The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, houses the foremost collection of American art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From her vision arose the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has been championing the most innovative art of the United States for 86 years. The core of the Whitney’s mission is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit American art of our time and serve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture in the United States. Through this mission and a steadfast commitment to artists themselves, the Whitney has long been a powerful force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to help define what is innovative and influential in American art today.

The Whitney Museum is seeking a full-time Porter to assist with general cleaning and maintenance of office areas, restrooms, stairwells and non-art storage floor at our offsite storage facility.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain the overall cleanliness of the building using diluted (ready-to-use) cleaning solutions, cleaning equipment, and other cleaning supplies as needed 
- Clean and maintain elevators, restrooms, hallways, stairways throughout the day.
- Organize, maintain and store museum non-art furniture, equipment and catalogs
- Garbage removal
- Set-up/break-down furniture for events as needed
- Move/deliver boxes (not to exceed 50lbs; help will be provided if necessary)
- Collect and/or clean dust mops, wet mops and other tools and equipment as needed
- Operate vacuums and other cleaning equipment
- Cleaning
- Dusting
- Moving
- Setups/breakdowns (and 99 Gansevoort Street)
- Snow removal at primary Museum location, 99 Gansevoort Street, NYC when needed
Occasional:
- Move furniture, files, brochures etc. as needed.
- Assist various Museum departments in setting up furniture for various events.
- Assist in detail cleaning of exhibition space (floors) after construction as well as office floors and carpets.
- De-install and reinstall museum spaces used for events.
- On-demand requests from museum staff for assistance.  
- Team work among department staff, working closely with other department staff including Security, Visitor Service, Retail, Education, Exhibition
- (Proprietary knowledge, level of confidential information, safekeeping of records, etc.) Maintains confidentiality of privileged and sensitive information. 

Requirements:
- Minimum High School diploma
- Custodial work experience. Floor maintenance preferred.
- Tools/Equipment, computer programs, office equipment, etc.
- Knowledge of facilities maintenance, cleaning supplies; operating floor buffer machine; ability to lift heavy objects(40lbs), furniture, equipment; ability to understand and take instruction and direction; ability work independently.
- Ability to work and communicate with others, work in teams and small groups
- Lift and move boxes, furniture and other objects as needed (not to exceed 50lbs)
- Ability to work around cleaning chemicals and dust (dust mask provided as needed)
- Self-motivated, takes initiative 
- Perform other Porter duties and responsibilities as assigned by Management
- Position is at offsite Museum storage facility that operates Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:30pm. Porter duties will be performed Monday through Friday during hours within this timeframe.