Organizational Overview

At Brookhaven National Laboratory, Integrated Facility Management (IFM) Custodial Services strives to effectively serve the BNL community in a professional manner and to provide a safe, clean, and healthy environment in which to learn and work. It is our mission to build a cohesive work team to ensure customer satisfaction in all campus facilities.  We clean first for health and then for appearance. The Custodial Services Group is proud to do its part in making work environments safer, cleaner, and healthier, and we're excited about implementing this improved, more cost-effective system here at Brookhaven.

Position Description

The Integrated Facility Management Division is seeking a Custodian to join their team.  With our ongoing expansion of the cleaning process, we are promoting a safer, cleaner, healthier working environment across the campus. The program focuses on the health of the building occupants and the cleaning staff. The program prescribes standardized cleaning tools and environmentally preferable cleaning methods as part of responsible cleaning. The daily-use cleaning chemicals prescribed in the program have Green Seal Certification or are EPA-registered disinfectants. 

The cleaning methodology is a team-based approach to cleaning that produces predictable and repeatable—clean—results.  Each cleaning team has four specialists: Light Duty Cleaning, Restroom, Vacuum, and Utility. Each specialist has its own tasks, engineered tools, and specific routes and tasks. The work is balanced and timed for each team to complete its functions and move on to the next assigned space together.

The hours of operation/shift for this position are Monday to Friday 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. or 12:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. This position reports to the IFM Custodial Services Supervisor.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Monitoring, delivering, and restocking of custodial building supplies
• Mopping, vacuuming with backpack vacuum, and buffing various types of flooring (tile, carpet, terrazzo, etc.)
• Empty the trash and recycling bins, dust, clean telephones, spot clean horizontal and vertical surfaces, including high touch areas.
• Clean and disinfect restroom fixtures, floors, clean mirror and drinking fountains; fill dispensers, empty the restroom garbage
• Use of floor machines needed to strip, buff floors, and extract carpets
• Identify and report to management any needed repairs or maintenance issues and/or other deficiencies, such as plumbing, lighting, heating.
• The above list of duties is not all inclusive of every duty performed by this position, but it does include the major elements in the job.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• High School diploma or GED
• Good computer skills to support record keeping, email, training, facility management software, etc.
• One-year prior commercial cleaning experience in stripping and waxing floors, and carpet extracting.
• Ability to use and wear a backpack vacuum.
• Ability to operate commercial cleaning machines including ride-on scrubbers, buffers, and vacuums.
• Experience working in a team setting environment.
• Good customer service skills.
• Possess good written and verbal communication skills, including:
  • Ability to follow written instruction procedures, work orders, and similar documents.
  • Ability to sufficiently write/complete work orders and other required documents.
  • Ability to communicate verbally with customers, fellow workers and supervisors
• Able to work Monday- Friday 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. or 12:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
• Must follow safety policies and procedures and actively contribute to maintaining a safe and healthy work environment.
• Able to complete all the requirements of the Job Training Assessment
• Must have a telephone and must provide the number to BNL for callout and contact purposes
• Possess a valid NYS driver's license.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Experience using a maintenance management system (work order program)
• Experience with team cleaning

Environmental, Health, and Safety Requirements:

Must meet medical requirements of the position, including but not limited to:

• Standing, bending, and lifting.
• Able to do heavy lifting > 30 lbs.
• Able to climb portable ladders
• Able to work in warm environments
• Able to work around moving machinery
• Good physical coordination, dexterity and balance
• Able to use powered-operated hand-tools
• Exposure to cleaning chemicals, fumes, and dust.
• Ability to wear proper PPE such as safety glasses, safety shoes and hearing protection

Other Information:

The successful applicant will be required to join IBEW Local 2230 and maintain membership within 30 days of their start date.