Posted 28 days ago
Heavy Duty Cleaner, Part time
@ Chartwells Higher Education
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Chartwells Higher Education is hiring a part-time Heavy Duty Cleaner. The role covers heavy cleaning of hard floors, high surfaces reached by ladder or scaffolding, and garbage removal to bins or a compactor. Previous cleaning or housekeeping experience is required.
Responsibilities:
- Clean and polish hard surface floors with buffing machines
- Strip and finish floors manually or with power equipment
- Remove garbage to bins or compactor and clean the compactor
- Clean high glass areas, stairwells and elevator cabs with ladders or scaffolding
- Wash walls, ceilings, light fixtures and fans; restore and shampoo carpets
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
- Physical ability to carry out the duties
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Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · ultipro
- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-09
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-09
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-16
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Entry level |
| Department | Cleaning & custodial |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical high · computer none |
| Languages | English |
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Chartwells Higher Education
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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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