Supply & Project Coordinator

Swarthmore College is a highly selective liberal arts college located in the suburbs of Philadelphia, whose mission combines academic rigor with social responsibility. Swarthmore has a strong institutional commitment to inclusive excellence and nondiscrimination in its educational program and employment practices and encourages candidates who will further advance the goal of fostering a diverse and inclusive community. As one of the nation’s finest institutions of higher learning, Swarthmore College is global in outlook and draws students from around the nation and world. The 425‐acre campus is a designated arboretum, complete with gardens, rolling lawns, a creek, wooded hills, and hiking trails in the Crum Woods.

The opportunity:

The Supply & Project Coordinator provides services to ensure a clean and environmentally healthy campus. Tasks performed include safe driving, purchasing, and picking up supplies, supply inventory, par-levels, zero-waste initiatives, and projects, faculty housing duties, daily trash removal; cleaning and disinfecting bathroom fixtures and furniture; dusting, vacuuming, and cleaning both carpeted and non-carpeted floors and mats; maintaining bathroom paper and other supplies; helping supervisors communicating with employees about daily work assignments, assisting with training, and assisting with customer service issues.

Essential Responsibilities

Supply and Project Coordination

• Deliver and pick up supplies. Serve as the primary driver of the supply van.
• Assist supervisor with small orders that require purchasing,  pick up, and delivery. 
• Perform zero-waste initiatives (2 hours per week), small signage repairs and replacement, and placing and lining waste bins. Remove stains and soil from waste bins and inform supervisor when bins should be replaced.
• Responsible for 15% of faculty housing projects. Cleans houses when faculty and staff move out, including general maintenance and painting.

General Environmental Services

• Takes responsibility for cleaning areas as assigned by supervisors, including filling in for coworkers in cases of illness, vacation, etc., to ensure all areas of campus are kept clean.
• Daily, collects non-hazardous waste, compostables, recyclables, and e-waste, empties into designated receptacles, and returns containers to initial locations. Removes litter from building and furniture surfaces in common-use areas and from floors in private or assigned areas (e.g., offices, research areas). 10%
• Cleans and disinfects drinking fountains, wash basins, toilets, urinals, showers,

and adjacent surfaces, as well as surfaces of furniture, fixtures, walls, partitions, doors, etc. Removes scale, scum, mineral deposits, rust stains, etc., from the insides of toilets and urinals. Cleans floor drains, including removing corrosion and tarnish, and fills with germicidal detergent to prevent the escape of sewer gas.

• Checks and refills toilet paper, hand soap, paper towels, and toilet seat cover dispensers; removes spillage from soap dispensers and adjacent surfaces. Reports equipment problems (e.g., leaky faucets) to the supervisor in order to initiate repairs.
• Using cloths or vacuum attachments, remove dust, lint, litter, dry soil, etc. from the surfaces of chairs, telephones, lamps, tables, cabinets, shelves, ledges, window sills, fire extinguishers, countertops, walls, door frames and sills, pictures, partitions, rails, and other surfaces not considered specialty equipment (e.g., computers, test equipment, typewriters). Spot cleans, as necessary, to remove fingerprints, marks, streaks, tape, etc.
• Cleans erasable pen writing boards and chalkboards and removes chalk dust from chalk trays and erasers.
• Uses a wet/dry vacuum to remove moisture and a carpet vacuum to remove dry soil from carpeted entrance mats. Removes stains and gummy soil. Shakes, hoses with water, and/or vacuums non-carpeted mats.
• Uses dust mop, push broom, and other tools to remove soil and litter from non-carpeted floors. Uses a mop and detergent solution to remove spills and obvious soil from the floor, including corners and abutments, to ensure they are free of streaks, litter, and spots. Damp mops as necessary, scrubbing those areas where soil cannot be removed by mopping. Sets up caution signs to provide sufficient warning that floors are wet.
• Maintains work closets in a clean and organized fashion. Maintains cleaning and other supplies (e.g., paper towels, toilet paper); notifies supervisor when replacements are needed; checks supplies as delivered to ensure correct types, amounts, etc.
• Completely strip all non-permanent floor finishes and seals to remove heel marks, scuff marks, rust stains, etc., using either a floor machine or manually scrubbing. Applies coats of floor seal a