2026/27 Custodial Substitute

Fayetteville Public Schools; Fayetteville (AR); On-site; USD 19,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Fayetteville Public Schools is seeking an Evening Custodial Substitute to perform cleaning tasks across school facilities. Responsibilities include cleaning restrooms, classrooms, and hallways; moving furniture; and assisting with equipment and safety tasks.

The position requires reliability, basic math, and ability to follow procedures. Starting immediately, you may be called to support various buildings with a flexible schedule.

Qualifications

• Mental alertness and adaptability to office and field area work routines.
• Ability to read and understand documents such as policy manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Basic mathematical skills for handling numbers and measurements.

Responsibilities

• Clean restrooms including stools, urinals, and fixtures; refill supplies and mop floors nightly.
• Clean classrooms and staff work areas; dust mop, vacuum, and dust furniture nightly.
• Maintain hallways by cleaning surfaces; use autoscrubber and mop as needed.
• Assist in moving furniture and completing daily cleaning tasks under supervision.
• Lock entrances, turn off lights, and maintain a flexible schedule for events.
• Assist in snow/ice removal and annual floor stripping/waxing tasks.

Skills

Mental alertness

Adaptability

Communication skills

Reading proficiency

Basic math

Critical thinking

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

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2026/27 Custodial Substitute

Job Details

Job ID: 5938978

Application Deadline: Posted until filled

Posted: Sep 24, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

Job Description

The Fayetteville School District is currently accepting applications for the position of Evening Custodial Substitute.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION

Perform cleaning tasks including but not limited to those outlined below.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• 1. Clean all restrooms: Clean stools, urinals, lavatories, and chrome. Refill paper towels, tissue, and soap dispensers. Mop floors every night. Wash walls, stalls, and doors daily and graffitiremoval .
• 2. Clean all classrooms of teachers or staff work area. Dust mop all hard floor rooms nightly. Vacuum all carpet areas and rugs nightly. Empty all trashcans and pencil sharpeners nightly. Clean spots with spot remover on carpet nightly. Spot mop hard floors in classrooms nightly solid mop once a week. Dust all furniture weekly. Clean chalkboards and chalk trays weekly. Clean desks and table tops nightly where needed. This duty is performed daily.
• 3. Hallways: Use autoscrubber as needed and spraybuff weekly. Mop every night where needed. Dust hallway, cabinets, windows ledges, etc., weekly. Clean water fountains. Empty trash in hallway trash cans. Hallway carpet; vacuum nightly and remove spots nightly. This duty is performed daily.
• 4. Assist when needed doing things like: Help to keep custodial closets, trashcans, and equipment clean. Moving furniture (with supervisors’ approval). Extra cleaning. Assist office staff. Change out ceiling tile and light bulbs as needed. This duty is performed daily.
• 5. Lock entrance doors at a set time and recheck periodically in some cases. This duty is performed daily.
• 6. Turn off lights that are not needed. This duty is performed daily.
• 7. Maintain a flexible schedule for special school functions. This duty is performed daily.
• 8. Dust mop gym areas daily, spot mop gym areas daily. This duty is performed daily.
• 9. Assist lead custodian. This duty is performed daily.
• 10. Clean up vomit and blood spills using appropriate blood borne clean-up system. This duty is performed daily.
• 11. Assist in ice and snow removal. (Custodians are required to come in as early as possible when school is called off to start process of removal). Once snow is removed, extra cleaning duties can be performed. This duty is performed as needed.
• 12. Day custodian will pick up trash outside entrances each morning before school starts. This duty is performed daily.
• 13. Clean all furniture, walls, and glass. Move furniture as needed to scrub and wax floors according to directions. Change out ceiling tile and light bulbs as needed. Extract carpets with carpet machine. This duty is performed annually.
• 14. Stripping and waxing floors. This duty is performed annually.
• 15. Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Mental alertness and adaptability to office and field area work routines. Equivalent to four years high school or GED, with particular emphasis during high school in office skills, shop skills, or others, plus 0 to 6 months related experience and/or training. Or equivalent combination of education and experience.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Ability to read and understand documents such as policy manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers. Ability to perform these mathematical skills using money and other forms of measurement.

CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

Ability to use common sense understanding in order to carry out detailed written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few known variables in situations of a routine nature.

INITIATIVE AND INGENUITY

SUPERVISION RECEIVED

Under general supervision where standard practice enables the employee to proceed alone on routine work, referring all questionable cases to supervisor.

PLANNING

Limited responsibility with regard to specific assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work operations.

DECISION MAKING

Performs work operations which permit infrequent opportunity for decision-making of minor importance and which would only affect the operating efficiency of the individual involved to a slight degree.

MENTAL DEMAND

Light mental demand. Operations requiring intermittent directed thinking to carry out predetermined procedure or sequence of operations of limited variability. Operations requiring intermittent attention to control machine or manual motions.

ANALYTICAL ABILITY / PROBLEM SOLVING

Repetitive. Activities or duties using a pre-determined set of processes or directions coupled with nearby supervision. Learned things in situations where choice is simple or patterned.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR FUNDS, PROPERTY and EQUIPMENT

Ordinarily has little, if any, association with funds, supplies, equipment or other property where there would exist any appreciable opportunity for damage, misappropriation, or other monetary loss.

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

The following physical activities 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 and expectations.

Moderate diversity, moderately physical. Work activities which allow for a moderate amount of diversity in the performance of tasks which requires somewhat diversified physical demands of the employee.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and frequently required to walk, reach with hands and arms above head, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; occasionally required to sit, climb ladders, balance, talk or hear, taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds; frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds; regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; distance vision; color vision; peripheral vision; depth perception; and ability to adjust focus.

Position Type: Substitute

Salary: $16.40 to $16.40 Per Hour

Job Requirements

• Citizenship, residency or work visa required