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Heavy Duty Cleaner, Full Time

@ Chartwells Higher Education

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Mississauga, Ontario

Full-time
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Overview

Chartwells Higher Education is hiring a full-time Heavy Duty Cleaner for heavy cleaning work across campus facilities. The role covers floor stripping and polishing, high-level cleaning requiring ladders or scaffolding, garbage removal and carpet restoration. Previous cleaning or housekeeping experience is required.

Responsibilities:

  • Dry mop, wet mop and polish hard surface floors
  • Strip and finish floors with power equipment
  • Transport garbage and operate the compactor
  • Clean high glass areas, stairwells and ceilings with ladders or scaffolding
  • Shampoo and extract broadloom carpet

Requirements summary:

  • Previous cleaning or housekeeping experience required
  • Ability to understand and communicate detailed instructions
  • Ability to multi-task and set priorities
  • Able to work independently with strong attention to detail
  • Ability to use cleaning equipment

Tools & skills

buffing machinecompactorextracting equipmentpile lifting equipmentladderscaffolding
Source and dates

Employer career site / ATS feed · ultipro

Employer posting date
2026-10-26
First seen by our source
2026-10-26
Source record updated
2026-10-26

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Job details

SeniorityEntry level
DepartmentGeneral labour
Hours per week40 (estimated)
Travelair: none · ground: none
PositionSitting and standing
Physical demandsphysical high · computer none
LanguagesEnglish

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Job description

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How you will make an impact:
You will be responsible for heavy cleaning work including the cleaning of all hard floor surfaces, the cleaning of all surfaces that must be reached by ladder or scaffolding and the collection and removal of garbage from drop points to a garbage bin or compactor.

As a Heavy Duty Cleaner, you will:

  • Dry mop, wet mop (wash/scrub) and polish hard surface floors. The washing/scrubbing of floors is done with handheld or walk-behind buffing machines.
  • Strip and finish hard surface floors manually or with power equipment when required
  • Transport garbage from drop points to garbage bins or compactor; operate the compactor and be responsible for cleaning the compactor on regular basis
  • Transport maintenance machinery, where necessary, between floors and job sites
  • Clean glass areas requiring ladders, scaffolding or other extension equipment to reach
  • Clean washroom floors including washing, stripping, and finishing
  • Clean stairwells and elevator cabs where ladders are required
  • Wash walls, ceilings and dust ceiling light fixtures and ceiling fans
  • Use pile lifting equipment to restore certain types of carpet
  • Shampoo broadloom and uses extracting equipment to clean broadloom
  • Comply with H&S regulations and company policies

About you:

  • Previous cleaning/housekeeping experience is required
  • Ability to comprehend and communicate detailed instructions orally and in writing
  • Ability to multi-task and establish priorities
  • Highly motivated and able to work independently
  • Strong attention to detail and excellent time management skills
  • Must be able to use cleaning equipment
  • Physical ability to carry out duties of the position

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