Laborer

Facilities Job Families

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) is Ohio's third-largest public school system, serving more than 35,000 students. CMSD strives to ensure that every child receives a high-quality education, regardless of the provider. To that end, CMSD lets families choose which District schools their children attend, with options that include STEM, the arts, single-gender education, International Baccalaureate, Montessori, and early college.

Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing their school as a high-quality, high-expectation academic center focusing on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.

CMSD ensures that students have access to technology and training to prepare them for the future. The District provides a free laptop or tablet for every student and connects every family that needs internet access. Graduating seniors leave commencement with not only a diploma but also a laptop.

In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we strive to ensure that all of our learners, both scholars and educators, to be challenged with academically and intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their efforts and provide them opportunities to demonstrate their best work.

The Cleveland Board of Education adopted the Building Brighter Futures (BBF) initiative on December 9, 2025. Building Brighter Futures is a strategic and data-driven plan shaped by more than a year of community engagement, information analysis, and thoughtful deliberation. The goal of this plan is to strengthen enrollment and ensure scholars attend a newer school building that offers more educational opportunities, including algebra in the eighth grade, more sports and extracurricular activities, and college credits and college and career pathways in high school. BBF is ensuring academic excellence so every CMSD scholar can thrive.

The Opportunity

Pay rate: Probationary Laborer - $ 19.20 an hour (90-day probation) Pay rate: Laborer Step 1 - $21.29 an hour (After 90-day probation) Union: Local 860 Under the supervision of the Facilities Department and building administrator, performs maintenance and other duties of assigned building including cleaning building and grounds, yard-keeping chores as grass cutting, trimming of trees and shrubbery and the like, and other duties as necessary to maintain the school grounds in a safe and attractive condition at all times; performs building repairs as capable.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Cleans building and grounds including sidewalks, driveways, and play areas
• Shovels, plows and salts walks, driveways, parking area, and steps as required
• Cleans toilets, scrubs and disinfects toilet floors when required
• Performs such yard-keeping chores as grass cutting and trimming of trees and shrubbery and the like as necessary to maintain the school grounds in a safe and attractive condition
• Maintains floors in a clean and attractive condition at all times
• Makes building repairs of which he/she is capable
• Reports repair needs and any damage to school or facility property to the custodian or person in charge
• Assists with the implementation of an ongoing Preventive Maintenance Program
• Moves furniture or equipment within building as required for various activities as directed by the principal or custodian
• Performs other laborer duties as required outside the mail room and print shop and observes strict compliance with established procedures

Qualifications

• High school Diploma or GED required
• Two (2) or more years of experience as a cleaner, laborer, or maintenance person
• Mechanical aptitude
• Post-secondary course work or training in related area desired
• Good work record including performance, attendance, and punctuality required
• Must be able to work on a ladder/scaffold

Working Conditions/Physical Demands

The characteristics listed below are representative of the work environment typically encountered by an individual while performing the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Expected moving, walking, and standing consistent with a school environment and occasionally lifting up to 15 pounds
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk and sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms
• The employee is frequently required to talk and/or hear.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to a normal school environment.

NOTE: The above stated duties are intended to outline those functions typically performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This description of duties is not intended to be all-inclusive or to limit the discretionary authority of management to assign other tasks of similar nature or level of responsibility.

EEO STATEMENT

We believe that equity and inclusion at CMSD is an essential call to action, a catalyst to ensure value and appreciation among all our employees, so we may be fair and welcoming now and in the future. CMSD provides equal opportunities for employment, retention and advancement of all personnel by administering all terms and conditions of employment regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, sex, disability or genetic information, age, citizenship status, military status, sexual orientation or expression, socio-economic status, title, other dimensions of identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The District's Policy Prohibiting Discrimination, Discriminatory Harassment, and Sexual Harassment and the District's Title IX grievance procedures, including information on how to report or file a complaint of discrimination, how to report or file a formal complaint of sexual harassment, and how the District will respond, may be accessed on the District's Civil Rights Notices webpage, available at ClevelandMetroSchools.org/domain/105.

The District's Title IX Coordinator / Director of Equal Employment Opportunity may be reached at:

1111 Superior Avenue East, Suite 1800

Cleveland, Ohio 44114

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