
Posting number: 00680
Department: Garden City Regional Airport
Job classification: Part-Time Custodian
Posting type: Open
Categories: Airports
This position provides custodial services at the Garden City Regional Airport, ensuring an attractive, sanitary, and safe environment. Performs general cleaning duties in accordance with the Custodial Duties Schedule. The position works independently and supervised and uses considerable independent judgement.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Must be able to pass a federal background check and security threat assessment, have and maintain a valid driver license, and pass a pre-employment physical and drug screening. Must be able to read, write and comprehend material. Must be able to listen and apply information and instructions. Must be able to communicate electronically (computer/iPad/cell phone), verbally, or in writing.
Knowledge of the various components of custodial duties, cleaning, and proper floor and carpet maintenance. Considerable knowledge of cleaning methods, materials, and equipment used in custodial work. Working knowledge of simple hand tools. Working knowledge of safety practices and procedures. Skills in understanding and responding to customer needs. Skills in analyzing and solving technical problems within assigned duties. Skills in the operation, maintenance, and repair of equipment and tools used in custodial maintenance operations including vacuum cleaner, carpet shampooer, floor buffer, floor burnisher, auto scrubber, hand tools, and power tools.
Education, Certification and Experience: High school diploma or GED. Two years of experience in custodial duties. Valid Driver’s License required. Must obtain a Kansas Driver’s License within 60 days of establishing residency.
Environment: Work is performed indoors and outdoors.
Physical Characteristics: Ability to lift 20-50 pounds. On occasion, stooping, kneeling, crouching, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, reaching, bending, turning, wiping, washing, crouching, carrying, siting, standing, and walking.

Garden City, located 75 miles east of the Colorado state line and 200 miles west of Wichita, KS, is the regional hub of western Kansas and the county seat of Finney County. The community combines a small-town spirit with a wide variety of amenities, including several financial institutions, schools, medical facilities, churches, and retail shopping areas. Garden City is home to Lee Richardson Zoo, the largest zoological park in western Kansas, an award-winning pool and municipal golf course, a nationally recognized community college, several parks, and a number of special public events.
With 20 languages spoken in the local school system and a long history of taking in refugees, diversity is at the core of Garden City’s community and makes it a unique place to live, work, and play. The welcoming, tight-knit atmosphere and exposure to a broad range of people and perspectives make it a great environment to raise a family.
Garden City has a growing, resilient economy based in agribusiness and related industries. In 2017, Garden City began work on a new transload facility, which serves the regional wind energy industry and could be expanded to serve the distribution needs of the regional agribusiness industry. Because of the tremendous volume and wealth of agribusiness, manufacturers and marketers locate to the Garden City area to better serve this broad consumer base. Industries in and around Garden City offer products and support services such as water well technology, systematic irrigation, box fabrication, metal casting and fabrication, extrusion of plastics and many more. The Garden City area is also rich in natural resources and welcomes both traditional and renewable energy production.
That robust agribusiness base is supported by strong retail, education, and healthcare industries. These sectors serve the greater region, bringing in customers from western Kansas, eastern Colorado, northern Oklahoma, and northern Texas. These industries, together with agribus