Join Racine County’s new Youth Development & Care Center as a Facilities Custodian and help create a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for everyone who walks through our doors. In this role, you’ll take pride in keeping our building and grounds in top condition by performing daily cleaning, light maintenance, and upkeep tasks. Your work will make a real difference in supporting the well-being of youth, staff, and visitors.
Why You’ll Love Working Here:At Racine County, you’ll be part of a supportive team that values respect, responsibility, and community. We offer meaningful work that contributes to positive change, along with opportunities for growth and development. Enjoy a stable position with great benefits, a positive work culture, and the satisfaction of knowing your efforts help keep our center running smoothly and safely.
- Properly maintain clean and sanitary conditions at the YDCC.
- Perform custodial duties throughout the facility, including but not limited to: sweeping, mopping, and scrubbing hallways, stairs, offices, break rooms, garage areas and restrooms; cleaning, stripping, waxing, and buffing floors; shampooing carpets; emptying recycling and garbage containers, filling paper and soap dispensers, and changing light bulbs.
- Perform general cleaning in office areas including dusting, vacuuming, emptying baskets, washing wood and painted walls, furniture, ceiling vents, cubicles, blinds and windows.
- Perform grounds maintenance duties including cleaning snow/ice and debris from sidewalks, parking lots and interior courtyards; cleaning outside entryways and overhangs of garbage and debris; mowing lawn, trimming shrubbery, and cultivating flowers.
- Replenish cleaning supplies on a daily basis such as towels, soaps, and toilet paper in restrooms throughout the Care Center.
- Complete an inventory of storeroom supplies monthly.
- Perform special cleaning assignments on a weekly basis such as washing and cleaning windows and shower areas in the living units.
- In emergency situations, clean spills, including disinfecting and sterilizing where required.
- Read all labels on chemicals throughout the Care Center and determine appropriate cleaning chemical use according to state law, prior to mixing and using, to avoid hazardous health conditions.
- Maintain the physical needs of the facility daily to insure a safe, efficiently operating, and attractive environment.
- Perform other related duties as directed.
- High School Diploma or GED.
- Experience in custodial work preferred.
- Prompt and regular attendance.
- Able to perform indoor and outdoor duties while standing and walking.
- Able to perform duties while bending, stooping, pushing and pulling.
- Able to lift objects weighing up to fifty (50) pounds.
This description has been prepared to assist in properly evaluating various classes of responsibilities, skills, working conditions, etc., present in the classification. It is intended to indicate the kinds of tasks and characteristic levels of work difficulty that will be required of positions that will be given this title. It is not intended as a complete list of specific duties and responsibilities. Nor is it intended to limit or in any way modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under his/her supervision. The use of an expression or illustration describing duties shall not be held to exclude other duties not mentioned that are of a similar kind and level of difficulty.
