The Custodial Worker 1 position with the Department of Human Services (DHS) offers an opportunity to support a clean and welcoming environment at the South Mountain Restoration Center. This role allows you to take pride in keeping living and work areas clean, sanitary, and attractive for residents and staff. Your efforts help create a positive atmosphere that everyone depends on each day. Join a team that values your dedication and attention to detail.
This position performs a wide range of cleaning and custodial tasks to maintain a safe, sanitary, and orderly environment throughout the South Mountain Restoration Center. The role supports daily operations by ensuring that assigned areas are cleaned, supplied, and cared for according to established procedures. As a Custodial Worker 1, you will perform the following duties:
- General Cleaning: Mop floors, dust surfaces, scrub areas, wash furniture, clean lavatories, and maintain carpets
- Linen Support: Prepare, deliver, and disinfect linen carts, tubs, racks, and related items
- Equipment Use: Operate custodial equipment by following instructions and using proper safety techniques
- Dining Care: Clean dining rooms, including tables, chairs, floors, window sills, walls, and doors
- Special Cleaning: Clean assistive devices, mattresses, lifts, wheelchairs, curtains, and other equipment as assigned
- Outdoor Upkeep: Sweep walks, remove snow, apply ice melt, and maintain building entrances
Interested in learning more? Additional details regarding this position can be found in the position description.
Work Schedule and Additional Information:
- Full-time employment, 37.5 hours per week
- Work hours are 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, with a 30-minute lunch. You will be scheduled rotating on and off duty days including weekends and 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 Requirements:
- You must be able to perform essential job functions.
Preferred Qualifications (not required):
- Willingness and ability to work in Franklin County, Pennsylvania
- Work 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, or buffing)
- Custodial or housekeeping work experience in a hospital, nursing home, correctional facility, fast food facility, restaurant, cafeteria, or school
- Work experience collecting and disposing of infectious waste into proper storage areas
- Work experience removing snow, trash, and debris from sidewalks and entrance ways
- Work experience using and mixing chemicals or solvents
- Work experience using manual or power equipment to mop, scrub, sweep, strip, wax, and buff floors
- Work experience in the following tasks: operating a floor scrubbing machine, using ladders to clean high areas, proper handling of cleaning chemicals, interacting with patients or residents, snow removal from walkways and entrances, changing light bulbs, cleaning furniture, mopping (wet or dry), and scrubbing
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.
How to Apply:
- 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.