Head Custodian-Elementary-Huron

• Huron
• 12 month
• 8hrs/day
• 6:00am-2:30pm
• $23.00/hr
• Replacing Don Papak
• Effective July 2025

Position Summary

Coordinates, oversees, and schedules the work of custodial employees and performs a variety of building maintenance responsibilities to oversee daily building operations. Monitors and ensures building cleanliness and security; performs preventative, minor, and exterior maintenance; and orders, receives and stocks supplies to maintain the inventory of custodial and maintenance supplies and equipment. May be called to respond to emergencies; may need to respond to emergencies to minimize and/or eliminate the need for school closures due to building problems. Performs additional responsibilities related to a specific functional area such as coordinating and overseeing the shipping and receiving of supplies and equipment for the school.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

(These duties and responsibilities are judged to be "essential functions" in terms of the Americans With Disabilities Act or ADA)

• Provides work instruction, training, leadership, and coordination of custodial staff.
• Maintains assigned work areas within the school.
• Submits work orders and receives, prioritizes and completes work requests submitted by school administrators and staff.
• Coordinates work schedules to respond to work orders and ensures that work performed meets quality standards; coordinates custodial overtime for all after-school evening and weekend activities; and organizes and plans summer and holiday maintenance daily schedules.
• Oversees the unlocking of the building and checks the building for safety each day; assists with scheduled fire drills.
• Monitors the building to identify and correct hazardous situations to prevent personal injury.
• Orders, controls and accounts for supplies and equipment in order to maintain inventory records
• Removes snow and salts sidewalks to maintain and ensure the safety of exterior walkways; and removes and disposes of trash from school grounds and exterior trash containers.
• Responds to emergency and immediate building, furnishings, and equipment damages by repairing damaged furniture, removing all forms of graffiti within and on the building's exterior, and repairing vandalized equipment.
• Coordinates the set-up and tear-down of seating and tables used for administrative meetings, after-school, evening and weekend activities including athletic events, concerts, plays, community education classes, dances, guest speakers, etc.
• Schedules and performs preventative maintenance; such as completing plumbing, electrical, carpentry/structural, HVAC, and other building maintenance work.
• Plans for and implements building improvements such as exterior and interior painting and installing shelving and window treatments.
• Serves as a liaison between the school district and construction management companies, fire and police departments, and other external building maintenance stakeholders.
• Responds to questions, complaints and needs of school district staff, students, parents, and the public in order to provide information and assistance.
• Secures building when facilities are not in use, checking for unlocked doors and windows, report any unauthorized occupants, turn off lights; responds to notification of burglar or fire alarms from District approved security companies.
• This position is also required to perform all those duties and responsibilities listed under the Custodial job description.
• Performs other related duties as directed by supervisor.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by a person in this position. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties that may be performed by such a person.

Education, Experiences, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

(To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

Education:

This position requires a high school diploma or general education degree (G.E.D.).

Experience:

• Four (4) years of related experience in custodial and building maintenance and general building repair and preventative maintenance, required; two of these years as a CVS custodian, preferred.
• Previous head custodial work experience, preferred.
• Internal employees must have no more than one unsatisfactory evaluation in the four year period prior to applying for the position.
• Work experience operating hand tools, power tools, snow plows, auto scrubbers, carpet extractors, floor scrubbers, carpet dryers, required
• Work Experience in overhead work, 6 ft. step or rolling, 8ft, 12 foot, extension ladders and 30 foot vertical lift, required

Certificates, Licenses, or Registrations:

• Required to pass: Vertical Lift Certification
• Must pass all written and skills tests.
• High School Head Custodian position required to pass certified pool operators course or Aquatic Facility Operators Certification within 6 months of being hired.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of basic math, including calculating amounts, percentages, units of measure, discounts, etc., required.
• Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of works, rules of composition, and grammar, required.
• Knowledge of basic computer skills, required.
• Knowledge of electrical, plumbing, air handling systems, HVAC, boiler systems required
• Knowledge of methods, materials, tools, equipment, occupational hazards, and safety precautions related to building maintenance, required.
• Knowledge of blood borne pathogen guidelines, required
• Knowledge in demonstrated leadership and Initiative, required.

Abilities:

• Ability to read and interpret district policies, guidelines, handbook, and government regulations, required.

• Ability to read and comprehend safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, school polices, and procedure manuals, required.
• Ability to write simple correspondence and routine reports, required.

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form, required.
• Ability to solve practical problems involving several concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists, required.

• Ability to handle emergencies and critical operational building problems, required.
• Ability to perform minor plumbing repairs, including but not limited to cleaning and unplugging traps, elbows, and replacing plumbing software such as washers, vacuum breakers, O rings, required.
• Ability to perform minor electrical repairs, including but not limited to light switches, wall plugs, light ballasts, required.
• Ability to handle maintenance work for carpentry and painting, required.
• Ability to communicate effectively using the English language with students, staff, community members, parents, and administrators, required.

• Ability to perform job duties using various types of equipment including but not limited to; mops, all varieties of vacuums, floor machines, power tools, ladders, hand tools, gator type vehicles, snow blowers, etc, required.
• Ability to perform job duties using a variety of cleaning chemicals, required.
• Ability to perform job duties in extreme hot and/or cold temperatures, required.
• Ability to operate and work with pallet jack when moving items more than 50lbs.

(To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to climb, push/pull, lift, bend, walk, stand, sit, twist, turn, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include vision, and ability to adjust focus, especially due to concentration when reading instructions.

Work Environment:

The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.

The qualifications listed above are guidelines for selection purposes; alternative qualifications may be substituted if sufficient to perform the duties of the job.

Title: Head Custodian FLSA: Non- Exempt

Reports to: Custodial Supervisor, Principal, Updated: December 2016

or Other Supervisor