Gabrielle Banks
Bladensburg,MD
Summary
To obtain a position at your company utilizing relevant expertise to maintain appropriate service standards.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Janitorial Worker/ Sanitation Worker
State wide janitorial Service
Troy, MI
05.2024 - 03.2026
- Ensure the distribution centers are Cleaned, Clean floors, windows, restrooms, sweeping, mopping, and vacuuming floors and other areas of the store using approved chemicals and equipment. Using the scrubber and waxing machine using the robot machine and repairing it. Keep restrooms and other areas stocked with supplies. Use the walk behind T600 scrubber also use the ride along scrubber. Wiping down shelves cleaning inside the coolers and outside the coolers. Cleaning the racks and shelves inside the bunkers clean detailing spraying down using the Vac machine to power wash the bunkers in produce and meat department.
- Trash and recycling: Empty trash receptacles, and dispose of trash and cardboard according to company guidelines. Ensure the parking lot is free of litter and debris, including picking up trash and putting back loose shopping carts. Promptly clean up spills and address safety hazards on the sales floor Using PPE when necessarily.
- I worked in the refrigerated produce in deli section) ensures high-hygiene standards by cleaning, sanitizing, and maintaining equipment, shelves, and walls, often using EPA-approved chemicals. Duties include removing debris, scrubbing surfaces to prevent bacteria buildup, managing waste, and ensuring compliance with food safety regulations.
- Cleaning and Sanitizing: shelves, display cases, and surrounding walls of fresh food areas, specifically using, sanitizing, and soaping methods, often using sprayers and scrubs.
- Waste Management: Emptying, cleaning, and sanitizing trash and recycling bins, and removing waste from the area.
- Safety Compliance: Adhering to food safety procedures, proper chemical application, and handling of hazardous materials (PPE).
- Inspections: Conducting visual inspections for cleanliness and occasionally using ATP bioluminescence tests to detect contamination.
- Knowledge of chemical usage and sanitation procedures.
- Attention to detail regarding cleanliness standards. Ability to work in cold or wet environments.state
- Maintained cleanliness and sanitation of facilities, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards.
- Returned cans and garbage receptacles to curbs for easy retrieval.
- Operated cleaning equipment, including floor scrubbers and vacuums, effectively enhancing operational efficiency.
Dairy/Frozen Associate/ Grocery
Kroger
Birmingham, MI
02.2020 - 06.2024
- Greet customers, provide them with item information and direct them to the item’s location in a store go to the back and Load/Unload and break down freight onto good wood pallets.
- Control inventory and inform procurement managers in case of low inventory levels
- Discard all expired items according to company policy and place near expiry ones on special promotions
- Perform stocking duties such as lifting, rotating products, ordering, blocking, dusting and facing
- Process customer orders and oversee timely product deliveries
- Receive grocery items delivery and confirm the accuracy of both order and invoice.
- Report potential issues to management.
- Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
- Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
- Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
- Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
- Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
- Worked flexible hours across night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
Material Handler
Ride Aid Warehouse
Waterford, MI
02.2019 - 03.2021
- Picking and locating and gathering specific items for an order from warehouse shelves, often using technology like barcode scanners to ensure accuracy.
- Placing picked items into appropriate boxes or mailers, adding protective materials (like bubble wrap) to prevent damage, and verifying contents against the order.
- Transporting items between storage, production, and shipping areas using hand trucks, pallet jacks.
- Labeling, stocking, counting, and recording inventory, reporting shortages.
- Operate and Monitor the Conveyor System: Control the speed and route of materials using control mechanisms or direct physical activity.
- Keeping work areas tidy and performing basic equipment checks.
- Sort, transfer, and stack products onto pallets according to patterns, ensuring stability.
- Experience in Palletizing Inspect products, remove damaged items, ensure correct labeling, and fix stacking errors. Load pallets, slip sheets, and film into dispensers; resupply the line.
- Safety & Cleaning. Follow all safety protocols, keep the work area clean, and perform general housekeeping.
- Sorted and organized incoming shipments to optimize inventory management.
- Monitored warehouse to identify missing items, spills, and unusual activity.
- Used machinery and equipment such as box cutters, shrink-wrap guns and electric pallet jacks.
Grocery/Produce / Sanitation
Plum Market
Grand Rapids, MI
11.2014 - 07.2016
- Priced stock in a considerate manner. And ensure proper sanitation
- Uphold Shelves and maintained cases filled at all times, Answered phone and took orders for particular requested items.
- Assisted customers, providing information on pricing, purchases and products, Helped customers in making purchasing decisions
- Provided information on different grocery items
- Stocked the grocery shelves as directed
- Managed rotation services as instructed
- Cleaned and maintained shelves and coolers. -Make sure the grocery section of the store is well stocked for customer.
