Custodian - Position

Custodian
- Permanent Position

Dracut Public Schools Facilities
- Dracut, Massachusetts Open in Google Maps

Job : 5931396

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Posted: Sep 17, 2026 12:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

The Dracut Public Schools is seeking a custodian. This is a permanent position. Salary indicated is a starting salary in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement found here:

The Custodian is expected to work cooperatively and harmoniously with the Principal of the building in order that maximum efficiency will prevail.

The Custodian is expected to accept the responsibility for courtesy, behavior, and language in all situations involving school children, visitors, teachers, and administrative staff.

The Custodian is expected to be thoroughly familiar with the proper use of custodial supplies such as synthetic detergents, soaps, scouring powders, waxes, etc., and the proper techniques in using them.

The Custodian is expected to have knowledge of the proper use, operations, and care of specialized electrical cleaning equipment.

The Custodian is expected to be punctual in arriving /she is responsible for notifying the Principal whenever he/she has to leave the building. He/she is responsible for the physical security of the building when he/she leaves at the end of the day. Security measures must be checked in reference to doors, windows, lights, lavatory areas, boiler rooms and boilers, night temperature settings, etc.

The Custodian is responsible for the general upkeep of clean, neat and orderly school building areas. All floors, lobby, and corridor areas must swept between the time the teacher departs from the classroom at the close of the school day and the opening of school the following day.

The Custodian is responsible for the sweeping, wet mopping, dry cleaning, scrubbing, waxing, and buffing of floors as conditions warrant.

Washroom facilities must be kept clean, functional, and attractively presentable. Special custodian attention must be directed to the following work details in these areas:

• a. Urinals must be thoroughly scrubbed and washed with disinfectant solution.
• b. Water closet bowls must be thoroughly brushed and disinfected.
• c. Floors must be mopped and rinsed regularly.
• d. Wash sinks must be kept clean.
• e. Mirrors must be kept clean.
• f. Plugs and drains must be cleaned whenever necessary.
• g. Ceilings, walls, baseboards, windows, windowsills, partitions, doors, exposed pipes,and exposed metal must be kept clean and proper.
• h. Waste receptacles must be provided and emptied regularly.
• i. Soap dispensers, towel dispensers, napkin dispensers, tissue paper dispensers must be filled regularly and maintained in a functional condition,

The Custodian will follow the accepted duty routines for the proper maintenance and upkeep of school building facilities.

• a. Waste paper baskets and other litter receptacles will be emptied.
• b. Ceilings and walls will be spot cleaned.
• c. Lights must be cleaned.
• d. Windows and windowsills must be cleaned.
• e. Blinds must be kept attractive and functional.
• f. Fans must be cleaned.
• g. Woodwork must be dusted and cleaned.
• h. Radiators and unit ventilators must be dusted and cleaned.
• i. Closets and cabinets must be dusted and cleaned.
• j. Furniture and shelves must be dusted and cleaned.
• k. Metallic fixtures must be polished.
• l. Water bubblers must be kept cleaned.
• m. Transoms must be dusted and cleaned.
• n. Baseboards must be dusted and cleaned,
• o. Risers, treads, and landings of stairs and stairways must be cleaned.
• p. Pencil sharpeners must be emptied and kept functional.

The Custodian is expected to devote his/her attention to the general, handyman category of repairs.

• a. Installing or replacing window shades,…