Assistant Custodian

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

Location: As Assigned

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Hourly Rate: $ 21.49

Union: Local 860

Under the immediate supervision of custodian, performs miscellaneous unskilled and semi-skilled tasks in the care and operation of public schools; performs related work as required.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Keeps building and grounds, including sidewalks, driveways and play areas neat and clean at all times
• Monitors heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems to provide temperatures appropriate to the season and to ensure economical usage of fuel, water and electricity
• Operates boilers, pumps and related equipment under the supervision of the custodian
• Shovels, plows and salts walks, driveways, parking areas and steps, when required
• Performs such yard-keeping chores as grass cutting, trimming of trees and shrubbery and the like as necessary to maintain the school grounds in a safe and attractive condition
• Makes such building repairs of which he/she is capable
• Assists with the ongoing preventive maintenance in accordance with the established Preventive Maintenance Manual and Log
• Performs other related duties as required and observes strict compliance with established procedures

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED required
• Valid High Pressure Boiler Operators License issued by the State of Ohio, preferred
• Experience in school building maintenance, preferred
• Successful completion of Civil Service Examination
• Good work record including performance, attendance and punctuality

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.

• Ability to hear and speak, read, and write, sit and/or stand for extended periods of time, use hands to operate a computer and other equipment, kneel, bend at the waist, reach overhead – above the shoulders and horizontally, to retrieve and store files and supplies, ability to lift, carry, push and pull items up to a maximum of eighty (80) pounds
• Ability to work on ladders, lifts, scaffolding etc. In addition, ability to perform duties at required heights per equipment
• Work environment involves some exposure to hazards or physical risks, which requires following basic safety precautions
• Work may involve moderate exposure to unusual elements, such as extreme temperatures, dirt, dust, fume, smoke, unpleasant odors, and /or loud noises
• 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
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

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.