Custodial Worker 1 - South Mountain Restoration Center

About the role

Are you someone who values cleanliness, safety, and providing excellent support behind the scenes? As a Custodial Worker 1 with the Department of Human Services, you will help care for the buildings and grounds at South Mountain Restoration Center, helping create an environment that supports resident care and facility operations. Your commitment to maintaining high standards will contribute to a welcoming and well-maintained setting. Take pride in work that has a lasting impact on the people you serve.

This position performs a variety of custodial duties to maintain institutional buildings and surrounding grounds in a clean, sanitary, and orderly condition. Responsibilities include cleaning, linen distribution, equipment operation, and basic facility support activities. As a Custodial Worker 1, you will perform the following duties:

• Facility Cleaning:: Mop, dust, scrub, wax, and clean floors, furniture, walls, restrooms, and other assigned areas
• Linen Services:: Prepare, deliver, disinfect, and organize linen carts, clothing items, and related supplies
• Equipment Operation:: Operate cleaning equipment and machines using established procedures and safety practices
• Material Handling:: Move furniture, remove trash, separate recyclable materials, and transport supplies as needed
• Building Support:: Replace light bulbs, complete minor repairs, or report maintenance needs to supervisors
• Grounds Maintenance:: Sweep walkways, maintain entrances, and remove snow or apply ice melt during inclement weather

Interested in learning more? Additional details regarding this position can be found in the position description.

Work Schedule and Additional Information

• Full-time employment, 37.5 hours per week
• Work hours are 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, on a rotating basis, including weekends and holidays, with a 30-minute lunch.
• Telework: You will not have the option to telework in this position.
• Salary: In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
• You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.

Additional Requirement

• You must be able to perform essential job functions.

Preferred Qualifications (not required)

• Willingness and ability to work in Franklin County, Pennsylvania
• Work experience as a custodian, janitor, or cleaning person. This experience may include cleaning restrooms; cleaning resident rooms, offices, or public areas; and performing tasks such as mopping, scrubbing, dusting, sweeping, or buffing.
• Custodial or housekeeping work experience in a hospital, nursing home, correctional facility, fast food facility, restaurant, cafeteria, or school
• Work experience collecting and disposing of infectious waste into proper storage areas
• Work experience removing snow, trash, and debris from sidewalks and building entrance ways
• Work experience using and mixing chemicals or solvents
• Work experience using manual or power equipment to mop, scrub, sweep, strip, wax, and buff floors
• Work experience performing tasks such as operating a floor scrubbing machine, using ladders to clean high areas, proper handling of cleaning chemicals, interacting with patients or residents, snow removal from walkways and entrances, replacing light bulbs, cleaning furniture, mopping (wet or dry), and scrubbing

Legal Requirements

• A conditional offer of employment will require a medical examination.
• This position falls under the provisions of the Older Adult Protective Services Act.
• Under the Act, a conditional offer of employment will require submission and approval of satisfactory criminal history reports, including but not limited to, PA State Police and FBI clearance.

How to Apply

• Resumes, cover letters, and similar documents will not be reviewed, and the information contained therein will not be considered for the purposes of determining your eligibility for the position. Information to support your eligibility for the position must be provided on the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education).
• Your application must be submitted by the posting closing date. Late applications and other required materials will not be accepted.
• Failure to comply with the above application requirements may eliminate you from consideration for this position.
• All application materials and interview responses must reflect the applicant’s own experience, qualifications, and work. Applicants may use generative AI tools for preparation purposes only. Use of AI to misrepresent or falsify information, or to assist during interviews, is not permitted. Review the Guidance for Generative AI Tools & Job Seekers for additional information.

Veterans

• Pennsylvania law (51 Pa. C.S. §7103) provides employment preference for qualified veterans for appointment to many state and local government jobs.

Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS)

• 711 (hearing and speech disabilities or other individuals).

Additional information

If you are contacted for an interview and need accommodations due to a disability, please discuss your request for accommodations with the interviewer in advance of your interview date.