Secondary - Custodian

Position Title: Custodian
Salary Grade: Salary and work year to be determined by contract.
Department: Administrative
Job Code:
Division: Curriculum and Professional Development
FLSA Status:
Reports to: Principals, Assistant Principals, and Administrative Assistants to the Superintendents
Last Updated: 08/2009

General Summary: The Custodian provides students with a safe, attractive, comfortable, clean, and efficient
place in which to learn, play, and develop.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
· Keeps building and premises, including sidewalks, driveways, and play areas, neat and clean at all times.

· Regulates heat ventilation, and air conditioning systems to provide temperature appropriate to the season and to ensure economical usage of fuel, water, and electricity.

· Shovels, plows, sands walk, driveways, parking areas, and steps, as appropriate.

· Checks daily to ensure that all exit doors are open and all panic bolts are working properly during the hours of building occupancy.

· Raises the U.S. flag at or before 8 a.m. on each school day, and lowers it at or after 3:30 p.m.

· Sweeps classrooms daily and dusts furniture.

· Cleans corridors after school each day, and during the day when their condition requires it.

· Scrubs, hoses down, disinfects toilet floors daily and cleans all sanitary fixtures and drinking fountains daily.

· Washes all windows on both the inside and outside at least twice each year and more frequently if necessary.

· Keeps the grounds free from rubbish.

· Performs such yard keeping chores as grass cutting and tree trimming as necessary, to maintain the school grounds in a safe and attractive condition.

· Keeps all floors in a clean and attractive condition and in a good state of preservation.

· Cleans all chalkboards at least once a week.

· Makes minor building repairs.

· Reports major repairs needed promptly to the head custodian.
Contacts and Communication
Education and Experience
· Any health, literacy, citizenship, or other such requirements.

· Any specific skill mastery required.

· Demonstrated aptitude or competence for assigned responsibilities.

· Such alternative to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.