Job Summary:
This position is responsible for 24/7 coordination and administration of the campus custodial operations including staffing, scheduling and attendance as well as oversight of all supplies (inventory and replenishment). This role ensures that all custodial services are delivered efficiently and effectively, maintaining a clean and safe environment for students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Recruits, interviews, hires, and trains new staff
- Assigns staff to work areas and manages daily work schedules
- Oversees the daily workflow of direct reports
- Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations and feedback
- Manages time off requests for staff
- Timesheet review and processing
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Coordinates project work
- Inspects work areas and assignments daily
- Maintains inventory and requisition supplies and equipment
- Monitors daily recycling and trash disposal
- Other duties as assigned
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively
- Ability to supervise a large and diverse team
- Familiarity with custodial equipment, cleaning techniques, and safety regulations
- Knowledge of chemicals, floor care experience, and carpet care
- Must have knowledge in union contract negotiations
- Computer skills in Microsoft Word
Education and Experience:
- High school diploma / GED
- Minimum of five years of experience in custodial operations in a supervisory role
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Occasionally lifting 50 lbs or less
- Frequently lifting 25 lbs or more
- Typically standing or walking
- Typically bending, crouching, stooping
- Climbing ladders, scaffolds
- Typically running, climbing
- Using tools requiring high dexterity
- Outdoor exposure to weather
- Exposure to chemicals
- Exposure to moving machinery
- Exposure to unpleasant odors
- High noise environment
- High dust, dirt, grease environment
- Must hold valid driver’s license
- May have an alternative work schedule
- May be required to be on-call
About the University
Delaware Valley University (DelVal) is a private, comprehensive, nonprofit university educating students with a curriculum that emphasizes and requires experiential learning. Located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, about 30 miles north of Philadelphia, the University offers 28 undergraduate majors in business, arts and sciences, and agricultural and environmental sciences; 12 master's degrees; and a doctorate in education. Founded in 1896, DelVal has been cited by the National Society for Experiential Education as having the country's top experiential learning program, by Princeton Review as one of the best colleges in the Northeast, and by College Factual as having one of the top 20 animal science programs in the country.
Delaware Valley University is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce.
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