Temporary Custodian

The District School District #6 is located in the famous Rogue River Valley of Southern Oregon, nestled between the Cascade and Siskiyou Mountain ranges. The area abounds with opportunities—natural, theatrical, musical, educational, and athletic. The entire school district is being restructured to further improve an already excellent program, aiming to add innovative and energetic staff committed to students and educational improvement while participating in creative decision-making.

About the Role

The Custodian helps ensure the health and safety of students, staff, administrators, and the public by maintaining District facilities in a clean, sanitary, and orderly condition. This position reports to the Principal or Assistant Principal and involves frequent interaction with students, staff, and parents, requiring professional decorum, courtesy, and customer service.

Responsibilities

• Ensures appropriate cleanliness standards are met by performing routine custodial functions, including vacuuming, mopping, sweeping, dusting, scrubbing, waxing, disinfecting, burnishing, and polishing.
• Cleans windows, walls, floors, carpets, lavatories, showers, sinks, mirrors, and water fountains.
• Performs general landscaping tasks, including trimming shrubbery and trees, mowing and edging lawns, and removing leaves.
• Refills dispensers for soap, paper towels, toilet paper, and similar containers.
• Empties and cleans wastepaper baskets and other refuse receptacles and picks up litter as necessary.
• Moves and arranges desks, chairs, supplies, furniture, and other equipment as needed, including for set-up of rooms for school, District, and community functions.
• Removes spots, markings, and graffiti from surfaces of walls, floors, windows, woodwork, furniture, and carpets.
• Operates various pieces of power equipment, including power sweepers, pressure washers, vacuums, burnishers, mowers, edgers, weed eaters, and leaf blowers.
• Responds to requests for immediate cleaning services.
• Ensures custodial equipment is properly cleaned, stored, and maintained in proper working order.
• Maintains custodial storage facilities in a clean, orderly, and secure condition.
• Performs minor repairs and adjustments to building fixtures and equipment.
• Monitors inventory of custodial supplies and orders replacements from the District warehouse as needed.
• Inspects District buildings for fire, sanitary, or safety hazards and reports findings to appropriate supervisors.
• Maintains effective and respectful working relationships with staff and students.

Requirements

• Must possess a high school diploma or equivalent.
• Must pass a criminal background check.
• Must be able to read, understand, and follow multi-step written and verbal instructions in English.

Working Conditions

The School Custodian works primarily indoors, but some outdoor work is occasionally required. The incumbent will be regularly exposed to odors, fumes, dirt, and dust. Other potential hazards include cleaning chemicals, communicable diseases, sharp objects, hand-operated power equipment, and slippery surfaces. The position requires:

• Spending most work hours standing.
• Regularly bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, reaching, and climbing ladders—sometimes for prolonged periods.
• Repeatedly lifting 50 lbs. independently and more than 50 lbs. with assistance.

Pay

$17.85 - $21.46 per hour, depending on approved experience.

• Longevity pay after completion of 6 years of employment.
• Annual COLA pay increase (as negotiated with Oregon School Employees Association).
• Annual step pay increase awarded to eligible employees.

Benefits

• 11 paid holidays annually.
• 12 paid sick leave days per year.
• 2 paid personal leave days per year.
• 5 paid bereavement leave days per year, per occurrence.
• Up to $2,193 per month district-paid contribution toward full-family medical, dental, and vision insurance (for full-time employees).
• $500 per month opt-out stipend for employees who demonstrate other health insurance coverage under a qualifying employer-sponsored group medical plan (for full-time employees).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• 6% district-paid contribution towards Oregon Public Employees Retirement System.
• $60 per month employer match into a tax-sheltered annuity when employee contributes $35 per month.

Hours: 8.0 hours per day. Work year: approximately 260 days.