District Custodian Job Fayetteville area,Arkansas USA,Maintenance/Cleaning

Position: 2025/26 District Custodian

Fayetteville Public Schools Maintenance/Custodial Department - Fayetteville, Arkansas

Starting Date: Immediately

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Re-Posted: Nov 20, 2025 6:00 AM (UTC)

Position Type: Full-Time

Salary: $16.10 to $17.39 Per Hour

Job Description

Fayetteville School District is seeking applicants for our custodial department, both day and evening positions. Starting pay up to $17.32.

General Description of Position

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

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

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 remove graffiti.

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, with a solid mop once a week. Dust all furniture weekly. Clean chalkboards and chalk trays weekly.

Clean desks and table tops nightly where needed.

Hallways:
Use autoscrubber as needed and spray buff 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.

Assist when needed with things like:
Keep custodial closets, trashcans, and equipment clean. Move furniture (with supervisors’ approval). Extra cleaning. Assist office staff. Change out ceiling tile and light bulbs as needed.

Lock entrance doors at a set time and recheck periodically in some cases.

Turn off lights that are not needed.

Maintain a flexible schedule for special school functions.

Dust mop gym areas daily, spot mop gym areas daily.

Assist lead custodian.

Clean up vomit and blood spills using appropriate blood borne clean-up system.

Assist in ice and snow removal. (Custodians are required to come in as early as possible when school is called off to start removal). Once snow is removed, extra cleaning duties can be performed.

Day custodian will pick up trash outside entrances each morning before school starts.

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.

Stripping and waxing floors.

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.

Physical Activities

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.

Job

5364229

Re-Posted

Nov 20, 2025 6:00 AM (UTC)

Contact Information

Not provided.

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