Cleaning Services Team Member
About Our Opportunity
As part of the KES Cleaning Services Team, the Cleaning Services Team Member will perform a variety of cleaning activities across the beautiful KES campus. This role ensures safe, sanitary, comfortable, orderly, and satisfying surroundings for students, employees, and the public.Primary responsibilities include:
- Cleaning assigned areas, furnishings, and fixtures according to established procedures
- Cleaning floors with dry mops, wet mops, sweeping, and vacuuming
- Cleaning and disinfecting washrooms and replenishing supplies
- Emptying and cleaning garbages regularly
- Dusting low and high places
- Wiping and disinfect a variety of surfaces
- Handling various cleaning products, chemicals, and tools
- Straightening and rearranging furniture as directed
- Assisting with room setups, events, or activities as required
- Performing emergency cleaning services when accidents occur
Qualifications and Requirements
- Experience with housekeeping or commercial cleaning; or a combination of related training and experience
- Willingness to perform routine, repetitive tasks on a continuous basis
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and prioritize own work
- Comfortable handling cleaning and sanitation products, procedures and techniques
- Cooperates with other employees and enjoys working around young people
- Demonstrates respectful, inclusive, and appropriate behaviour with staff and students
- Must maintain a consistent and good attendance record in accordance with school policy
- Successful clearance of a Criminal Record Check
Work Conditions
- Requires moderate to high level physical effort- including walking, standing, lifting up to 20lbs, bending, kneeling, reaching, pushing, and pulling
- May stand on step stool or small stepladder to reach high places
- Requires a moderate level of manual dexterity for all aspects of fine cleaning
What We Offer
- Position Type: Casual (with the potential opportunity to move to full time)
- Salary: $18.00 per hour
- Start date: Immediate
To apply, please send a resume and cover letter expressing your interest to the attention of Jenn Shaw, Director, HR and Diversity at jshaw@kes.ns.ca
King’s-Edgehill School is located in Mi'kma'ki, the unceded ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq People.
