Custodian - (Head) Middle School

Young World Physical Education

Macon (GA)

On-site

USD 26,334 - 29,682

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Paid overtime

Job summary

Bibb County School District seeks a Head Custodian for Appling Middle School in Macon, GA. The role involves managing custodial tasks to maintain a safe, clean, and welcoming environment for students and staff.

Required high school diploma or GED with supervisory experience; salary in the range of $26,334 to $29,682 per year. Position is full-time with paid overtime and 239 work days per year.

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or GED preferred; supplemented by four years of supervisory skills/experience.
  • Ability to safely operate standard facility custodial equipment.
  • Ability to complete the Custodial Maintenance Program and train staff.

Responsibilities

  • Uses electrical cleaning equipment to clean the assigned facility.
  • Safely uses chemicals and cleaners according to instructions to ensure safety.
  • Opens areas daily and secures them upon completion of tasks.
  • Performs custodial tasks such as cleaning waste receptacles, windows, dusting, vents and walls.
  • Performs sanitizing tasks in restrooms, kitchens and cafeterias.
  • Handles heavy custodial equipment for floor care.
  • Responds to emergencies to contain hazards.
  • Moves furniture and equipment as needed.
  • Reports malfunctions and maintenance needs to supervisor.
  • Performs routine maintenance on custodial equipment.
  • Performs non-cleaning tasks like changing bulbs and stocking supplies.

Skills

Custodial equipment
Cleaning chemicals
Safety procedures
Opening/closing facilities
Emergency response
Physical endurance

Education

High school diploma or GED
Supervisory experience

Job description

Custodian - (Head) Middle School
Bibb County Public Schools APPLING MIDDLE SCHOOL - Macon, Georgia Open in Google Maps

Job ID: 5856046
Application Deadline: Posted until filled
Posted: Jul 28, 2026 4:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: To Be Determined

Job Description

The Bibb County School District is now accepting applications for Head Custoidan.

Official Title: Head Custodian Job Code: $26,334 - $29,682 Working Title: Salary Grade: 110 Length of Work Year: 239 Days Reports To: Principal and Custodial Director Summary Description of Classification: Under general supervision, the purpose of the position is to perform custodial tasks for an assigned school of the district. Employees in this class are responsible for accomplishing a daily routine of custodial tasks that provide school personnel, students, and the public with an environmentally safe, attractive, comfortable, clean, and efficient place in which to work and conduct school activities. Performs related work as directed.

Minimum Qualification Standards
Knowledge, Abilities and Skills
  • Requires the ability to arrange, compare, count, differentiate, measure and/or sort data and/or information. Includes judging whether readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics are similar to or divergent from prescribed standards, procedures or routines.
  • Requires the ability to exchange information for the purpose of obtaining information or clarifying details. Performs such within well established policies, procedures and standards.
  • Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of electrically powered custodial equipment, and hand-held supplies and cleaning tools.
  • Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and advisory data and information.
  • Requires the ability to perform addition and subtraction.
  • Requires ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagrammatic form. Involves semi-routine standardized work with some latitude for independent judgment concerning choices of action.
  • Requires dependability, punctuality and flexibility of the individual.
  • Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving a variety of generally pre-defined duties which are often characterized by frequent change.
Education, Training and Experience

High school diploma or GED preferred; supplemented by four years of supervisory skills/ experience demonstrating ability to safely and effectively operate standard facility custodial equipment; ability to successfully complete the Custodial Maintenance Program as well as train staff members and ability to fulfill the physical requirements.

Certificate and License Requirements

None

Physical Demands

Tasks involve the ability to exert heavy physical effort in heavy work, with greater emphasis on climbing and balancing, but typically also involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, and the lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of moderately heavy objects and materials (20-50 pounds); may occasionally involve heavier objects and materials (up to 100 pounds).

Special Requirements

Paid Overtime (Y/N): Yes

Duties and Responsibilities
  • Uses electrical cleaning equipment in the cleaning of the assigned facility during hours assigned, i.e., vacuum cleaners, shampoo machines, high speed buffers.
  • Uses appropriate chemicals and cleaners safely and productively according to instructions and established State Department of Education regulatory to ensure personal, student, public, and staff safety.
  • Ensures assigned areas are properly opened daily, and fully secured upon completion of daily tasks, i.e., locking doors and windows, turning off electrical units.
  • Performs custodial tasks, i.e., emptying and cleaning waste receptacles; washing windows; dusting furniture; cleaning vents, fans, walls.
  • Performs sanitizing tasks in various facility areas, i.e., restrooms, kitchen and food areas, cafeterias.
  • Performs physically demanding tasks requiring use of heavy custodial equipment, i.e., mopping, stripping, waxing, floor buffing.
  • Responds to emergency situations in order to confine, resolve or prevent injurious or otherwise hazardous conditions, i.e., spills, broken windows, broken locks.
  • Moves furniture and other equipment in the performance of duties.
  • Cleans equipment and tools after use and maintains cleanliness and order in storage areas.
  • Reports equipment malfunctions and facility maintenance needs to immediate supervisor.
  • Performs routine maintenance on facility custodial equipment, such as changing vacuum cleaner belts and bags, and changing buffer machine pads.
  • Performs non-cleaning tasks in general facility maintenance, i.e., changing light bulbs, filling paper and soap dispensers, assisting in setting up for meeting/conferences.
  • Functions independently, or as part of a custodial crew depending on the nature of the task, such as in seasonal facility preparations, or other major custodial projects.
  • The list of essential functions, as outlined herein, is intended to be representative of the tasks performed within this classification. It is not necessarily descriptive of any one position in the class. The omission of an essential function does not preclude management from assigning duties not listed herein if such functions are a logical assignment to the position.

The Bibb County School District will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to allow them to perform the essential functions of the job when such individuals request an accommodation so long as the accommodation does not create an undue financial hardship for the district.

Position Type: Full-Time

Salary: $26,334 to $29,682 Per Year

Job Requirements
Contact Information
  • Bibb County School District
  • Human Resources Department
  • 484 Mulberry Street, Suite 501
  • Macon, Georgia 31216
  • Phone: 478-765-8560
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