Janitor
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- For the Scrubs character, see Janitor (Scrubs)
A janitor is a person who takes care of a building, such as a school, office building, or apartment block. Janitors are responsible primarily for cleaning, and often (though not always) some maintenance and security.
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Cleaning tech, They may also be required to receive training and licensing in various fields [e.g., Hazmat, CPR, Boiler Operations, etc.], depending on their employer and the specific nature of their job. In these respects a custodian may be considered to be different from a janitor.) In some settings janitors are called housekeepers or housekeeping staff and in others they are referred to as maintenance or maintenance staff. Institutions have also come up with a number of politically correct alternative job titles, including:
- Custodial technician
- Sanitation supervisor
- Domestic engineer
- Guest Service Associate (G.S.A.)
- Environmental Services Associate
- Care taker
- Industrial Floor Maintenance Sanitation Engineer (Rite Care tm)
- The Crew
- General cleaner
- Physical Plant & Planning
- Quality Control Engineer
- Routine Photocopier maintenance
[edit] Occupational tasks
Typical Cleaning tech often consists of the following tasks:
- Cleaning bathrooms
- Cleaning floors
- Cleaning carpeting
- Cleaning stainless steel and other special surfaces
- Clearing tables in lunch room
- Emptying trash and recycling bin
- Locking and unlocking buildings at the beginning and end of the day
- Stripping and waxing floors
[edit] Outsourcing
Cleaning is one of the most commonly outsourced services. Some of the reasons for this include:
- Basic cleaning tasks are standardised, with little variation among different enterprises.
- The nature of the job and required standard of performance can be clearly defined and specified in a contract, unlike more technical or professional jobs for which such specification is harder to develop.
- Many organizations which predominantly employ higher paid workers feel uncomfortable dealing with labour relations with low paid employees; by outsourcing, these labour relations issues are transferred to a contractor whose staff are comfortable and experienced in dealing with these issues, and their approach can benefit from economies of scale.
- If a cleaner is unavailable due to sickness or leave, a contractor which employs many cleaners can easily assign a substitute. A small organisation which employs one or a few cleaners directly will have much more trouble with this.
[edit] Median salaries per employer type (US)
- Federal government – US$ 30,000[citation needed]
- College/University – US$ 29,000[citation needed]
- Hospital – US$ 24,000[citation needed]
- School – US$ 22,200[citation needed]
- Non-profit organization – US$ 16,280[citation needed]
- Restaurant - US$ 16,000[citation needed]
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