Janitorial Assistant en Imagine Children's Museum

Description

Position Summary:

The Janitorial Assistant helps keep the Children’s Museum clean, safe, and welcoming for all visitors. This position supports the day-to-day cleanliness of exhibits, restrooms, classrooms, offices, and public spaces. The ideal candidate enjoys working around families and children, takes pride in maintaining a positive environment, and contributes to the museum’s mission.

Essential Functions & Major Responsibilities:

• Perform general cleaning duties, including sweeping, mopping, dusting, and vacuuming.
• Clean and restock restrooms and public areas throughout the day.
• Assist in maintaining public spaces by wiping down surfaces and disinfecting high-touch areas.
• Empty trash and recycling bins and transport waste to designated disposal areas.
• Set up and clean up after museum events, programs, and parties as assigned.
• Monitor cleaning supplies and notify the Assistant Managers of Exhibits & Facilities when restocking is needed.
• Assist with minor maintenance tasks, such as changing light bulbs or reporting facility repairs.
• Follow safety protocols and maintain compliance with museum and state safety standards.
• Support the museum team by ensuring a clean, organized, and child-friendly environment at all times.

Requirements

Position Requirements:

• Comfortable working around children and families in a busy, interactive environment.
• Dependable, detail-oriented, and proactive in identifying cleaning or maintenance needs.
• Willingness to work a flexible schedule, including weekends and occasional evenings.

Education and/or Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
• 1 year of janitorial, custodial, or housekeeping experience is desirable but not required. 

Supervisory Responsibility:

None

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee works in a typical interactive exhibit environment with moderate noise levels.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This position is regularly required to: 

• Regularly required to sit, stand, and walk for long periods of time, climb ladders, and stairs. 
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. 
• Independent body mobility to access a variety of spaces (high, small, awkward, etc.) with exhibit elements of varying height. 
• Ability to bend, carry, reach to the side, front, and overhead, push pull, walk, stand, twist and squat, grab, squeeze are repetitive motions required of the position. 
• Use hands to feel and manipulate tools and materials and reach with hands and arms. 
• Some exposure to hazards or physical risks which require basic safety precautions and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE.) 
• Both indoor and outdoor exhibit spaces – may be exposed to moderate weather conditions. 
• Regularly exposed to moderate noise in and around exhibits. Occasionally exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting and uncomfortable. 

This is a part-time position, onsite in Everett. The schedule is Wednesday-Sunday from 11am-4pm. The pay is $21.97 an hour.  All part-time employees receive accrued sick time, anniversary appreciation day, free museum membership, discounts, and other museum perks!