- Greeted all visitors and customers at the counter top.
- Highly Skilled in providing excellent customer service on continuous basis.
- Able to give accurate and detailed information to customers regarding products.
- Hands on experience using a box cutter, baler and equipment.
- Moving products with a pallet jacks, and recording expediting orders.
- I assist in Shipping in Receiving, Storing and stocking products displays.
- Ensure proper fronting of products, and handle product damages and credits according to company policy.
- Responsible for greeting customers, locating products, price-checking items, and organizing store shelves and displays. Doing back stock for clothes bringing them to the sales floors for Mark down prices. Clean restrooms; sales floor and parking lot as needed. Have a positive attitude in all weather conditions.cleaning floors through a combination of mopping, sweeping, and vacuuming, waste removal, window cleaning, restroom maintenance, equipment cleaning
- Organized and detail-oriented with a strong work ethic.
- Learned and adapted quickly to new technology and software applications.
- Worked flexible hours across night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
Housekeeping Aide
Saint Mary's
Grand Rapids, MI
06.2009 - 04.2014
- Dust, vacuum, sweep, and mop floors and surfaces. Clean the offices
- Clean and sanitize kitchens, bathrooms, and other areas.
- Wipe down appliances, counters, and sinks.
- Polish furniture and fixtures.
- Clean windows and glass surfaces.
- Empty trash receptacles and dispose of waste.
- Change bed linens and towels.
- Make beds according to required standards.
- Wash, dry, fold, and iron clothes and linens.
- Restock clean linens and towels
- Replenish toiletries, paper goods, and cleaning products.
- Monitor and report on the inventory of cleaning supplies.
- Report any maintenance issues or safety hazards to management.
- Notify supervisors of any property damage or lost and found items.
- Tidy up rooms and maintain an organized space.
- Operated industrial cleaning equipment to ensure thorough facility maintenance.
- Cleaned floors with sweeping, dusting, damp or wet mopping and disinfecting.
- Swept high ceilings, tight spaces and around furniture to remove built up dust and cobwebs.
- Maintained cleanliness and sanitation standards in patient rooms and common areas.
- Collaborated with healthcare staff to support patient care through efficient housekeeping services.
- Handled requests for extra linens, toiletries and other supplies.
- Maintained spaces with routine upkeep and basic repairs, coordinating with management on more advanced needs.
Kitchen Utility Worker
Minact, Inc.
Grand Rapids, MI
11.2010 - 03.2012
- Meal Service Breakfast Attendant preparations cooking for up to 300 persons.
- Identify the different cuts of meat and preparation of cuts.
- Can manage supply, stock, and inventory.
- Cleaning and sanitizing kitchen equipment, serving tools, and stations.
- Proven ability to produce quickly under pressure, without sacrificing quality.
- Knowledgeable in food safety issues and can define foodborne illness and identify potentially hazardous food. wash dishes, glassware, flatware, pots, and pans, by hand.
- Operated dishwashing equipment to ensure cleanliness and sanitation of kitchen utensils and equipment.
- Assisted in food preparation by washing, peeling, and cutting vegetables efficiently.
- Maintained a clean and organized work area to promote safety and compliance with health regulations.
- Ensured proper storage of food items according to safety guidelines to minimize waste.
- Increased overall kitchen cleanliness, focusing on deep-cleaning tasks such as scrubbing floors, walls, and equipment surfaces regularly.
- Monitored food temperature, discarding items not stored correctly.
- Maintained effective supply levels by monitoring and reordering food stock and dry goods.
- Operated food slicers, grinders and chopper in accordance with safety guidelines.
- Pushed, pulled and transported large loads and objects.
Coordinator Assistant/ Housekeeping aide
Gerald R Ford
Grand Rapids, MI
12.2009 - 12.2011
- Responsibilities
- Scrubbing floors and tiles, disinfect the areas, cleaning washrooms and laboratories, cleaning of fixtures and equipment. sweeping, mopping scrub, dust, polish furniture, in the rooms, sanitizing the door knobs and light fixtures, keep laboratories supplied with paper towels, and soap, vacuuming the carpets, answer phones in the office take messages, change sheets in pillow cases in every room Garbage removal and other exact cleaning tasks that may be assigned by my RA at the female dorms. Doing laundry for 300 student's sheets and pillow cases for the beds. and table cloths for dispose of waste and garbage, make sure laboratories are cleaned. Laundry Attendant
- Operated washers and dryers, loading and unloading laundry from machines according to recommended capacity
- Collected dirty linens from soiled hamper rooms and transported to laundry room for proper cleaning
- Received and sorted all articles by kind, color and degree of soil
- Ensured to set proper drying and cooling times for different types of linen
- Administered cleaning agents to laundry according to product specifications
- Inspected all laundry and linens and recorded damaged or stained items
- Prepared and distributed towels, washcloths, gowns, and other linens to their proper cabinets or rooms
- Maintained a clean and safe environment at all times Retrieved and sorted cleaned and dried articles, fold, wrap, hang and prepare for delivery to client.
