About the role
Caretaker
Summary:
Reporting directly to the Custodial Supervisor, this front-line role plays a key part in delivering excellent customer service within a dynamic residential environment. The Caretaker interacts regularly with students and Residence Team members, often in a setting with shifting priorities, frequent interruptions, and tight deadlines. The ideal candidate is self-driven, proactive, and capable of working effectively both independently and collaboratively. This position requires maintaining high cleaning standards while performing physically demanding tasks and handling cleaning agents and solvents safely.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Clean and sanitize washrooms, including all fixtures and surfaces
- Maintain cleanliness in common areas, student rooms, and apartments
- Clean garbage rooms and household appliances such as stoves and refrigerators
- Perform floor care using dry/wet mops, brooms, vacuums, shampooers, auto scrubbers, and floor finishing equipment (stripping, waxing, polishing)
- Replace light bulbs as needed throughout the facility
- Maintain and clean custodial equipment to ensure proper functioning
- Wash walls, windows, and other surfaces as required
- Set up conference rooms for meetings and events
- Shovel snow up to six feet from building entrances to maintain safe access
- Coordinate with Protective Services to assist with student lockouts
- Move Loraas garbage tanks to designated pickup locations
- Perform other related duties as assigned by the supervisor
Education:
- Grade 12 diploma.
- WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System) certification is considered an asset
Experience:
- Minimum of one year of caretaking and/or cleaning experience in an institutional setting
- Experience working safely with cleaning chemicals, power cleaning equipment, and floor waxing systems is an asset
Skills:
- Proven customer service skills and the ability to work effectively as part of a team
- Physically capable of lifting and carrying items weighing up to 50 lbs
- Must be able to provide a current and satisfactory Criminal Record Check as a condition of employment
Department: Residence
Status: Term 1 year with the possibility of extension or becoming permanent
Employment Group: CUPE 1975
Shift: Shifts include evenings, weekends and/or stat holidays and are subject to change based on business.
Full Time Equivalent (FTE): 1.0
Salary: The salary range, based on 1.0 FTE, is $16.35 - 19.61 per hour. The starting salary will be commensurate with education and experience.
Salary Family (if applicable): Facility Services
Salary Phase/Band: Phase 1
Posted Date: 7/16/2025
Closing Date: 8/12/2025 at 6:00 pm CST
Number of Openings: 3
Work Location: On Campus
The successful applicant will be required to provide the following current verification(s) where 'Yes' is indicated below. Further information is available at: https://careers.usask.ca/tips-for-applying.php
Criminal Record Check: Yes
Driver's License and Abstract Check: Not Applicable
Education/Credential Verification: Not Applicable
Vulnerable Sector Check: Not Applicable
The University is committed to employment equity, diversity, and inclusion, and are proud to support career opportunities for Indigenous peoples to reflect the community we serve. We are dedicated to recruiting individuals who will enrich our work and learning environments. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. We are committed to providing accommodations to those with a disability or medical necessity. If you require an accommodation to participate in the recruitment process, please notify us and we will work together on the accommodation request. We continue to grow our partnerships with Indigenous communities across the province, nationally, and internationally and value the unique perspective that Indigenous employees provide to strengthen these relationships. Verification of Indigenous Membership/Citizenship at the University of Saskatchewan is led and determined by the deybwewin | taapwaywin | tapwewin: Indigenous Truth policy and Standing Committee in accordance with the processes developed to enact the policy. Successful candidates that assert Indigenous membership/citizenship will be asked to complete the verification process of Indigenous membership/citizenship with documentation. The University of Saskatchewan’s main campus is situated on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis. We pay our respects to the First Nations and Métis ancestors of this place and reaffirm our relationship with one another. Together, we are uplifting Indigenization to a place of prominence at the University of Saskatchewan.
About University of Saskatchewan
The University of Saskatchewan (USask) is leading the way in tackling pressing problems like water and food security. Research, teaching and learning at USask is enhanced by our array of world-class facilities, including the Canadian Light Source synchrotron, VIDO-InterVac, the Global Institute for Food Security, the Global Institute for Water Security and the Sylvia Fedoruk Centre for Nuclear Innovation.
A range of excellent programs, from business, law and public policy to engineering, medicine and veterinary medicine, positions us to cross traditional discipline boundaries and work together to bring a unique perspective to key global challenges. With more than 25,000 students from around the globe, including nearly 3,000 self-declared Indigenous students and more than 3,000 international students, our strong community and well-recognized experts will continue to drive USask to be the university the world needs.
