Temporary Custodian

Position: Temporary Housing Custodian
Salary: $15.00 Hourly
Location : UCMO - Warrensburg, MO
Job Type: Temporary Hourly
Job Number: 999804
Division: Conference Center
Opening Date: 03/03/2026
Max Number of Applicants: 100

Description

To be eligible for full-time work in the summer, you can only be enrolled in 1 summer class during summer 1 & summer 2, or not taking summer classes but enrolled in fall classes.

The ability to work 40 hours a week with good attendance. Working on a custodial team to detail clean dorm suites, public areas: restrooms, lounges, hallways, offices, kitchens, conference rooms, entrances, elevators, laundry rooms & stairwells. Detail cleaning apartments. Using floor machines and carpet extractors for resurfacing tile floors when necessary and cleaning carpets. Moving from building to building, cleaning wherever necessary to have dorms ready for summer camps and then for the new school year, and apartments ready for new residents.

The ability to lift 50 lbs, and carry custodial buckets and equipment up and down stairs, and from building to building. Moving Furniture when doing floor work and resetting rooms. Attention to detail is important. Could involve cleaning mold from surfaces in dorms and apartments.
Examples of Duties
Clean Dorm buildings and Apartments; using chemicals, broom, dustpan, vacuum, mop & mop bucket.

Floor work - Hard surface floors use Roto, Wet-vac, Mop & Mop bucket, Finish & finish bucket and finish mop.

Floorwork - Carpet use Cadet and carpet cleaner to extract the carpet or Host carpet extractor with Host compound to clean the carpet.

Stairs - Sweep & mop, spot clean walls & clean handrails.

Hallways - Clean walls, water fountains, debug lights & vacuum floors.

Kitchens - Clean appliances, cabinets, sink, furniture, walls, trash, debug lights, sweep & mop floors.

Bathrooms - Clean toilets, urinals, sinks, tubs & showers, cabinets, mirrors, trash, debug lights, sweep & mop floors. (May involve Mold clean up)

Dorm rooms - Cleaning furniture inside and out, closets, windows, walls, mirrors, trash, debug lights, sweep & mop floors. (May involve Mold clean up)

Lounges/Meeting rooms - Clean all surfaces, furniture, walls, windows, trash, debug lights & vacuum floors.

Laundry Rooms - Clean Washers & Dryers inside and out, walls, windows, trash, sweep & mop floors.

Elevator - Clean walls, control panel, debug lights, tracks, vacuum or sweep & mop.

Typical Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent

Supplemental Information

Position requires sitting, standing, and walking. Must be able to bend, squat, and reach regularly/on occasion. Capable of moving, and transporting materials regularly/on occasion. Duties imply the use of a computer and other technology involving fine finger movements. Communicate orally and in writing with various audiences. Additional physical demands based on specific department needs.

NOTE:

A background check is required to be completed prior to starting the temporary assignment.

Special Instructions:

Full-time staff & 12-month faculty benefits-eligible position:
Benefits include competitive salary; health, dental, vision, life insurance, AD & D, long-term disability; 3 weeks paid vacation per year; 3 weeks of accrued sick leave per year; 13 paid holidays; retirement; and generous education assistance for an employee, spouse and dependent children taking classes at UCM.

9-month faculty benefits-eligible position:
Benefits include competitive salary; health, dental, vision, life insurance, AD & D, long-term disability; 3 weeks of accrued sick leave per year; 13 paid holidays; retirement; and generous education assistance for an employee, spouse and dependent children taking classes at UCM.

Part-time benefits-eligible positions:
Benefits include generous education assistance for the employee.

Temporary, adjunct, student employment, or graduate assistant positions:
Benefits are not included.

Completed UCM online application for employment required. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

A review will begin immediately and continue until filled unless indicated otherwise.

NOTE:

A background check is required for the selected candidate of all staff, faculty, adjunct, and temporary positions and any job offer is contingent on the results of this check. Student employees and graduate assistants do not require a background check to be conducted prior to employment.

The University of Central Missouri is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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