• Job Description

  Req#: 5183612

  Facility Assistant

  Mesa Public Schools is an award-winning district and voted Best Place to Work in Mesa. With over 9,000 employees, we are the largest school district in Arizona. Families have sent generations of students through our schools, as we are the premier educational choice in Arizona.

  Base Rate:	$17.53
  Performance Pay:	Available annually
  New hire experience:	1% of the base hourly rate granted for each year of verified like experience (within ten years) beyond the requirement, up to a ten-year maximum
  New hire education:	1% of the base hourly rate awarded for an AA or higher degree if not required for the position
  Class/Calendar:	A13, 10.75 months
  Hours:	Full-time (40 hours per week)
  FSLA:	Non-Exempt
  Benefits:	Sick leave, holidays, matched retirement, health and life insurance

  OVERVIEW:

  To perform custodial functions for school including specific work assignments; to act as the principal’s liaison with the night lead custodian.

  QUALIFICATIONS:

  • High School diploma or equivalent preferred
  • Minimum one year custodial experience
  • Knowledge of custodial equipment, supplies and cleaning procedures
  • Ability to effectively communicate (written and verbal)
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective and cooperative working relationships with administrator and staff
  • Ability to organize, prioritize and plan work tasks
  • Ability to follow and implement directives
  • Ability to perform heavy manual labor

  DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Perform custodial functions for school including specific custodial work assignments
  • Implement instructions from principal
  • Assist principal with safety, energy conservation and security procedures
  • Provide input regarding the summer maintenance of school
  • Coordinate work orders generated at school site
  • Generate work requests from maintenance
  • Order supplies
  • Act as principal’s liaison with the night lead custodian
  • Regular and on-time attendance required
  • Assist with start-up and closing of school
  • Regular and on-time attendance required
  • May work special events at school
  • Keep record of extra time for student fund events and overtime
  • Assist other personnel as may be required for the purpose of supporting them in the completion of their work activities
  • Frequent lifting, carrying, pulling, running, and/or throwing
  • Must be able to push/pull up to 50lbs and lift/carry up to 50lbs
  • Occasional climbing, balancing, and/or use of stairs
  • Frequently required to stoop, kneel, bend, crouch and/or crawl
  • Continuous use of upper extremities for reaching, handling, fingering and/or feeling
  • Must be able to speak in conversations or other talking; hear conversations and other sounds; and have close, distance, color and peripheral vision and depth perception
  • Position requires continuous standing and/or walking
  • Occasional exposure to extreme cold, heat, wet and/or humid conditions
  • Occasional exposure to noises and vibrations
  • Occasional exposure to mechanical, explosives, chemicals, radiant energy, burns, blood born pathogens, and/or contagious diseases
  • Occasional exposure to fumes, mists, odors, gases, dust

  SUPERVISION

  Site Administrator

  AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ORGANIZATION: The district does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex or gender, sexual orientation, disability, age or marital status.

• About the company

  Mesa Public Schools is the largest public school district in the state of Arizona.

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