Housekeeper, Center for the Arts at VT

Housekeeper, Center for the Arts at VT

Job no: 536475

Work type: Staff

Senior management: Executive VP & Provost

Department: Center for the Arts at VT

Location: Blacksburg, Virginia

Categories: Housekeeping, Other

Job Description

Housekeepers at the Center for the Arts must work independently and as a part of a team to maintain the cleanliness of the Center for the Arts building and grounds and ensure an aesthetically pleasing, clean, sanitary, and safe environment in a variety of spaces including lobbies, theater and other public event areas, performance support areas, restrooms, offices, classrooms, and research studios. Housekeepers must regularly use critical thinking to prioritize their own workload with minimal supervision, making real-time decisions to ensure the facility meets standards before, during, and after events.


Standard duties include, but are not limited to, floor cleaning, dusting, mopping, sweeping, vacuuming, window cleaning, gathering and removing trash, leaf blowing, and snow and ice removal from steps and sidewalks. Housekeepers must also anticipate and adapt to changing conditions while proactively adjusting priorities in real time in response to performances and events in this dynamic facility. Housekeepers are expected to safely and properly operate powered and manual equipment, follow health and safety procedures, monitor supplies inventory, and report needed building repairs, damages, and unsafe conditions. Housekeepers are expected to work a varying schedule, including day, evening, and weekend hours.

Required Qualifications

- Experience with commercial/industrial cleaning methods and safety.
- Working knowledge of safe and efficient operation of electrically powered and manual cleaning equipment.
- Ability and willingness to work a varying schedule that may include days, evenings, and weekends to accommodate event schedules.
- Experience providing excellent customer service and positive interpersonal interactions with a variety of clientele.
- Experience with daily activities requiring continual physical exertion, including climbing stairs, safely moving and handling up to 50lbs, bending, stooping, reaching (including above the head), pushing/pulling, performing repetitive motions, twisting, shoveling snow, walking and standing extensively.
- Ability and willingness to work outside in all weather conditions and to work from heights, including ladders.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience safely and efficiently operating electrically powered and manual cleaning equipment.
- Housekeeping experience working at a university or college, or experience in an institutional or commercial cleaning environment such as hospitality, manufacturing, healthcare, or similar.
- Knowledge of theater and event operations.

Overtime Status

Non-Exempt: Eligible for overtime

Salary Information

$36,000-$38,000, commensurate with experience

Hours per week

40 - Typically afternoons/evenings but will also include days, nights, and weekend hours

Review Date

Initial review 6/8/26; applications accepted until position is filled

Additional Information

Successful candidate will be required to have a criminal conviction check.


About Virginia Tech

Dedicated to its motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), Virginia Tech pushes the boundaries of knowledge by taking a hands-on, transdisciplinary approach to preparing scholars to be leaders and problem-solvers. A comprehensive land-grant institution that enhances the quality of life in Virginia and throughout the world, Virginia Tech is an inclusive community dedicated to knowledge, discovery, and creativity. The university offers more than 280 majors to a diverse enrollment of more than 36,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in eight undergraduate colleges, a school of medicine, a veterinary medicine college, Graduate School, and Honors College. The university has a significant presence across Virginia, including Blacksburg, the greater Washington, D.C. area, the Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke, sites in Newport News and Richmond, and numerous Extension offices and research institutes. A leading global research institution, Virginia Tech conducts more than $650 million in research annually.

Virginia Tech endorses and encourages participation in professional development opportunities and university shared governance. These valuable contributions to university shared governance provide important representation and perspective, along with opportunities for unique and impactful professional development.

Virginia Tech does not discriminate against employees, students, or applicants on the basis of age, color, disability, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, ethnicity or national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, or military status, or otherwise discriminate against employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants, or on any other basis protected by law.

If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact Alyssa Watkins at (View email address on click.appcast.io) during regular business hours at least 10 business days prior to the event.

Advertised: May 20, 2026

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