Position-Specific Responsibilities

As a Custodian, you will perform routine custodial and maintenance tasks to ensure a clean working and living environment for students, staff, and visitors, ensuring all areas are clean and safe. Hours of work are 11:00 AM to 7:30 PM.

Technical responsibilities of this position include but are not limited to:

• Making beds, sweeping, climbing stairs on a regular basis, cleaning windows and furniture, light furniture moving, project floor maintenance, and other cleaning duties associated with general custodial work
• Assisting with manual snow removal from walkways and steps
• Performing interior and exterior maintenance including prepping and painting, light carpentry projects, preventative maintenance, and other tasks as specified
• Working efficiently with a variety of custodial equipment and materials, including but not limited to backpack vacuums, canister vacuums, buffers, and cleaners
• Maintaining common areas and walkways (indoors and outdoors)
• Removing recycling
• Assisting with set-up for a variety of activities (concerts, weddings, weekend events)
• Knowledge of and assisting with the maintenance of the Living Machine and its operation

Non-technical responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Training other staff to develop their skills
• Communicating operative needs to Director of Facilities
• Tracking and fulfilling work orders
• Keeping written records as required
• Maintaining supplies and requesting supplies as needed

Additional Requirements:

• Proficiency in the following custodial and maintenance tasks: mopping floors, cleaning bathrooms, vacuuming (using a backpack vacuum and carpet vacuum), and dusting
• Ability to utilize various products safely and as instructed
• Ability to work on a six-foot ladder
• Ability and willingness to assist in emergencies
• Ability to participate in snow/ice removal, event set-up
• Willingness to attend meetings and training
• Ability and willingness to perform work outside of normal hours or work overtime if required
• Other duties as assigned

Use of Own Vehicle:

You will be required to occasionally use your own vehicle to drive around campus and/or make short trips to town to pick up supplies. To offset mileage and wear and tear on your vehicle, you will be paid an annual flat rate distributed over a twelve-month period on a bi-weekly basis in addition to your hourly rate.

Required Skills / Qualifications:

• Knowledge of the occupational hazards and safety precautions associated with cleaning products
• Ability to work with others in a team environment and or perform work independently
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with various members of the community, including faculty, administrators, trustees, parents, and students
• Valid driver’s license
• High School diploma or equivalent

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential responsibilities of this position.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear
• The employee is required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to find, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms
• Must be able to bend, reach, stoop, stand and/or walk for extended periods of time
• Must be able to climb ladders
• Must frequently lift and/or move objects up to 50 pounds safely and consistently; may need to lift and carry objects greater than 50 pounds
• Must be able to work outdoors in adverse weather conditions including heat, cold, sun, rain, snow, and humidity
• Must be able to work in environments with adverse conditions including dirt, dust, and pollen, odors, dampness, and noise
• The position requires an extensive amount of walking around campus and through buildings, climbing stairs, and driving

About Darrow School

The Darrow School, an independent, co-ed, boarding and day school for grades 9-12, offers a comprehensive and individually focused college-preparatory curriculum that features a unique combination of classroom instruction, experiential learning, and environmental consciousness. The school is located on 365 acres in the town of New Lebanon, on the New York State side of the Berkshires, and comprises 26 buildings, 16 of which are Shaker-built and designated as Registered National Historic Landmark buildings.

Why Work at Darrow?

There is something indefinable and remarkable about Darrow School. Perhaps it’s our historic Shaker Heritage or our location nestled between the Berkshire Mountains and the Hudson Valley. Or maybe it's our community of individuals where everyone feels welcome and celebrated. Darrow is a place that draws people together, connects them, and stays with them forever.

Darrow offers a generous benefits package that includes retirement; health, life, and disability insurance plans; and generous paid time off. Some positions are year-round; others offer an academic year schedule.

There's so much to enjoy about living and working at Darrow, and the community offers something for everyone. Our faculty and staff have said that some of the reasons they love working at Darrow include meaningful work, feeling of inclusion and acceptance, and friendly and familiar faces on campus. Darrow is a small community with a big heart.

Living, Breathing History

With just over 100 students from around the world, Darrow offers faculty, staff, and students a dynamic boarding school experience. Founded in 1932 on a beautiful 365-acre Mountainside campus, we are the only boarding school community on a National Historic Landmark. Our campus was once home to the Mount Lebanon Shaker Society, renowned for its commitment to social and racial justice, community planning, architecture, and entrepreneurship.

Mission and Values

Darrow serves diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on individuals' talents and interests to deepen thinking with specialized programs, providing opportunities to explore the creative spaces where ideas intersect and solutions emerge. Our Active Curriculum, rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, is individually focused and combines innovative classroom instruction with project-based learning to educate future generations of global citizens who understand the wider world and their place in it.

Our Guiding Values

Growth

We prioritize growth over perfection, recognizing that each individual has their own gifts, challenges, and goals to build from. Our students are safe to fail creatively, which is essential for true learning. They routinely revise and reflect on their work on their way toward mastery.

Diversity

We believe that the opportunity to learn and grow in a small, diverse community during your formative years is irreplaceable. We actively cultivate and celebrate a student body that is diverse along many dimensions, including racial and ethnic diversity, diversity of gender identity, and neurodiversity.

Community

Like the Mohicans and Shakers who inhabited this place before us, we believe in the power of an intentional community built around shared work and shared values. Darrow is deliberately small, which means that each community member is valued and influential.

Compassion

We seek to treat each other with compassion, recognizing that we may only know a small part of someone else’s story.

Authenticity

We aspire to be a place where young people become comfortable in their own skins and empowered to understand and share their authentic selves.

Campus Life

There's always something exciting and thought-provoking happening at Darrow. Enjoying a lively campus culture, faculty and staff have opportunities to regularly attend and participate in a diverse array of year-round events, including Hands-to-Work, Winterm, Tuesday Night Community Programming, fitness classes, concerts, performances, talks, lectures, live theater, and art exhibitions. Additionally, there are countless opportunities for collaboration on several campus-wide projects and initiatives for those seeking to serve their community.

Darrow School is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed (religion), color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, age, disability, predisposing genetic characteristic, marital status or domestic violence victim status, and shall also follow the requirements of the Human Rights Law with regard to non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.

Darrow School does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national or ethnic origin, gender, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation in the administration of any of its admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, educational, athletic, recreational, and other school-administered programs.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $17.00 - $18.50 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Opportunities for advancement
• Paid time off
• Paid training
• Vision insurance

Physical setting:

• School

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Afternoon shift
• Evening shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed
• Year round work

Ability to Commute:

• New Lebanon, NY 12125 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• New Lebanon, NY 12125: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person