A custodian keeps buildings clean and safe. Their duties include sweeping, mopping floors, emptying trash, dusting, cleaning restrooms, and restocking supplies like paper and soap. They also maintain cleaning equipment. Some custodians deal with biohazards while others do minor repairs. No formal education is required for custodians, but employers often want high school diplomas. Duties vary between settings like schools and churches.
Custodians earn around $27,500 yearly. They require physical endurance to cover large spaces with a diligent, detail-oriented approach.
Custodians in Financial Institutions
Banks that safeguard assets like stocks and gold act as custodians. Key duties are safekeeping assets, processing associated transactions, and accounting, settlement, recordkeeping and reporting.
Role of School Custodians
A school custodian cleans the buildings, equipment, and furnishings of a school. As a school custodian, your responsibilities include ensuring the common areas, offices, and classrooms are clean. You also maintain the cleaning equipment and ensure everything needed for cleaning the school is stocked and ready.
School custodians are responsible for keeping schools clean and safe by working with a team of other school employees, including janitors, maintenance workers, and teachers. They play a vital role in ensuring cleanliness, organization, and overall maintenance of a school facility. Additionally, school custodians may also be responsible for light repairs and assisting with facility setup for events.
The best custodians are comfortable working independently, have repair and maintenance skills, and are service-oriented. Common responsibilities for school custodian jobs include maintaining clean floors and emptying and cleaning trash receptacles.
Custodians must be prepared to do things like moving heavy furniture to reach corners, cracks and crevices of covered parts of the room. They may have to clean laboratory equipment, such as computers and tables, mow and trim lawns and clean chimneys, flues and pipes with the use of power tools. Required skills include reading comprehension, coordination, oral comprehension and equipment selection.
Since the safety of students is of utmost importance in a school, school custodians need to make sure that their work does not put students at risk, such as placing a “wet floor” sign after mopping. Schools usually hire people who have a high school diploma as custodians.