About the Department

This recruitment is open on a continuous basis and can be closed at any time without notice.

Applications will be reviewed by Tulare County Human Resources & Development. As extra help positions become available, County departments with the job openings select the most qualified and appropriate applicant for the position available. The number of hours and duration of employment varies by each assignment. Extra help employees may work in a variety of County departments in locations throughout the county geographic area.

Extra help employees may not work more than 1,559 hours in any fiscal year from July to June. An extra help employee who mistakenly works in excess of 1,559 hours in a fiscal year does not become a probationary or regular employee. Applications will be active for six months. If you are hired for extra help and you complete a work assignment and then if you wish to be employed again, you must resubmit an Extra Help application online. There are no benefits associated with extra help positions.  See regular job specifications for complete job duties and requirements.

Position Duties

• Clean offices and restrooms.
• Sweep, mop, wax, strip, vacuum, and scrub floors, stairways and halls.
• Vacuum and shampoo carpets.
• Dust, polish and wash furniture.
• Clean light fixtures, vents, walls, sinks, windows, window shades, blinds, ashtrays, drinking fountains, and utility sinks.
• Empty waste receptacles.
• Assist in moving and arranging furniture and equipment and setting up rooms for special events.
• May make minor non-technical repairs such as replacing lights, adjusting shades or blinds, or adjusting desks and other furniture.
• Operate electrical floor polishing machines.
• May sweep outside areas and sidewalks.
• Check security of building before leaving, locking doors, and turning off lights.
• Prepare route worksheets, time cards, and lists of supplies needed.
• Keep utility storage area and custodial equipment clean and in good order.
• May fuel equipment and auxiliary tanks in a Public Works setting.

Essential job duties may be assigned that are not listed above but are relative to this job classification. (Reasonable accommodation will be made when requested and determined by the County to be appropriate under applicable law.)

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum qualifications are used as a guide for establishing the education, training, experience, special skills and/or license which are required and equivalent to the following.

Education: 

Experience: 

Knowledge of:

• Math sufficient to add working hours.
• Operation and maintenance of basic custodial equipment.

Skill/Ability to:

• Use proper cleaning solutions and equipment.
• Maintain custodial equipment.
• Give and follow verbal and written instructions.
• Read and understand instructions in equipment maintenance manuals and on cleaning supplies.
• Work cooperatively with supervisors, co-workers and others contacted in the course of duty.
• Observe safe work practices.
• Determine when cleaning is necessary and the proper equipment and solutions to use.
• Accurately mix cleaning solutions
• Maintain cleaning equipment.
• Identify safety hazards 

License or Certificate:

Special Requirements:

Other Qualifications

Conditions of Employment

Candidates selected will be required to pass a pre-employment drug and alcohol screening. Additionally, a background investigation may also be conducted, which may include a re-investigation every 10 years for some positions. An Employment Eligibility Verification using E-Verify may be required on the first day of employment for some positions. Some job classes may also require a physical exam.

College Cost Reduction Access Act

This may be a qualifying position for student loan forgiveness through the College Cost Reduction and Access Act (CCRAA). Only student loan payments made after October 1, 2007 and in a qualified repayment plan are eligible. For more information you are encouraged to speak with your student loan servicer or visit: https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Benefits

None Assigned.

Supplemental Questions

01

Check off the skills you possess:

• Give and follow verbal and written instructions.
• Read and understand instructions on equipment maintenance manuals and on labels of cleaning supplies.
• Work cooperatively with others.
• Observe safe work practices.
• Use basic math in calculating hours worked.

02

Check off the types of tools and equipment you have used:

• Vacuum cleaner
• Electric floor buffer
• Steam shampooer
• Mop
• Dust mop
• Brooms
• Wet/dry vacuum
• Other:

03

Check off the types of equipment, custodial maintenance tasks you have performed:

• Cleaned jets on a carpet shampooer.
• Replaced belts such as on a shampoo cleaner or vacuum cleaner.
• Replaced bags in vacuum cleaners.
• Replaced brushes on cleaning equipment such as on a vacuum or shampooer.
• Replaced or removed bags on a wet/dry vacuum.

04

Check off those custodial maintenance tasks listed below that you have performed

• Cleaned rooms, offices
• Cleaned restrooms, baths
• Swept floors
• Mopped floors
• Waxed floors
• Vacuumed carpets
• Shampooed carpets
• Emptied waste receptacles
• Dusted and polished furniture
• Swept outside areas or sidewalks
• Stripped wax from floor
• Checked security of building before leaving
• Locked doors and turned out lights
• Kept storage area neat and clean
• Kept custodial equipment in working order
• Cleaned drinking fountain
• Cleaned light fixtures
• Cleaned walls
• Cleaned windows
• Cleaned vents (heating and air conditioning)

05

When you are stripping and waxing a floor, in what order would you perform the tasks listed below? The first task that you would perform should be indicated with the number "1", the second task should be indicated with the number "2" and so forth, until all tasks have been assigned a number.

a. Apply stripping solution
b. Dust mop floor
c. Allow time for stripping solution to soak on floor
d. Apply sealer solution
e. Apply wax solution
f. Strip floor using buffing pad and scrubbing pad
g. Rinse floor
h. Remove solution with wet/dry vacuum
i. Pickup chairs, waste receptacles and paper

06

Identify the cleaning solutions listed below that would create a health or safety hazard. If the solution does not create a health or safety hazard indicate what you would clean with the solution.

Ammonia and water
Ammonia and bleach
Ammonia and acid bowl cleaner
Bleach and water
Bleach and acid bowl cleaner
Acid bowl cleaner and water

Required Question

Agency Information

Employer

County of Tulare

Address

2500 W Burrel Avenue








Visalia, California, 93291

Phone

(559) 636-4900

Website

http://www.tularecounty.ca.gov