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Job Position: General Cleaner
Location: Soweto Campus
Closing Date: 5 June 2026
Job Type: Permanent
Job Description
To ensure that basic cleaning tasks are conducted professionally, contributing to excellence in service delivery within the University of Johannesburg campuses. This position reports to the supervisor of cleaners of campus facilities management and may require you to work at night if you are allocated night work.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Sweeping floors with brushes or dust control mops.
- Mopping with wet mops.
- Suction cleaning carpeted areas and spot cleaning carpets.
- Using electrically powered scrubbing and polishing machines to burnish, scrub, polish, and spray clean floors (after receiving instruction).
- To dust, damp wipe, wash, or polish furniture, ledges, windowsills, external surfaces of cupboards, and all appropriate areas.
- Emptying waste bins or similar receptacles and transporting waste to designated collection points.
- To replenish consumable items (soap, toilet rolls, and paper towels) if required.
- To clean toilets, urinals, hand basins, sinks, baths, showers, and drinking fountains.
- The correct use and mixing of chemical agents as directed by the supervising officer in the discharge of cleaning operations or maintenance procedures, after receiving proper instructions.
- To undertake wall washing or inside windowpane cleaning to a height no greater than body height plus an arm’s extension from floor level during periodic cleaning maintenance programmes.
- To ensure that duties are conducted daily with responsibility and accountability. Requiring minimal supervision.
Requirements
- Grade 10 qualification
- Vocational Certificate (NQF Level 1)
- Relevant cleaning experience
Skills And Competencies
- High responsiveness to cleanliness
- Ability to work physically under pressure and independently
- Ability to follow instructions with good understanding
- Respectful in interactions with clients/customers in service field.
- Good communication skills
- Must be reliable and punctual
- Must be customer focus on service delivery field.
- Must have basic reading and writing skills
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