Cataleg D ocupacions capçalera

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Ocupacions

Window cleaner

Latest available data: December 2024 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Building maintenance and cleaning worker Janitress Window cleaner Window washer

Window cleaners use cleaning tools such as sponges and detergents to clean windows, mirrors and other glass surfaces of buildings, both on the interior and exterior. They use specific ladders to clean taller buildings, using safety belts for support.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Washing windows or other glass surfaces with water or various solutions, drying and polishing them;
(b) Using ladders, swinging scaffolds, bosun´s chairs, hydraulic bucket trucks and other equipment to reach and clean windows in multistorey buildings;
(c) Selecting appropriate cleaning or polishing implement.

Knowledge

  • Occupational health and safety
  • Work skills
  • Community sanitation

Digital competencies

  • Cleaning
  • Cleaning interior and exterior of buildings
  • Maintaining operational records
  • Complying with health and safety procedures
  • Applying protective or decorative solutions or coatings

Digital competencies

No skills and knowledge of the occupation have been found. Only skills and knowledge relevant and requested by companies in their job offers are displayed.

Personal competencies

  • Communicating
  • Leading others

Professional groups of the occupation

Elementary occupations

Cleaners and helpers

Vehicle, window, laundry and other hand cleaning workers

Window cleaners

Do you want to know the demand for this occupation in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Window cleaners

80

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

41,45%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

37,93% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

17,50%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

61,25%

Part-time contracts

1,27% Turnover index

246

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-7%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Cleaners and helpers

22%

78%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Cleaners and helpers

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Vehicle, window, laundry and other hand cleaning workers

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Window cleaners

No experience
20%
Less than 1 year
40%
Between 1 and 2 years
0%
Between 2 and 4 years
40%
Between 4 and 8 years
0%
More than 8 years
0%
Other service activities
61%
Construction
23%
Manufacturing
8%
Education
8%
0%
0%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.