Posted:
December 18, 2024
Expires:
February 16, 2025
Category:
Maintenance/Trades
Terms:
Part-Time Employee
Education:
Undergraduate Degree
Send applications or inquiries to: hr@diocesefwsb.org
Queen of Peace Catholic Church
4508 Vistula Road, Mishawaka, Indiana 46544
Job Description for Custodian/Groundskeeper
Major Areas of Responsibility:
- Completes tasks of regular cleaning of church, parish office, and school facilities.
- Assists with physical set up of parish and school events as needed.
- Assists with landscape maintenance including mowing, weeding, trimming as needed.
- Assists with general exterior maintenance of buildings.
- Participates in the wider mission of the parish through helping to provide a clean, safe, and well-kept facility in which parish activities can take place, while demonstrating Christian charity and positivity.
Qualifications:
- Must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience:
- High school diploma or GED equivalent.
- Must have demonstrated experience working independently.
- Experience in operation and maintenance of a variety of custodial equipment, including commercial grade vacuums, shampooers, extractors, auto scrubbers, and burnishers/ buffers is preferred.
- Must have ability to perform a variety of minor maintenance/repairs.
- Works well with others from diverse backgrounds.
- Must have ability to understand and follow oral and written directions.
- Able to establish and maintain effective relationships with those encountered in the course of the work.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
Physical Demands:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.
- The employee is regularly required to use hands to fingers, handle, feel or operate objects, tools or controls and reach with hands and arms.
- The position requires considerable physical effort and is more than 70% of the job functions. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
- The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally over 50 pounds.
Work Environment:
- The work environment varies and includes standard office, maintenance shop, church interior, school building and church/school grounds settings. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate with occasional loud noises.
- The work involves moderate exposure to unusual elements, such as extreme temperatures, dirt, dust, fumes and unpleasant orders.
- The work environment involves some exposure to hazards and physical risks, which require following basic safety precautions.
The Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend is a not-for-profit religious corporation empowered under Canon Law to fulfill the spiritual, educational, and charitable mission of the Catholic Church in the Northeastern portion of the State of Indiana.
