Custodian Lead University Housing

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University Housing Facilities is looking for Custodian Leads to join our Team!

Custodian Leads assist in keeping University Housing spaces safe and clean for residents staff and guests. They also assist in coordinating tasks providing leadership and assisting with training for new staff members. We are a fast-paced organization with high quality standards and work with residents students staff and guests on the UW-Madison campus.

We pride ourselves on providing a great result for our customers and strive to be the place where everyone wants to live and work. Apply today!

Custodian Leads at University Housing work together with their teams to help keep spaces welcoming safe and clean for residents staff and guests. As a Custodian Lead in University Housing you will:

• Communicate with residents and guests to address needs and service requests

• Complete work in occupied or vacant residential common area and/or dining spaces

• Demonstrate and role model exceptional customer service

• Create promote and participate in a collaborative team environment

• Maintain and implement prescribed cleaning standards

• Provide support and assist as needed in the implementation of plans and procedures in the event of an emergency

• Communicate in English via radio written instruction and in person with staff and supervisors

• Assist with resident move in and out operations

• Perform snow removal tasks on community walkways and stairs.

• Monitor and communicate the performance of systems and staff within facilities

Work Schedule:

• Multiple vacancies may be available

• Typical scheduled shifts are between 5:00am - 4:00pm Monday through Friday 8-hour shifts for total of 40 hours per week. Some positions may include occasional weekend shifts as assigned.

Work schedule will be set with selected finalist(s) at time of offer. Schedule alterations as operations and position expectations demand.

University Housing Facilities provides a great work environment with supervisors who care about each individual on their team. As a part of UW-Madison we also offer excellent UW benefits like competitive insurances and generous paid time off professional development opportunities and the State of Wisconsin retirement pension plan.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Prepares services and/or maintains residence hall and dining facilities for residents and guests

• Performs light maintenance duties

• Schedules monitors and communicates with staff and assists with basic training

• Monitors and secures facility interior and exterior entrances and reports issues to appropriate entities

• Assists residents and guests with event set up and take down

• Documents and reports repairs violations and pest control needs

• Responds to facility emergency and hazardous situations and escalates incidents according to established policies and procedures

• Maintains organization of supply areas and equipment documents inventory and requests additional supplies as needed

• Maintains clean and clear walkways to ensure they are free of debris litter snow and ice

• Utilizes basic equipment and supplies to clean assigned facility areas and remove waste and recyclables

Department:

Division of University Housing University Housing Facilities

Housing Facilities is part of the Division of University Housing at the University of WisconsinMadison. Our team is responsible for the full spectrum of two distinct facilities operations which include housekeeping mechanical maintenance infrastructure repairs and renewal and longterm capital planning for both undergraduate students and graduate students and their families living with us. As a student service organization Housing Facilities advances the universitys mission by delivering safe well-maintained living and learning environments.

The Residence Halls consisting of 30 buildings and 2 million square feet houses approximately 8000 undergraduate students during the academic year and welcomes more than 18000 conference and program guests each addition to living spaces our operations support a wide range of programs and functions including classrooms office spaces dining and culinary operations marketplace venues meeting rooms and event spaces.

University Apartments provides housing to an average of 2500 residents in 1240 apartments serving a diverse community of graduate students staff and their families. The University Apartments community is located on over 80 acres of greenspace and also includes a large community center with a Housing-operated licensed early childhood education program.

While most of our front-line staff and supervisors are hired with a primary unit location to serve residents and guests specific to their role our facilities team is committed to remaining flexible enough to support each other and our operations as needed throughout the year.

Compensation:

The starting hourly wage is $18.36 or higher based on qualifications with a competitive retirement and benefits package including vacation holidays and paid time off. Benefits information can be found at ( currently in the Custodian title at UW-Madison may earn an additional $1.00 per hour from their current hourly rate. This would be applied in cases where the hourly rate plus $1.00 would exceed $18.36.

University Staff also earn additional money when working at night (6:00pm to 6:00am) and on weekends (Saturday and Sunday). Additional $2.50/hour for nighttime work on weekdays up to $2.50/hour for daytime weekend work and up to $3.30/hour for nighttime weekend work.

Current UW-Madison employees may be eligible to be hired up to their current rate of compensation based on qualifications.

Required Qualifications:

• English Proficiency with the ability to speak read write and understand verbal instructions

• 6 months of custodial and/or cleaning experience within an academic commercial or other related environment
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Leadership experience

• Drivers License Valid and Meets UW Risk Management Standards (required for some positions)

Education:

High School diploma preferred

How to Apply:

Please submit a resume within the online application system. There will be only one attachment field; you must upload all your documents in the attachment field. We are only able to consider completed application materials submitted by the deadline date.

Candidates who apply for this position may be considered for other or future vacancies within this title including those which may have a different work schedule and/or requirements from this vacancy.

Additional Information:

This position has been identified as a position of trust with access to vulnerable selected candidate will be required to pass an initial criminal background check to be eligible for employment and then every four years thereafter.

Please note that successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States a lawful permanent resident a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment.

University Housing may communicate with you about your application status using a text messaging service. To opt-out please reply STOP to text messages received or contact University Housing HR at or . Message and data rates may apply.

Contact Information:

University Housing Human Resources

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Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength creativity and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity culture background experience status abilities and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching research outreach and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students faculty and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal OpportunityEmployer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to including but not limited to race color religion sex sexual orientation national origin age pregnancy disability or status as a protected veteran and other bases as defined by federal regulations and UW System policies. We promote excellence by acknowledging skills and expertise from all backgroundsand encourage all qualified individuals to apply. For more information regarding applicant and employee rights and to view federal and state required postings visit the Human Resources Workplace Poster website.

To request a disability or pregnancy-related accommodationfor any step in the hiring process (e.g. application interview pre-employment testing etc.) please contact the Divisional Disability Representative (DDR)in the division you are applying make your request as soon as possible to help the university respond most effectively to you.

Employment may require a criminal background check. It may also require your references to answer questions regarding misconduct including sexual violence and sexual harassment.

The University of Wisconsin System will not reveal the identities of applicants who request confidentiality in writing except that the identity of the successful candidate will be released. See Wis. Stat. sec. 19.36(7).

The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report contains current campus safety and disciplinary policies crime statistics for the previous 3 calendar years and on-campus student housing fire safety policies and fire statistics for the previous 3 calendar years. UW-Madison will provide a paper copy upon request; please contact the University of Wisconsin Police Department.