NUI Maintenance I/Custodian YR

NUI Maintenance I/Custodian YR

North Slope Borough School District Nuiqsut, AK 99789, USA May 04, 2026 Full time

Perform a variety of semi-skilled duties with supervision in the cleaning and maintenance of District Facilities.

Requirements

To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

• A high school diploma or equivalent general education degree.
• Three months of related experience and/or training.

Language Skills and Abilities:

• Read and interpret procedures, policies, and regulations such as safety rules, operating, and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Write routine reports and correspondence.
• Effectively present information and respond to questions from supervisor, staff, and public.

Preference: Inupiaq-speaking and cultural experience preferred.

Mathematical Skills and Abilities:

• Add, subtract two-digit numbers, and multiply and divide using 10's and 100's.
• Apply these operations to units involving U.S. currency, weight, volume, and distance measurements.

Reasoning Ability:

• Resolve practical problems and handle a variety of non-standard situations.
• Interpret various types of instructions provided in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule formats.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Lift 70 pounds.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist in keeping District facilities in a neat, clean, and safe condition as required.
• Assist in the maintenance and storage of District Property.
• Assist in restocking and expediting material within District facilities.
• Assist in the implementation of the preventative maintenance program for the District.
• Report unauthorized persons and/or damages to the appropriate authority as required.
• Adhere to all District policies and regulations.
• Attend District training as required.
• Perform such other tasks and assume other responsibilities as the supervisor may assign.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described below are representative of what an employee must be capable of to perform the essential functions of this position successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to fulfill these essential functions.

While performing the job duties, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently must stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and communicate verbally and listen. Occasionally, the employee may be required to climb or balance.

The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds regularly. Specific visual abilities required for this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Environmental Conditions:

The work environment characteristics described here are typical of those an employee encounters when performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to assist individuals with disabilities in performing these essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts and is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and the risk of electrical shock.

The noise level in the work environment is generally moderate.

Benefits:

Work Year: Year-Round

Range and Minimum Salary Grade:

• Grade 13

$24.02 - $37.12 (Based on Experience)

The North Slope Borough School District is located at the "top of the world" in Northern Alaska. Our communities are populated predominantly by the Iupiat, and today, as in many thousands of years past, we live the Iupiaq way. Having embraced modern amenities that make life easier, we continue to practice our hunting and sharing traditions and very much value the structure that those activities bring into our lives.

We are a welcoming and friendly people who believe strongly in the value of education. Our highly trained certified and classified staff are dedicated to serving the children of our communities. They work together to meet the unique needs of every student in the district.

Our students are fully immersed in preparing for tomorrow while honoring and perpetuating the priceless traditions and culture they have as a legacy from the past. Our children exude all the warmth and sunshine one could ever hope to find.

We are led by a visionary board. Their mission for our district calls for every child to become proficient in reading, writing and mathematics while gaining an understanding of and appreciation for the values, culture, history and language of the Iupiat.