Cleaning Associate

Job Description

Do you love your Neighborhood? Are you the kind of person that enjoys working outside? Do you like to earn your money while giving back to your community?

We do too! In fact, this is what our company is all about. Since 1995, BLOCK BY BLOCK has been setting the standard in cleaning, customer service, hospitality and engaging visitors. Currently, we are seeking to hire individuals with outstanding people skills for the position of Cleaning Ambassadors in the Downtown Hartford area! This role is unique in the fact you not only will be assisting in keeping the streets of Hartford clean but that you will be providing much needed engagement with the public to help make visitors and residents of Hartford enjoy their communities’ experiences. Whether it’s a smile, a suggestion for restaurants or just keeping the streets clean so that everyone enjoys their experience being outside, we want to have outgoing and friendly people to provide it. So, I ask you, do you enjoy keeping your city clean, are you pleasant? Think Cleaning and hospitality on STEROIDS! If this is you, we’d like to meet you!

With pride, we make public spaces friendly and vibrant for the communities we serve.

JOB SUMMARY
This role will provide a high level of visibility at the street level to carry out a wide variety of tasks to improve the overall appearance of the service district they are assigned to.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
* MANUAL LITTER COLLECTION - circulate through assigned work zone with a rolling can containing supplies and tools to take care of the following tasks:
- Removing litter, fast food bags, cups, containers, cigarette butts and other debris on sidewalks, street gutter, and alleys. Trash removal and cleaning the sidewalks are mostly what Ambassadors do. Anything that keeps your district from looking clean and inviting has to go.
- Remove graffiti and posters from light posts, trash cans, news boxes and other public infrastructure. We look high and low for anything in eyesight that needs to be removed. You know those stickers for bands and bars? Handbills that junk up the telephone polls, well they got to go too.
- Pull isolated weeds. Weeds, weeds, weeds, they seem like they sprout up overnight. We pull them all. Weed abatement is a big part of this job. Those weeds grow around the tree wells, the cracks in the sidewalks, the vacant lots, you name it. If there is a crack, a weed can get in.
- Damp wipe and straighten horizontal surfaces, such as trash can lids, news boxes and other infrastructure. This is vital. WE have always cleaned and sanitized touchpoints. We clean everything that doesn't move.
* OBSERVE AND REPORT - while on patrol be watchful for unwanted behaviors or criminal activity and report to Safety Ambassadors via two-way radios. Must be able to articulate an accurate description of persons, vehicles, and other similar identifiers.
* HOSPITALITY AND CUSTOMER SERVICE - while on patrol will go out of the way to actively acknowledge pedestrians with a friendly greeting or identify visitors in order to provide directions, information, city information or recommendations. We go out of our way to engage with visitors and foot traffic. That means that we will cross the street to say "hello." Our Ambassadors never meet a stranger.
* REPORTING - must be able to provide written reports of broken infrastructure, graffiti on private property, and provide a basic daily report of accomplishments and tasks completed. We use Smart Phones to document stats on what we clean. We need someone that can work a cell phone.
* PROFESSIONALISM - must maintain a positive, professional environment in full compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies, procedures and overall Block by Block standards of expected professionalism. VERY important. You wear our uniform and you represent our company the nationwide. We need people that will respect that and remain professional in the public eye.

We are proud to offer the following benefits:

• Insurance : Medical with available FSA and/or HSA, Dental, Vision, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Life, and Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Critical Illness, and Accident.
• Paid time off : Vacation, Sick Time and/or PTO (Only where required by local requirements and contract agreements), Paid Leave (only where required by law), Holidays (only where required by contract agreement), Floating Holidays (only where required by contract agreement), Birthday Pay (eligible after one year of service at most locations unless otherwise stated in CBA), Jury Duty (only where required by law).
• Other : 401K Retirement Savings Plan

Requirements

PHYSICAL ABILITIES
* Must have the physical capacity to walk or traverse continuously during an eight-hour shift, with normal breaks (two fifteen minutes, and one thirty-minute meal break). Must be able to work outdoors in all conditions with provided inclement weather gear.
COMMUNICATION
* Must be able to speak, read, and write the English language in order to create basic reports.