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Cleaner Roles and Skills Guide

Cleaners are responsible for a wide range of cleaning duties in both residential and commercial properties. Their duties typically include general cleaning, waste disposal, cleaning and stocking restrooms, cleaning floors and surrounding areas, and stocking and maintaining cleaning supplies. Cleaners work part-time or full-time, including evenings and weekends. While no formal education is required, cleaners should be dependable, physically fit, have good English skills, pass background checks, and have reliable transportation in order to clean offices, hotels, and other locations professionally.

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Cleaner Roles and Skills Guide

Cleaners are responsible for a wide range of cleaning duties in both residential and commercial properties. Their duties typically include general cleaning, waste disposal, cleaning and stocking restrooms, cleaning floors and surrounding areas, and stocking and maintaining cleaning supplies. Cleaners work part-time or full-time, including evenings and weekends. While no formal education is required, cleaners should be dependable, physically fit, have good English skills, pass background checks, and have reliable transportation in order to clean offices, hotels, and other locations professionally.

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  • Cleaner Job Description: Details the roles and types of environments where cleaners work, including corporate and residential settings.
  • Cleaner Skills and Qualifications: Outlines necessary skills such as reliability, attention to detail, and physical stamina, along with qualifications.
  • Stock and Maintain Cleaning Supplies: Discusses the management and restocking of cleaning supplies and replacement of tools.
  • Cleaner Tools of the Trade: Lists the tools cleaners use regularly like janitorial equipment.
  • Cleaner Education and Training: Explains the educational requirements and training expected for cleaners in the industry.

Cleaner Job Description

Cleaners are responsible for a wide range of cleaning and housekeeping duties in corporate
and residential settings. They may be employed by a cleaning agency, or they may be self-
employed. Cleaners work part-time or full-time, and depending on the type of work,
cleaners may regularly work second or third shift and weekends. Cleaners working in
.commercial properties often work in corporate offices, hotels, and restaurants

Cleaner Duties and Responsibilities

Cleaners are tasked with cleaning and light maintenance duties in both residential and
:commercial properties. Current job postings frequently list the following duties for cleaners

General Cleaning

Whether working in a corporate office or residential home, cleaners are hired to not only
create a clean and sanitary environment but also to make the space presentable and
welcoming. Cleaners are therefore responsible for keeping their assigned areas clean, tidy,
.and sanitary as frequently as required

Waste Disposal

Cleaners empty trash cans and recycle bins in offices, conference rooms, and other areas
daily. If working during the day, cleaners make sure that shared waste bins are timely
emptied to prevent overflowing. Cleaners replace trash bags and bin liners where
.appropriate

Clean and Stock Restrooms

Cleaners working in corporate office buildings are responsible for keeping restrooms cleaned
in their assigned areas. At the minimum, cleaners clean and sanitize restrooms daily during
the workweek, including sinks, toilets, and floors, ensuring that paper goods and soap
.dispensers are properly stocked

Clean Floors and Surrounding Areas


Cleaners vacuum carpeted areas and mop floors as assigned in offices, hallways, conference
rooms, customer areas, and elsewhere as needed. Cleaners also dust baseboards and spot
.clean walls

Stock and Maintain Cleaning Supplies

Cleaners handle a variety of cleaning supplies and solutions every day, and therefore know
best when it’s time to restock cleaning materials. Cleaners monitor supply levels and
communicate restocking needs as required. Cleaners repair and replace cleaning tools when
.needed

Cleaner Skills and Qualifications

Cleaners are reliable, independent workers who can transform an untidy area into a
welcoming and refreshing space. Although cleaners may work second or third shift, their
work is evaluated constantly by those who frequent the areas they clean. No formal
:education is required, but cleaners should have the following skills

Dependability – commercial employers rely on cleaners to make individual areas (offices,


cubicles, workstations) and common spaces (conference rooms, reception, dining areas)
clean and presentable to employees and clients on a daily basis. Residential employers
welcome cleaners into their homes, and cleaners respond with reliable and consistent work

Physical fitness – cleaners are on their feet for the duration of the performance of their job
duties, so a minimal level of fitness is usually required. Depending on the employment, some
cleaners need to have the ability to lift up to 50 pounds, as needed

English language proficiency – cleaners often interact with the employees and clients who
are present during the time cleaners are working in those individuals’ assigned areas.
Although cleaners aren’t responsible for engaging in customer relationships, they are
expected to be professional, friendly, and conversational when appropriate

Clean background check – cleaners working in corporate offices, hotels, and homes often
have access to classified and personal information, as well as valuable personal items.
Cleaners are therefore trustworthy, honest, and able to pass background checks and obtain
security clearance

Reliable transportation – cleaners working across job sites have the ability to travel to and
between sites without issue and are often expected to have a valid driver’s license
Cleaner Tools of the Trade

:Cleaners use the following on a weekly, if not daily basis

Janitorial equipment (floor buffers, industrial vacuums)

Cleaner Education and Training

Cleaners do not need any formal education, although some employers do require either a
high school diploma or GED. Most employers are looking for at least one year of experience
.in the cleaning industry

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