- Mixed detergents, bleaches, starches, dyes, and other chemicals to clean, whiten or stiffen fabric.
- Managed clean linen from dryers and linen carts.
- Handled machines and organized linen carts and closets.
- Cleans rooms, hallways, lobby, restrooms, elevators, dining areas and other function rooms
- Replenish room supplies for the refrigerator, bathroom and work desk
- Conducts carpet cleaning activities in all required areas.
- Improved team productivity with regular communication and progress updates, fostering a collaborative work environment.
Material Handler
Gill Staffing
Grand Rapids, MI
06.2010 - 02.2011
- Making changes by hand or by running machinery equipment , will receive objects or parts on conveyer belt, be responsible for your portion of the job. and Measure parts and use tools to shape and trim them down to appropriate size. Performing assembly and packaging of plastic components. And then pass materials down conveyer belt to the next line worker , Cleaning up your area moving pallet jacks around , lifting 40 to 80 pounds of equipment down the line. Connect and fit components using hand tools, power tools, or machinery, based on technical documents.
- Inspect parts and finished products for defects, ensuring they meet quality standards and specifications.
- Packed items into appropriate containers for shipment.
- Kept storage areas organized, clean, and secure to fully protect company assets.
Education
High School Diploma -
Richard Milburn high
Woodbridge, VA05-2012
Skills
Quality control
All-purpose Cleaning Chemicals
Pallet Jack
Stocking
Barcode Scanners
Carpet Cleaning
Computer skills
Janitorial experience
Bed making
Sales
Assembly line
Grocery store
Sanitation
Cleaning and sanitation procedure implementations
Unloading
Mopping
Hospitality Housekeeping
Organizational Skills
Bed Linen Changing
Shipping & Receiving
Leadership
Hotel Mirror Cleaning
Hospital Experience
Laundry
Microsoft Office
Guest Services
Hotel Bed Making
Retail Sales
Customer Service
Load & Unload
Merchandising
Refrigerator Cleaning
Hotel Linen Replacement
Floor Cleaning
Commercial Cleaning
Trash Removal
Climbing
Food Safety SKILLS Highly skilled in providing excellent customer service on continuous basis Able to give accurate and detailed Information to customers regarding products
Hands on experience using a box cutter, baler and equipment Moving products with a pallet jacks and recording expediting orders Assembly line work, Operating machinery, Stockroom work, Unloading the truck prepare for inventory, quality control Skilled in receiving merchandise Hands on skills using a washer or dryer Sweeping & Mopping etc from vendors, stocking shelves and completing official procedure Unloading deli products and transfer stock to strage areas Sliced, cut, weighed, and priced stock in a considerate manner And ensure proper sanitation Uphold shelves and maintained cases filled at all times Answered phones and took orders for particular requested items Greeted all visitors and customers at the counter top Knowledge of scales and weight measure to exactly weigh and label products
Nursing home experience
Attention to detail
Basic math
Food safety
Sweeping
Hotel bathroom cleaning
Vacuuming
Assembly
Cleaning
Supervising experience - Supervising experience (1-2 years)
Retail Math
Custodial Experience
Volunteer Work I used to volunteer at the veterans nursing home helping with laundry and light housekeepingI also volunteer at St Mary's hospital I loved it (1 year)
Communication Skills
Heavy Lifting
Sweeping and mopping surfaces
Inventory monitoring
Cleaning expertise
Trash disposal
Stainless steel polish application
Tile and grout cleaning
Health and safety compliance
Additional Information
Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Accomplishments
- Supervised team of Number staff members.
- Achieved Result through effectively helping with Task.
Timeline
Janitorial Worker/ Sanitation Worker
State wide janitorial Service
05.2024 - 03.2026
Dairy/Frozen Associate/ Grocery
Kroger
02.2020 - 06.2024
Material Handler
Ride Aid Warehouse
02.2019 - 03.2021
Grocery/Produce / Sanitation
Plum Market
11.2014 - 07.2016
Kitchen Utility Worker
Minact, Inc.
11.2010 - 03.2012
Material Handler
Gill Staffing
06.2010 - 02.2011
Coordinator Assistant/ Housekeeping aide
Gerald R Ford
12.2009 - 12.2011
Housekeeping Aide
Saint Mary's
06.2009 - 04.2014
High School Diploma -
Richard Milburn high