Porter County Department Of Parks & Recreation
Custodian Worker part-time
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Important information
Contract type:
Permanent
Salary:
$17 – $20 / hour
Location:
Valparaiso, IN, USA
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
23 October 2026
What they need
POSITION: Custodian
DEPARTMENT: Facilities
WORK SCHEDULE: Monday Thru Friday: 3:30 PM – 11:00 PM "28 hr" a week
JOB CATEGORY: LTC (Labor, Trades & Crafts)
STATUS: part-time
To perform this position successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed in this document are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Incumbent serves as Custodian for the Commissioners, responsible for maintaining clean building.
DUTIES:
Maintain floors, including dust and wet mopping, stripping, preparing and waxing floors, and vacuuming carpets. Periodically moves office furniture to maintain floors or to rearrange as requested.
Clean all assigned areas, such as closets, meeting rooms, hallways, stair wells, entrances, elevators, and break areas, including, but not limited to, dusting, polishing furniture, walls, doors, benches and woodwork, cleaning floor mats, changing light bulbs, washing blinds, windows and window sills.
Clean and disinfects assigned bathrooms, including, but not limited to disinfecting and cleaning urinals, toilets and sinks, checking and refilling paper products and soap dispensers, washing walls and mirrors, sweeping and mopping floors and emptying trash cans.
Empty trash cans daily, including shredding paper, carrying trash to pick-up site, inserting clean liners and periodically cleaning trash cans as needed.
Delivers paper supplies to offices as requested.
Perform related duties as assigned.
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:
High school diploma or GED.
Working knowledge of and ability to make practical application of basic janitorial and sanitation requirements for assigned areas of responsibility.
Working knowledge of applicable safety practices and procedures with ability to take proper precautions and ensure safety of self and others.
Ability to supervise night shift personnel, making work assignments, ensuring proper completion of duties, providing corrective instruction, and resolving problems as needed.
Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions, work orders and product application directions, such as cleaning solutions.
Ability to operate all assigned tools and equipment, including mops, brooms, vacuum cleaners, screw drivers, floor buffer and paper shredder.
Ability to physically perform assigned duties, including walking/standing for long periods, lifting/carrying objects weighing 25-50 pounds, crouching, kneeling, bending, reaching, climbing ladders and stairs, pushing/pulling/handling/grasping objects.
Ability to follow all County personnel policies and rules, and work alone and with others in a team environment with minimum supervision.
Ability to effectively communicate with co-workers, other County personnel and visitors, including being sensitive to professional ethics, gender, cultural diversities and disabilities.
Ability to occasionally work extended, weekend and/or evening hours, according to shift assignment.
RESPONSIBILITY:
Incumbent performs simple, repetitive duties according to specific instructions and guidelines, but with minimum direct supervision. Incumbent’s duties require minimum accuracy and skill to prevent damage to tools and equipment and prevent injury to self and others.
PERSONAL WORK RELATIONSHIPS:
Incumbent maintains frequent contact with co-workers and other County personnel for the purpose of exchanging information and supervising personnel.
Incumbent reports directly to Facilities Director.
PHYSICAL EFFORT:
Incumbent’s duties involve walking/standing for long periods, lifting/carrying objects weighing 25-50 pounds, crouching/kneeling, bending, reaching, climbing ladders and stairs, pushing/pulling/handling/grasping objects.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Incumbent performs a majority of duties in County buildings or outdoors and is frequently exposed to dust, slippery surfaces, adverse weather conditions, moving parts, power machinery and potentially hazardous cleaning materials. Incumbent periodically works on high ladders and stairs. Safety precautions must be followed at all times to avoid injury to self and others. Incumbent occasionally works extended, weekend and/or evening hours, according to shift assignment.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $17.00 - $20.00 per hour
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Required)
Shift availability:
- Night Shift (Required)
Work Location: In person
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