2026-2027 SY - Custodian

Work Location: Tohatchi Elementary
Work Hours: 7.5 hours/day
Contract Length: 236 days
Salary Range: $33,881.00 – $40,934.00

About the Role

To maintain an attractive, sanitary, and safe facility and ensure a clean and safe environment for students, staff, and the public by cleaning designated areas, using a variety of cleaning materials and equipment, and minimizing property damage, loss, and liability exposure.

Responsibilities

• Cleans assigned school facilities (e.g., classrooms, offices, restrooms, multipurpose rooms, grounds, cafeteria, storage areas, etc.) to maintain a sanitary, safe, and attractive environment.
• Arranges furnishings and equipment to provide adequate preparations for meetings, classroom activities, and special events.
• Attends service training (e.g., bloodborne pathogens, cleaning solvents, floor care, first aid, maintenance training, etc.) to receive information on new and/or improved procedures.
• Evaluates situations involving staff, students, parents, the public, etc., to take appropriate action and/or direct appropriate personnel for resolution.
• Inspects school facilities to ensure the site is suitable for safe operations, maintained in an attractive and clean condition, and/or identify necessary repairs due to vandalism, equipment breakage, weather conditions, etc.
• Maintains supplies and equipment (e.g., cleaning solutions, paper products, vacuum, mops, etc.) to ensure availability of items required to properly maintain facilities.
• Paints interior of classrooms, offices, restrooms, etc., to maintain an attractive facility.
• Repairs furniture and equipment as required (e.g., faucets, toilets, light fixtures, etc.) to ensure items are available and in safe working condition.
• Responds to immediate safety and/or operational concerns (e.g., facility damage, injured and ill students, alarms, etc.) to resolve immediate safety issues and maintain a functioning educational environment.
• Secures facilities and grounds to minimize property damage, equipment loss, and potential liability to the organization.
• Ensures all emergency lighting, fire extinguishers, and playground equipment are maintained in proper working condition on a routine and regular basis, as required by local, state, and federal policies and regulations.
• Removes snow and ice from designated areas.
• Regulates furnaces or other heating systems in use, including air conditioning and ventilating systems, for the comfort and safety of occupants; replaces filters as necessary.
• Empties trash and garbage containers for the building and cafeteria and removes them to designated areas.
• Raises and lowers the United States, State, and other required agency flags daily.
• Performs marginal functions such as hauling trash, mowing grass, chopping weeds, and trimming shrubs.
• Assists other personnel to support them in the completion of their work activities.
• Performs related duties and responsibilities as required.

Requirements

• Knowledge of basic operational characteristics, services, and activities of a school district housekeeping program.
• Knowledge of basic principles and practices of housekeeping duties.
• Knowledge of English usage, spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
• Knowledge of basic mathematical principles.
• Ability to learn equipment use and care, storage, and record-keeping.
• Ability to learn institutional housekeeping duties.
• Ability to learn to operate basic housekeeping equipment and machinery, e.g., vacuum cleaners and carpet cleaning equipment.
• Ability to learn to accurately and correctly apply applicable mathematical principles.
• Ability to learn to understand and follow oral and written instructions.
• Ability to learn to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing, in the English language.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
• Maintain mental capacity that allows for making sound decisions and demonstrating intellectual capabilities.
• Maintain physical condition appropriate to the performance of assigned duties and responsibilities.

Qualifications

Any combination of experience and training that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:

• Experience: Some general custodial experience desirable.
• Education: Equivalent to completion of the twelfth grade – High School Diploma or GED Equivalency.
• License or Certificate: Possession of, or ability to obtain, a valid New Mexico driver’s license.

Working Conditions

• Environmental Conditions: Office, shop, and school environment; exposure to cleaning and/or sterilization chemicals and airborne particles and vibration; exposure to loud noise and frequently works in outside weather conditions.
• Physical Conditions: On-site attendance is mandatory. Essential and marginal functions may require maintaining physical condition necessary for moderate to extremely heavy carrying, lifting, and pushing; reaching, climbing in high, precarious places, crawling, sitting, kneeling, standing, and walking for extended periods of time; operation of motor vehicles; and subject to random drug testing.