |||
Floor Scrubber | |||
Floor Sweeper | |||
Floor Tech (Floor Technician) | |||
Floor Waxer | |||
Floorperson | |||
Floors Buffer | |||
Furnace Caretaker | |||
Furnace Operator | |||
Hall Cleaner | |||
Handy Man | |||
Handyman | |||
Head Cleaning Porter | |||
Heavy Duty Custodian | |||
Helper, Maintenance, Cleaning | |||
Hired Man | |||
Hired Worker | |||
Home Restoration Service Cleaner | |||
Hospital Cleaner | |||
Housekeeper | |||
Houseman | |||
Hydroelectric Plant Maintainer | |||
Industrial Cleaner | |||
Industrial Plant Custodian | |||
Industrial Sweeper-Cleaner | |||
Janitor | |||
Janitor Caretaker | |||
Janitor Cleaner | |||
Janitor Custodian | |||
Janitor Helper | |||
Janitor and Cleaner | |||
Janitorial Assistant | |||
Janitorial Maintenance Worker | |||
Joss House Keeper | |||
Labor Custodian | |||
Laboratory Equipment Cleaner | |||
Lamp Replacer | |||
Latrine Cleaner | |||
Lead Janitor | |||
Light Bulb Replacer | |||
Light Fixture Servicer | |||
Maintenance Aide | |||
Maintenance Assistant | |||
Maintenance Worker | |||
Marble Cleaner | |||
Metal Polisher | |||
Multi-Story Window/Building Exterior Cleaner | |||
Odd Jobs Day Worker | |||
Office Cleaner | |||
Office Sweeper | |||
Operational Service Worker (OSW) | |||
Paper Cleaner | |||
Patch Worker | |||
Plant Custodian | |||
Pool Cleaner | |||
Porter | |||
Power Washer | |||
Project Crew Worker | |||
Sanitation Worker | |||
School Custodian | |||
School Janitor | |||
Scrub Woman | |||
Scrubber | |||
Sexton | |||
Station Cleaning Porter | |||
Sweeper | |||
Swimming Pool Servicer | |||
Tobacco Sweeper | |||
Utility Person | |||
Utility Porter | |||
Utility Worker | |||
Venetian Blind Cleaner | |||
Venetian Blind Cleaner and Repairer | |||
Venetian Blind Washer | |||
Wall Cleaner | |||
Wall Washer | |||
Wallpaper Cleaner | |||
Washer | |||
Washhouse Worker | |||
Window Cleaner | |||
Window Washer | |||
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