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Custodial and Grounds' Service Provided

Custodial Services

Office Hours of Operation: Monday - Friday, 7:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. 
Telephone: 713-743-5684

General Duties: Provide Custodial Services twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week based on three (3) shifts. Perform general cleaning of classrooms, laboratories, offices, gymnasiums and all academic areas, locking and unlocking of all campus buildings and classrooms, collection of recycle materials, minor pest control tasks. Submitting work request to Customer Service Center on noted discrepancies relating to plumbing, electrical and interior items in need of repairs. Reporting safety hazards to the safety department.

Cleaning Requests: All cleaning requests must be called in to Work Control Center at 743-4948.  After working hours emergencies please call the Power Plant operator at 713-743-5791.
Requests for unlocking/locking, cleaning of classrooms, auditoriums, and theaters for weekend events must be requested by noon Wednesday prior to weekend requested.

Day Shift Supervisor: Jose Valdez

Day shift has Twenty-three (23) custodians/leads and general responsibilities are of the emergency type and restocking of restrooms as needed, cleaning of building entrances in support of all campus buildings, numbering on campus fifty-three (53) and one (1) off campus building. The day shift also has the responsibility of general cleaning all classrooms, laboratories, offices in the following buildings; Houston Science Center 123,149 gross sq. ft.; Pharmacy Building 49,368 gross sq. ft.; Police Station 14,498 gross sq. ft. The day shift working hours are from 6:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Evening Shift Supervisor:   Angela Hunter

Evening shift has fifty-two (52) custodians/leads and perform general cleaning of classrooms, offices, laboratories, gymnasiums, restrooms and other academic areas in twenty-seven (27) campus buildings consisting of 1,697,888 gross sq. ft. The evening shift working hours are from 2:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

Night Shift Supervisor:   Earlie Mae Burnett

Night shift has sixty-six (66) custodians/leads and perform general cleaning of classrooms, offices, laboratories, restrooms, and all academic areas in support of twenty (20) campus buildings consisting of 2,330,505 gross sq. ft.

 

Grounds Maintenance

Office Hours of Operation: Monday - Friday, 6:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Telephone: 713-743-5684
General Duties: Responsible for the continuing upkeep of all university of Houston grounds in an attractive and pleasing appearance by performing general horticultural maintenance, irrigation, clean-up of lawn, landscape and parking lots. Construction and repair of sidewalks, curbs and other concrete/masonry work, repair or replacement of signage, landscape furniture. Other responsibilities are pest and rodent control. Responsibilities off campus in grounds maintenance include College of Pharmacy, West Houston Institute and Camp Wallace (Coastal Center). Total acres maintained off campus are approximately nine hundred and thirty-six (936) acres and approximately five hundred and sixty (560) acres on campus.
Grounds Maintenance Requests: All grounds maintenance and pest control requests must be called in to Customer Service Center at 743-4948. After working hours emergencies please call the Power Plant operator at 713-743-5791.
Supervisors:
Victor Rey - Grounds Maintenance Supervisor 1
Samuel Arrez - Grounds Maintenance Supervisor 1
Joe Trujillo - Grounds Maintenance Supervisor 2