About the role
Caretaker
Summary:
Reporting directly to the Custodial Supervisor, this front-line role plays a key part in delivering excellent customer service within a dynamic residential environment. The Caretaker interacts regularly with students and Residence Team members, often in a setting with shifting priorities, frequent interruptions, and tight deadlines. The ideal candidate is self-driven, proactive, and capable of working effectively both independently and collaboratively. This position requires maintaining high cleaning standards while performing physically demanding tasks and handling cleaning agents and solvents safely.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Clean and sanitize washrooms, including all fixtures and surfaces
- Maintain cleanliness in common areas, student rooms, and apartments
- Clean garbage rooms and household appliances such as stoves and refrigerators
- Perform floor care using dry/wet mops, brooms, vacuums, shampooers, auto scrubbers, and floor finishing equipment (stripping, waxing, polishing)
- Replace light bulbs as needed throughout the facility
- Maintain and clean custodial equipment to ensure proper functioning
- Wash walls, windows, and other surfaces as required
- Set up conference rooms for meetings and events
- Shovel snow up to six feet from building entrances to maintain safe access
- Coordinate with Protective Services to assist with student lockouts
- Move Loraas garbage tanks to designated pickup locations
- Perform other related duties as assigned by the supervisor
Education:
- Grade 12 diploma.
- WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System) certification is considered an asset
Experience:
- Minimum of one year of caretaking and/or cleaning experience in an institutional setting
- Experience working safely with cleaning chemicals, power cleaning equipment, and floor waxing systems is an asset
Skills:
- Proven customer service skills and the ability to work effectively as part of a team
- Physically capable of lifting and carrying items weighing up to 50 lbs
- Must be able to provide a current and satisfactory Criminal Record Check as a condition of employment
Department: Residence
Status: Term 1 year with the possibility of extension or becoming permanent
Employment Group: CUPE 1975
Shift: Shifts include evenings, weekends and/or stat holidays and are subject to change based on business.
Full Time Equivalent (FTE): 1.0
Salary: The salary range, based on 1.0 FTE, is $16.35 - 19.61 per hour. The starting salary will be commensurate with education and experience.
Salary Family (if applicable): Facility Services
Salary Phase/Band: Phase 1
Posted Date: 7/16/2025
Closing Date: 8/12/2025 at 6:00 pm CST
Number of Openings: 3
Work Location: On Campus
The successful applicant will be required to provide the following current verification(s) where 'Yes' is indicated below. Further information is available at: https://careers.usask.ca/tips-for-applying.php
Criminal Record Check: Yes
Driver's License and Abstract Check: Not Applicable
Education/Credential Verification: Not Applicable
Vulnerable Sector Check: Not Applicable
The University is committed to employment equity, diversity, and inclusion, and are proud to support career opportunities for Indigenous peoples to reflect the community we serve. We are dedicated to recruiting individuals who will enrich our work and learning environments. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. We are committed to providing accommodations to those with a disability or medical necessity. If you require an accommodation to participate in the recruitment process, please notify us and we will work together on the accommodation request. We continue to grow our partnerships with Indigenous communities across the province, nationally, and internationally and value the unique perspective that Indigenous employees provide to strengthen these relationships. Verification of Indigenous Membership/Citizenship at the University of Saskatchewan is led and determined by the deybwewin | taapwaywin | tapwewin: Indigenous Truth policy and Standing Committee in accordance with the processes developed to enact the policy. Successful candidates that assert Indigenous membership/citizenship will be asked to complete the verification process of Indigenous membership/citizenship with documentation. The University of Saskatchewan’s main campus is situated on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis. We pay our respects to the First Nations and Métis ancestors of this place and reaffirm our relationship with one another. Together, we are uplifting Indigenization to a place of prominence at the University of Saskatchewan.
About University of Saskatchewan
The University of Saskatchewan (USask) is leading the way in tackling pressing problems like water and food security. Research, teaching and learning at USask is enhanced by our array of world-class facilities, including the Canadian Light Source synchrotron, VIDO-InterVac, the Global Institute for Food Security, the Global Institute for Water Security and the Sylvia Fedoruk Centre for Nuclear Innovation.
A range of excellent programs, from business, law and public policy to engineering, medicine and veterinary medicine, positions us to cross traditional discipline boundaries and work together to bring a unique perspective to key global challenges. With more than 25,000 students from around the globe, including nearly 3,000 self-declared Indigenous students and more than 3,000 international students, our strong community and well-recognized experts will continue to drive USask to be the university the world needs.