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Facilities Building Worker - West Circle

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MIPer Diem$16/hrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago

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Compensation
$16/hr
Location
East Lansing, MI
Schedule
Per Diem
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Facilities Building Worker performs scheduled maintenance, cleaning, and minor repair duties in residence halls and other building areas. The position primarily serves the West Circle neighborhood, with scheduling that may include shifts in Brody Neighborhood. Duties include cleaning floors, bathrooms, furnishings, and entrances; handling linens and supplies; completing painting projects; and reporting building or equipment issues.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Building CleaningMinor RepairsPainting

Full job description

**Starting rate $16/hr. ** This position is primarily for West Circle (Williams, Mayo, Yakeley, Gilchrist, Landon, and Campbell) neighborhood, which is part of the larger North Neighbood. Scheduling may include shifts in Brody Neighborhood (Rather, Butterfield, Bryan, Armstrong, Bailey, and Emmons Hall). As an On-Call Service Maintenance Worker, you will perform regularly scheduled maintenance, cleaning, and minor repair duties in areas such as the following: Male bathrooms, halls, stairways, lobbies, dining rooms, Male apartments, Male student rooms, study lounges, pressing rooms, offices, and inside entryways. Typical Duties May Include: · Dust mops, operates vacuums, or sweeps floor areas. · Wet mops lavatories, bathrooms, and shower areas with light weight mop. · Washes window glass, casings, tracks, ledges, and venetian blinds. · Handles, counts, and mends linens. · Spot washes walls to remove such items as splash marks around sinks and fingerprints from light switches. · Shampoos and cleans upholstery on chairs and sofas. · Re-supplies toilet tissue, towels, and similar items in restrooms, showers, and locker rooms. · Empties and cleans wastepaper baskets and cigarette ash receptacles. · Dusts furniture, office equipment, and surfaces subject to dust accumulation. · Turns in lost and found articles to Supervisor. · Cleans and clears trash from building entrances, sweeps or shovels snow from building entrances, and empties ash urns at building entrances. - - Carry out minor to moderate painting projects at Brody and West Circle halls. - Assist with minor repairs. · Reports damage, malfunction, or irregularities of the building or equipment to Supervisor. · Cleans and replaces cleaning equipment and supplies at end of work period. Work Location = Brody Facilities (Loc)

How this job compares

Set against the 298 open Maintenance Worker jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$16/hr
  • US median$18–19/hr103 hourly ranges

This rate, $16/hr, is 13% below the US median midpoint ($18/hr) — in the middle half of Maintenance Worker hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 15 open Maintenance Worker jobs in Michigan and 298 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
Maintenance Worker postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (67 postings).
Education
1 of the 298 open Maintenance Worker jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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