Job Details

Floater Job Description

A Floater is responsible for keeping the workplace clean, organized, and disinfected. The requirements listed below are responsibilities and skill requirements.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Clean the interior of buildings, including floors, carpets, rugs, windows and walls, and general tasks.
• Vacuum, sweep, and mop floors. (Offices, rooms, hallways, lobbies, lounges, elevators, stairs, locker rooms, and other work areas).
• Cleaning stains from chairs and upholstered furniture.
• Keep furniture free of dust. As well as lighting fixtures, marble surfaces, and moldings.
• Leaving empty trash cans, as well as cleaning trash cans and ashtrays.
• Disinfect commonly used items such as desks, door handles, office tools, and phones.
• Clean and maintain restrooms, as well as replenish supplies in this area and where required.
• Washing and cleaning windows and mirrors.
• Empty trash and recycling containers to the disposal area.
• Clean trash and snow from sidewalks if necessary.
• Maintain the inventory of cleaning supplies in stock and, if applicable, request missing materials from your supervisors.
• Notify supervisors of unsafe conditions or conditions requiring maintenance.
• Maintain a cleaning chart indicating the areas that were cleaned and inspected.
• Follow safety and precaution rules.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Close doors at the end of the night shift.

Competencies: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Attendance/Punctuality - Is consistently at work and on time.
• Dependability - Follows instructions, responds to management direction; Takes responsibility for own actions; Keeps commitments; Commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals; Completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan
• Safety and Security - Observes safety and security procedures; Determines appropriate action beyond guidelines; Reports potentially unsafe conditions; Uses equipment and materials properly

Work Environment:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, outdoor weather conditions, and risk of electrical shock and vibration.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate