Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
Keep buildings in clean and orderly condition. Perform heavy cleaning duties, such as cleaning floors, shampooing rugs, washing walls and glass, and removing rubbish. Duties may include tending furnace and boiler, performing routine maintenance activities, notifying management of need for repairs, and cleaning snow or debris from sidewalk.
At a Glance
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners earns a median of $35,930/yr with +2.0% projected growth. Typical entry: No formal educational credential. Top skills: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office software.
$35,930/yr
+2.0%
351
No formal educational credential
Skills & Requirements
Knowledge (1)
Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
Abilities (2)
The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
Technology (4)
Work Activities (15)
Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
Performing general physical activities includes doing activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.
Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
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