Custodial Manager

Custodial Manager

The Musco (https://www.musco.com/) Facilities team has an opening for a Custodial Manager at our Oskaloosa office. If your experience aligns with the qualifications outlined below, we look forward to hearing from you!

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Essential Criteria:

• High School diploma or equivalent required.

• 4+ years of experience leading, training, coordinating, or managing a team required.

• 2+ years of custodial, commercial cleaning, hospitality, or related experience preferred.

• Experience with floor-care equipment, custodial chemicals, cleaning procedures, scheduling, and inventory management preferred.

• Working knowledge of commercial cleaning methods, chemicals, equipment, and safety practices.

• Ability to lead employees while also working alongside the team.

• Skills to organize and prioritize routine work, service requests, staffing coverage, and special projects.

• Capacity to make timely operational decisions when staffing or building conditions change.

• Strong communication, coaching, problem-solving, and follow-through skills.

• Ability to inspect work objectively, communicate needed corrections, and verify completion.

• Aptitude to maintain accurate schedules, records, supply information, and work-order documentation.

• Capable of interacting professionally with team members, internal customers, vendors, and leadership.

• Ability to learn and use applicable scheduling, communication, work-order, inventory, and Microsoft 365 tools.

• Must pass a pre-employment physical, drug screen, and background check.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and support custodial staff; provide feedback and promote teamwork, accountability, respectful communication, and service.

• Schedule building and shift coverage, adjust daily priorities and assignments, coordinate supplemental support, and hold team meetings and handoffs.

• Onboard and train staff in cleaning, equipment, chemicals, safety, and procedures; document required training.

• Perform cleaning, floor care, and projects to cover absences, shortages, peak workloads, events, and urgent service needs.

• Inspect cleaning across buildings and shifts, document concerns, clarify expectations, and verify corrections to keep facilities clean, safe, stocked, and ready.

• Build positive internal customer relationships; professionally and promptly address requests, spills, restroom needs, weather-related issues, and building concerns.

• Enforce safety procedures, SOPs, PPE, Safety Data Sheets, labels, and equipment instructions; address hazards with Facilities and EHS.

• Manage inventories, par levels, ordering, receiving, distribution, and secure storage; reduce waste and arrange equipment maintenance, repairs, and replacement.

• Maintain schedules, training and inspection records, inventory, and work orders; prioritize and track tasks, projects, and owners around access, events, maintenance, construction, and operations.

• Manage staffing, contracts, service, safety, vendor, supply, and facility concerns; perform other duties as assigned.

Additional Requirements:

• Regular split shifts are required to address daytime and nighttime matters and maintain effective communication with all custodial staff.

• Weekend work and extended weekday hours may be required.

• Must be comfortable combining leadership and administrative duties with hands-on custodial work.

• Must maintain a driver's license and be able to travel between assigned Musco facilities as required.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

• Innovative problem-solving with a team-oriented mindset.

• Familiarity with Musco solutions is a plus.

Who is Musco:

For more than 50 years, Musco has specialized in sports and large-area lighting and technology, providing innovative solutions for projects in more than 135 countries. Headquartered in Oskaloosa, Iowa, Musco has more than 2,100 team members worldwide. Musco was named an Iowa Top Workplace by The Des Moines Register (2023–2026) and a USA TODAY Top Workplace (2025–2026). Learn more at www.musco.com.

Team Culture and Partnerships:

At Musco, we offer meaningful work in a team-first culture with continuous learning and professional development. We value work-life balance, providing flexibility for community involvement, family activities, and personal time. We have a generous benefit package created with the Team in mind. It includes varying health insurance plans, vision and dental insurance, PTO, 401k, profit sharing, and more!

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