Custodial Worker 1

Start a career where your work helps create a clean, welcoming, and safe environment for honored veterans. As a Custodial Worker 1 with the Southwestern Veterans' Center, you will take pride in keeping living and common areas fresh and comfortable for residents and staff. This role lets you build dependable cleaning skills while supporting a meaningful mission. Join a dedicated team that values quality, care, and teamwork every day!

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This position focuses on maintaining an immaculate, organized, and secure environment through detailed cleaning routines and support tasks, including moving and lifting heavy furniture. As a Custodial Worker 1, you will perform the following duties:

• Deep Cleaning: Perform deep cleaning in resident rooms, offices, common areas, medical spaces, and public locations throughout the facility
• General Cleaning: Complete daily cleaning tasks such as mopping, dusting, polishing, scrubbing, sweeping, and buffing a wide range of surfaces and furnishings
• Sanitation Duties: Clean and sanitize all restrooms and maintain hygienic conditions in high-traffic areas
• Waste Management: Empty waste containers, handle recycling materials, and dispose of infectious waste in proper storage areas
• Supply Tasks: Restock soap, paper products, cleaning chemicals, and other supplies to keep areas prepared and functional
• Room Preparation: Clean, organize, and rearrange resident rooms before new occupants arrive

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

Work Schedule and Additional Information:

• Full-time employment (7.5 hours per day; 37.5 hours per week)
• Work hours are 6:30 AM to 2:30 PM (1st shift), with a 30-minute lunch. In this role, you will work every other weekend and alternating holidays.
• 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.

QUALIFICATIONS
Additional Requirement:

• You must be able to perform essential job functions.

Preferred Qualifications (not required):

• Willing and able to work in Allegheny County, PA
• Able to work 6:30 AM to 2:30 PM
• Experience as a custodian, janitor, or cleaning person (Experience might include such things as cleaning restrooms; cleaning resident rooms, offices or public areas; mopping, scrubbing, dusting, sweeping, buffing, etc.)
• Experience interacting with patients or residents while cleaning in patient/resident rooms or a dining room setting
• Experience cleaning bodily fluids and disposing infectious waste into proper storage areas

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.

• 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. To learn more about employment preferences for veterans, go to www.pa.gov/agencies/employment/how-to-apply.html and click on Veterans.

Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS):

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

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.

The Commonwealth is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. The Commonwealth values inclusion as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most qualified people to serve the citizens of Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, union membership, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, AIDS or HIV status, disability, or any other categories protected by applicable federal or state law. All diverse candidates are encouraged to apply.