Lead Custodian

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Akima, LLC

Posted 3 months ago

Full Time

St. Louis, Missouri

In Person

Smart Summary

Responsibilities

The Lead Custodian is responsible for maintaining clean and sanitary interior spaces, including restrooms, cafeterias, and common areas. Duties include waste removal, floor care, restocking supplies, and responding to emergency safety concerns.

Qualifications

You have at least one year of custodial experience, including with floor polishing equipment. You are able to pass a criminal history background check, drug screening, and maintain a government security clearance.

Must Have Skills for ATS

floor polishing equipment

criminal history information background check

drug screening

Job Description

The custodian maintains all interior spaces; break areas, restrooms, hallways, conference rooms, common areas, cafeteria spaces, and lactation rooms are maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. The custodian removes trash, recycling, and cardboard from the collection areas. The custodian moves the trash, recycling, and cardboard to the waste enclosure and operates the storage collection equipment to compact and condition the trash and recycling. A custodian ensures that their assignments are completed in a safe, sterile, proper, and timely manner. 

This position requires that the employee must successfully complete criminal history information background check and drug screening and be able to obtain and maintain a government security clearance. 


Responsibilities

  • Performs general janitorial duties.   
  • Cleaning vinyl, tile and other floors.
  • Vacuuming rugs and carpets.
  • Emptying trash and recycle cans. 
  • Dusting surfaces. 
  • Waxing floors.
  • Restocking of paper products (e. g. toilet tissue, towels, hygiene products). 
  • Wipe down and sanitization of cafeteria and break room tables. 
  • Ordering new cleaning supplies as needed. 
  • Maintaining a thorough inventory. 
  • Using equipment, commercial vacuums, floor buffers and carpet cleaners. 
  • Processing trash and recycling. 
  • Reports and issues workorders for items found needing repairs during their normal duties. 
  • Reports and issues work orders for burnt out lights and malfunctioning doors. 
  • Cleanup of potential blood born pathogen spills. 
  • Collection of trash and recycling from remote buildings and walk paths on site.   
  • Responds to emergency situations for the purpose of resolving immediate safety concerns (e.g., wet floors, overflowing toilets, human illness related spills). 
  •  Maintains tools and equipment for the purpose of ensuring the availability of equipment in safe, operating conditions.
  • Transports various items (e.g., tools, equipment, supplies, etc.) for the purpose of ensuring the availability of materials required at the job site. 
  • Perform all other duties as assigned. 

Qualifications

  • At least one year of experience in Custodial work including experience in floor polishing equipment.  
  • This position requires that the employee must successfully complete criminal history information background check and drug screening and be able to obtain and maintain a government security clearance. 

Physical Demands & Working Environment: 

  • The incumbent must be able to stand 33%, walk 33% and sit 33% of the work time. These requirements are necessary to operate ride on floor cleaning equipment. 
  • He/she must be able to lift/carry 50 pounds and push/pull 100 pounds, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, and handle, in order to load and unload materials and equipment.
  • Must be able to alert oneself to safety hazards and have a method of communication so those around can understand and respond. 
  • Working Conditions:

    • Mainly work inside. A portion of work will be done outdoors or between buildings.  

Job ID

2026-23275
Work Type

On-Site
Company Description

Work Where it Matters

Akima Global Logistics (AGL), an Akima company, is not just another operations contractor. As an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC), our mission and purpose extend beyond our exciting federal projects as we support our shareholder communities in Alaska.

At AGL, the work you do every day makes a difference in the lives of our 15,000 Iñupiat shareholders, a group of Alaska natives from one of the most remote and harshest environments in the United States.

For our shareholders, AGL provides support and employment opportunities and contributes to the survival of a culture that has thrived above the Arctic Circle for more than 10,000 years.

For our government customers, AGL delivers comprehensive supply, transportation, and maintenance services designed to optimize and maintain operations.

As an AGL employee, you will be surrounded by a challenging, yet supportive work environment that is committed to innovation and diversity, two of our most important values. You will also have access to our comprehensive benefits and competitive pay in addition to growth opportunities and excellent retirement options.

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Akima, LLC

Akima Global Services, LLC (AGS) specializes in compliant, innovative and efficient detention management and records and document management services. Achieving superior outcomes across complex federal missions requires deep domain expertise and an exceptional command of their systems, applications and processes. This mandate is our mission at AGS. From managing the safety and security requirements of a Service Processing Center (SPC) through automating workflow at this nation’s central records archive to serving thousands of meals a day to America’s midshipmen, AGS and its strategic partners continually exceed the most stringent performance metrics in some of today’s most complex and demanding federal environments. ISO-9001:2008 Quality Management System compliant and driven by escalating standards of quality and service, look to AGS for the transformative processes that reduce costs, mitigate risk and continually improve program performance.
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