Custodian Academic and Residential Buildings

Position Summary

Are you ready for a meaningful role within our university community?

The University of Wisconsin - Platteville is hiring Custodians to help maintain a vibrant, welcoming campus while enjoying dependable employment, excellent benefits, and a positive work-life balance. As a Custodian, you will play a vital role in keeping our campus clean, safe, and welcoming while building meaningful connections with students, faculty, staff, and visitors.

As a Custodian at UW‑Platteville, you'll support the upkeep of historic landmarks like Ullrich Hall, a 1916 academic building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. At the same time, you'll work around Sesquicentennial Hall, a state‑of‑the‑art engineering and science facility, which contains the expansive Huff Family Innovation Center, one of the largest makerspaces in the Midwest.

• Maintains clean and clear walkways to ensure they are free of debris, litter, snow, and ice
• Monitors and secures facility interior and exterior entrances and reports issues to appropriate entities
• Maintains organization of supply areas and equipment, documents inventory, and requests additional supplies as needed
• Documents and reports repairs, violations, and pest control needs
• Utilizes basic equipment and supplies to clean assigned facility areas and remove waste and recyclables

• Competitive Pay: $17.00 per hour
  , plus shift differential pay for applicable shifts!
• Sign‑On Bonus: $500 Sign‑On Bonus for Eligible Applicants!
• Work‑Life Balance:
  Monday‑Friday schedule. 1st and 2nd shift opportunities.
• Outstanding Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, retirement contributions, life insurance (multiple, low‑cost plans), and flexible spending accounts. Participation in the nationally ranked pension Wisconsin Retirement System with employee match!
• Generous Paid Leave: Vacation benefits that increase over time, nine paid legal holidays, 4.5 paid personal holidays, paid sick leave, and more!
• Community Connection: Be part of a close‑knit campus community where your presence makes a visible impact every day.
  Mentor our Project Search Interns.
• No experience required! We will train you!

• Effectively perform and meet cleaning and maintenance expectations in assigned areas.
• Maintain clean and clear walkways to ensure they are free of debris, litter, snow, and ice.
• Maintain organization of supply areas and equipment.
• Work with campus customers, co‑workers, and supervisors as a team.
• Remove waste and recyclables from assigned residential areas using equipment and supplies.
• Assemble and move furniture, equipment and deliver supplies as needed or requested.
• Operate specialized machinery and work with chemicals.

• Ability to bend, stoop, kneel, move furnishings and work on feet for prolonged periods of time.
• Ability to safely lift up to 50 pounds with or without mechanical assistance.
• Excellent communication skills
• Basic computer skills.
• Ability to read work instructions and schedules, warning labels and instructions for equipment operation.
• H.S. Diploma or GED

Please apply online on our applicant portal. Documents required for application include a current resume and a list of references.

Don’t have access to a computer or resume? No problem—call 608‑342‑1176 or stop by 3200 Ullsvik Hall for assistance.

For questions about the position, please email John Niehaus at niehausj

Employment will require a criminal background check. It will also require you and your references to answer questions regarding sexual violence and sexual harassment.

The University ensures physical accessibility to work environments for persons with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations to ensure equal access to employment. Upon request, the University will provide reasonable accommodations for religious observances and practices.

The University is committed to a program of affirmative action for women, racial minorities, persons with disabilities, disabled veterans and veterans of the Vietnam era. While the Chancellor assumes overall…