Floor Technician/Custodian

We are seeking a Floor Tech/Custodian to join our community committed to maintaining cleanliness and servicing of assigned areas, care of cleaning equipment, efficient expenditures of soaps, waxes, polishes, and similar supplies. As a Floor Tech/Custodian, you will play an important role in all phases of housekeeping that meets or exceeds Buckner quality, service, and hospitality standards. Join our team and inspire happiness in the lives of others! 

What you'll do:

• Perform day-to-day housekeeping functions of assigned areas in accordance with daily work assignments.
• Coordinate daily housekeeping services with nursing services when performing routine cleaning assignments in resident living and/or recreational areas.
• Clean/polish furnishings, fixtures, ledges, room heating/cooling units, etc. in residents’ rooms, recreational areas, etc. daily.
• Clean and service all aspects of rooms, baths, offices, and common areas seeking a "like new" effect.
• Clean floors to include, sweeping, dusting, damp/wet mopping, stripping, waxing, buffing, disinfecting, etc. while assuring that appropriate caution/safety signs are properly in place.
• Dust furniture and equipment; clean windows, windowsills, mirrors, and light globes in resident rooms, recreational areas, bathrooms, and entrance/exit ways.
• Clean, wash, sanitize and/or polish bathroom fixtures; ensure that watermarks are removed from fixtures. Scour and polish bathtubs, sinks, mirrors, and similar items; replenish supplies of soap and towels.
• Keep utility storage rooms in good order by cleaning lockers and equipment, arranging supplies, and vacuuming, sweeping and mopping floors as needed.

 What you’ll bring:

• Requires proficient ability to read, write, and understand business documents which are written in English. Requires ability to understand verbal English and speak English.
• Requires ability to communicate verbally with residents, families, visitors and co-workers. Requires ability to make self clearly understood by others.
• Requires the ability to understand and follow basic written and oral step-by-step instructions.
• Requires ability to move cleaning equipment throughout the facility on a daily basis.
• Work deals mostly with objects, equipment, and/or machines at or within arm’s reach. Depth perception and field of vision (peripheral) are of some importance.
• Requires the ability to move cleaning equipment/food throughout the facility, using up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or a small amount of force continuously to move objects and/or people.
• Requires ability to walk, stand and sit, sometimes for prolonged periods of time; Turn, stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, push, pull, handle, stand, and walk over 75% of shift.

 The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the essential functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.