Custodial Supervisor, Housing

The University of Virginia is excited to announce an opportunity within FM’s Housing Zone for a Custodial Supervisor. This position offers the unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our community's daily life, ensuring our living spaces are not only clean but also welcoming and safe. This vital position is responsible for helping to ensure that our university housing facilities—encompassing 8,500 beds across 187 buildings and totaling 3 million square feet of residential space—are maintained to the highest standards of cleanliness and safety. Our diverse portfolio includes single-family homes, traditional residence halls, and apartments, presenting a unique and rewarding challenge for our custodial team.

Role Overview

As the Custodial Supervisor, you will lead a dynamic team of 10-15, dedicated to ensuring our university housing remains a beacon of cleanliness, health, and vibrancy. Your mission is to uphold the highest standards of custodial service through effective team supervision, meticulous scheduling, and comprehensive training. Key to success is your ability to forge positive, professional relationships across the campus community, including with facility occupants, staff, colleagues, students, visitors, and leadership. You'll be at the heart of ensuring our living environments are not only maintained to the highest standards but also reflect our commitment to development, excellence, and respect.

This role demands a collaborative spirit, an appreciation for interdisciplinary teamwork, and a drive to make a significant impact. If you're motivated by leadership that makes a difference and thrives in a supportive, ambitious environment, you are the candidate we are looking for!

Responsibilities Include

Leadership & Team Management: Guide, mentor, and inspire your team towards achieving and exceeding departmental expectations through effective supervision, coaching, and performance management. Operational Excellence & Collaboration: Oversee the scheduling and execution of routine and special custodial tasks, ensuring operations are safe, efficient, and meet the highest standards. Collaborate closely with maintenance leadership to coordinate activities and ensure a seamless operational environment. Training & Development: Lead training initiatives to ensure the team is proficient in the latest custodial techniques and safety protocols, fostering professional growth and skill enhancement. Stakeholder Engagement: Maintain positive, professional relationships with all stakeholders, including facility occupants, staff, colleagues, students, visitors, and department leadership, ensuring custodial services align with university community needs. Project Management & Additional Responsibilities: Manage small to medium-sized custodial projects, ensuring timely, within-scope, and budget-compliant completion while working closely with maintenance leadership to ensure a unified approach to facility management. This collaboration includes supporting our HVAC PMs and overseeing essential maintenance tasks such as eye-wash station PMs and mechanical room inspections.

Duties Include

Develop and implement custodial work schedules for assigned areas. Maintain written records of work scheduled and completed. Supervise members of custodial team and provide them with frequent and constructive feedback. Ensure all required custodial projects are completed in a timely, professional manner. Track purchases and update inventories. Conduct and submit routine safety inspections. Ability to work independently, be proactive with managing workload, and anticipate operational/small-scale projects. In addition to the above job responsibilities, other duties may be assigned.

Minimum Requirements

Education: High school diploma or equivalent Experience: A minimum of two years of experience in custodial/housekeeping or another service industry is required. Experience in custodial maintenance, including the ability to demonstrate use of cleaning equipment and supplies, along with experience in a leadership or supervisory capacity is a plus. Licensure: A valid driver's license, with a zero or positive points balance is required and must be maintained while in this position.

Anticipated Hiring Range: $21.00-23.50/hour dependent on qualifications and experience. $1,500 sign-on bonus for all new hires to the University!

This is a full-time position with UVA benefits. Employees benefits package highlights include:

22 days of paid time off, increasing with service; 13+ paid holidays each year, in addition to paid time off Parental and Community Service Leave Health plan with options to meet healthcare and financial needs Retirement through the Virginia Retirement System Tuition and professional development benefits Employee wellness program featuring activities to earn up to $500/year.

Physical Demands

This position involves working with equipment/machinery, and includes standing on different surfaces, walking extensively, stooping and bending as well as moderate lifting and climbing stairs.

The selected candidate will need to complete the following background checks: Criminal, Sexual Offender and DMV.

Application Process

Ready to make a difference? Apply today to join our team as a Custodial Supervisor – by applying online and searching for R0059809. Internal applicants must apply through their UVA Workday profile by searching ‘Find Jobs.’ Complete an application online with the following documents:

Resume Cover letter

Upload all materials into the resume submission field, multiple documents can be submitted into this one field. Alternatively, merge all documents into one PDF for submission. Applications that do not contain all required documents will not receive full consideration.

References will be completed via UVA’s standardized process SkillSurvey. A total of five references will be requested via SkillSurvey during the final phase of the interview process. A minimum of three is required.

For information regarding the position or the application process, please contact Jessica Speth, js9rk@virginia.edu.

The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System which represents the UVA Medical Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA Physician’s Group and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, are fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspectives and lived experiences. We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.