Custodian

Project Renewal is a leading non-profit organization with the mission of building supportive communities where people achieve dignity and independence, renewing their lives with health, homes, and jobs. Our comprehensive and integrated 24/7 programs are designed to offer the holistic care our clients need. With a staff of 950+ and an annual budget of $140 million, Project Renewal is one of the larger social service nonprofits in New York City.

Title: Custodian

Program: Canopy House Women’s Shelter

Hourly Rate: $20.079

Program Description:

Canopy House provides 171 emergency shelter beds for homeless women diagnosed with mental illness and/or substance use disorders. Our comprehensive services include case management, individual and group counseling, recreational activities, occupational therapy, mental health services and housing placement assistance. Canopy House is a unique facility in that it is co-located with a supportive housing program that occupies the top 15 floors of the building and offers a street facing Article 28 clinic on the first floor dedicated to providing primary and behavioral health care services.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The essential duties of the Custodian include, but are not limited to, the following activities:

• Performs janitorial work, including power-washing, making repairs, replacing plumbing fittings, wiping down lighting fixtures (requiring a ladder), replacing light bulbs, and waxing floors, mopping, sweeping, and operating a buffing machine.
• Performs garbage duties, including dumpster maintenance, metal sorting, and breaking down boxes for weekly pick up.
• Maintains rubber tiles on shelter stairs.
• Complete all work orders in a timely manner, while providing detailed information regarding the task(s) performed, along with all prescribed/pertinent equipment information.
• Maintains proper levels of materials/supplies for areas assigned, to ensure the timely, effective, and efficient completion of necessary tasks.
• Should be aware of possible exposure, while performing duties, to unsanitary conditions, unpleasant odors and hazardous concentrated chemicals, and be prepared to respond with the applicable protocols for ensuring the safety of self, staff, and clients.
• Performs specific duties, depending upon the floor assigned.
• Performs other janitorial/custodial duties as assigned by supervisory staff.

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Bilingual or multilingual, a plus

Certificates and Credentials:

• Fire Guard certification F-02 or Fire Safety Coordinator F-80

Physical Activities:

While performing the duties of this position, the Assistant Building Manager must be able to walk between the six floors of the facility to meet building needs. The Assistant Building Manager also walks the exterior of the facility to ensure that a proper appearance is being maintained. Furthermore, the Assistant Building Manager must stand to talk to staff, sit for extended periods of time at the computer, bend, reach, or squat to get records from the files or when addressing building needs, climb and work from ladders of 10 to 12 feet in height, and lift a minimum of 30lbs.

Preferred Skills:

• • Team Building: Ability to work with staff to enhance their skills; ability to foster, through demonstration, team spirit, enabling staff to overcome the challenges of providing needed services to a special client population.
  • Leadership: Demonstrated ability to manage and motivate staff to accomplish stated program goals and objectives while developing their individual and group skills.
  • Organizational: The ability to assess work requests, creates order of priorities, and assigns work to staff and monitor its timely completion.
  • Communication: Excellent oral, writing, and listening skills.
  • Interpersonal: An ability to interface with clients as well as all levels of staff.
  • Computer: Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Outlook, Word, and Excel.

Project Renewal is an equal opportunity employer.  Its long-standing policy has been to embrace the equality of opportunity for all employees and applicants without regard to actual or perceived race, color, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, religion or creed, gender (see separately issued Gender Discrimination policy for more detail), physical or mental disability, age (18 and over), military status, arrest record, marital status, domestic partnership status, genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic, sexual orientation, status as a victim or witness of domestic violence, sex offenses or stalking, unemployment status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws.