Primary Category Page: Staff and Management Department: Maintenance and Energy Services Position covered by the Collective Agreement with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 1334 Temporary part time from 08/23/2026 to 05/28/2027 (with option to extend) (Initial Shift Assignment: Weekends - Saturdays + Sundays + Mondays, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm (8 hrs/day, 24 hrs/week max) As an integral part of the University team, you will work closely together to ensure that all residents, guests, and staff receive a clean, safe, secure, comfortable, and fully maintained environment. As a Custodian in Physical Resources, you will be a vital part of the University’s frontline, working in the student residential, guest, and employee environments. You will ensure your areas are clean and well stocked facilities while performing your work as scheduled and prioritized in accordance with the Department’s standards of cleanliness and service.

A minimum Grade 10 education (Grade 12 preferred), preferably combined with one (1) year custodial experience from a major institutional sector(s), such as education, post-secondary education, medical/ hospital, or service industry.



In your role as a Custodian, you may be required to use various hazardous workplace materials such as environmentally safe and chemical cleaning products. Routine physical activities include standing, walking, bending, crouching, reaching, lifting, and carrying light objects comfortably (less than 25 pounds).

May be exposed to biohazardous materials, including bodily fluids, vomit, urine, blood etc., Employees may be able to access the University’s extensive health and dental plan, scholarships and/or tuition waivers for dependents, substantial vacation and holiday provisions, on-site childcare, university pension plan, subsidized athletic facility membership, confidential counseling services through the University’s Employee & Family Assistance Program as well as subsidized transit (*subject to meeting eligibility criteria and program availability).

Employee Type: Temporary 0-3 Month Rate: $ 27.78 per hour Job Rate: $ 29.23 per hour At the University of Guelph, fostering a culture of inclusion is an institutional imperative.

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