Secondary Custodian (2)

Central High School; Helena-West Helena (AR); On-site; USD 22,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Central High School in West Helena, AR is seeking a dedicated Custodian to maintain a safe, clean, and welcoming learning environment for students and staff.

Responsibilities include cleaning classrooms and restrooms, reporting repairs, regulating HVAC for comfort, and performing grounds maintenance as needed. Starting date is immediate, with salary range $21,846 to $26,596 per year.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Education

Any health, literacy, citizenship, or other such requirements.

Job description

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Secondary Custodian (2)

Helena-West Helena Public Schools Central High School - West Helena, Arkansas Open in Google Maps

This job is also posted in Arkansas Jobs In Ed , and Helena-West Helena Public Schools

Job Details

Job ID: 5181807
Application Deadline: Oct 30, 2026 11:59 PM (Central Standard Time)
Re-Posted: Oct 15, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

Job Description

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.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

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.

Lift/ Carry , Stand C (Constantly) 10 lbs. or less F (Frequently)

Walk C (Constantly) 11-20 lbs. F (Frequently)

Sit O (Occasionally) 21-50 lbs. O (Occasionally)

Handling/ Fingering C (Constantly) 51-100 lbs. O (Occasionally)

Reach Outward C (Constantly) Over 100 lbs. O (Not Applicable)

Reach Above Shoulder F (Frequently)

Climb O (Occasionally)

Push/ Pull Crawl O (Occasionally)

Squat or Kneel F (Frequently) 12 lbs. or less F (Frequently)

Bend F (Frequently) 13-25 lbs. F (Frequently) 26-40 lbs. O (Occasionally) 41-100 lbs. O (Occasionally)

OTHER PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Vision (Near, Distance, Color, Peripheral, Depth Perception)

Sense of Sound (ability to carry on telephone conversations)

Sense of Touch (hot, cold)

Position Type: Full-Time
Salary: $21,846 to $26,596 Per Year