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.

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.

• 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

• 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

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…