Custodial Day Shift Manager

Hanover, NH

The Custodial Day Shift Manager oversees daily custodial operations during the assigned day shift, ensuring a clean, safe, and well-maintained environment across a large and diverse campus portfolio. This role leads multiple supervisors and team leads who oversee a sizable custodial workforce, ensuring compliance with safety and sanitation protocols, managing staffing, training, equipment, supply procurement, and inventory. The manager also coordinates custodial support for campus events and emergency responses, acting as a key liaison between custodial staff, campus stakeholders, and building occupants to foster collaboration and deliver exceptional service tailored to the needs of a higher education environment.

Dartmouth is seeking a Custodial Day Shift Manager to lead custodial services across a large, vibrant higher education campus. You will oversee three supervisors, two leads, and more than 100 custodial staff who maintain a safe, clean, and welcoming environment spanning millions of square feet. This position offers the chance to manage diverse teams, support campus events, oversee budgets, and respond to emergencies-all while fostering a collaborative and inclusive workplace. If you have proven leadership in custodial or facilities management within residential settings (higher ed, hospital, hotel) or K-12 environments, experience working in unionized settings, and want to make a lasting impact, we invite you to apply and grow with us.

Dartmouth College is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. We prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other legally protected status. Applications by members of all underrepresented groups are encouraged.

Employment in this position is contingent upon consent to and successful completion of a pre-employment background check, which may include a criminal background check, reference checks, verification of work history, conduct review, and verification of any required academic credentials, licenses, and/or certifications, with results acceptable to Dartmouth College. A criminal conviction will not automatically disqualify an applicant from employment. Background check information will be used in a confidential, non-discriminatory manner consistent with state and federal law.

Dartmouth College has a Tobacco-Free Policy. Smoking and the use of tobacco-based products (including smokeless tobacco) are prohibited in all facilities, grounds, vehicles or other areas owned, operated or occupied by Dartmouth College with no exceptions. For details, please see our policy. https://policies.dartmouth.edu/policy/tobacco-free-policy

We are actively striving to make Campus Services a desired place to work in the Upper Valley, a place where people feel welcomed, where they can be their authentic selves, be heard, and feel accepted. We want this culture to be felt by those who receive our services. The way we treat one another should be the same way we treat our customers.