Custodian - Middle School Part time

Bibb County School District; Macon (GA); On-site; USD 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established educational institution is seeking a dedicated Custodian for the 2025-2026 school year. This role involves performing essential custodial tasks to ensure a clean and safe environment for students and staff. The ideal candidate will possess a strong work ethic, physical stamina, and the ability to operate various cleaning equipment effectively. You will play a crucial role in maintaining the school's facilities, ensuring they are welcoming and conducive to learning. If you are looking for a rewarding position that contributes to the well-being of the school community, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Paid Overtime

Flexible hours

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED preferred; experience with custodial equipment is a plus.
• Ability to perform heavy physical tasks and follow safety protocols.

Responsibilities

• Perform custodial tasks to maintain a clean and safe environment.
• Use electrical cleaning equipment and chemicals according to safety guidelines.
• Respond to emergency situations and perform routine maintenance.

Skills

Ability to operate custodial equipment

Ability to follow instructions

Punctuality and dependability

Physical stamina

Judgment and decisiveness

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Electric cleaning equipment

Custodial supplies and tools

Job description

Bibb County School District | Macon, GA 31201

The Bibb County School District is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 School year for the position of Custodian.

Official Title: Custodian

Salary Grade: 26

Length of Work Year: 225 days (11 months) 4 hours

Reports To: Head Custodian/Principal/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.
• Requires the ability to exchange information for the purpose of obtaining information or clarifying details.
• 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.
• Requires punctuality, dependability and flexibility of the individual.
• Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving a variety of generally pre-defined duties.

Education, Training and Experience: High school diploma or GED preferred; supplemented by any previous experience demonstrating ability to safely and effectively operate standard facility custodial equipment, and ability to fulfill the physical requirements of the work; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

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).

Paid Overtime: 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 meetings/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.

Date(s) Revised: 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.