Highlights
In this hands-on leadership role, you will help maintain clean, safe, and welcoming academic buildings, residence halls, and common areas while leading a team of custodians and housekeepers. Perform cleaning duties in classrooms, residence halls, offices, common areas, restrooms, and high-traffic campus spaces.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Savannah, GA |
| Industry | Food and Beverage Production |
| Salary | $18–$19 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1936 |
| Website | https://www.aramark.com/ |
Description
Job Description
Savannah, GA | $18.00 - $19.00 per hour
Aramark Facilities Management is hiring a Housekeeping Lead to support housekeeping operations on the SCAD campus in Savannah, Georgia. In this hands-on leadership role, you will help maintain clean, safe, and welcoming academic buildings, residence halls, and common areas while leading a team of custodians and housekeepers. You will assign daily work, inspect completed cleaning tasks, train team members, and help ensure quality standards are consistently met. This position is ideal for candidates with custodial, housekeeping, janitorial, or facilities maintenance experience who enjoy leading by example. The work environment is active and fast-paced, requiring flexibility, attention to detail, and reliable attendance.
Job Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Assign and coordinate daily work schedules for housekeeping and custodial team members.
- Monitor work performance and inspect completed cleaning tasks to ensure quality standards are met.
- Lead, coach, and support team members while promoting accountability and productivity.
- Train new employees and provide retraining as needed on cleaning procedures, equipment use, and safety standards.
- Perform cleaning duties in classrooms, residence halls, offices, common areas, restrooms, and high-traffic campus spaces.
- Operate and maintain housekeeping equipment and cleaning tools.
- Follow proper procedures for trash collection, disposal, and recycling.
- Conduct quality inspections and address service or cleanliness concerns promptly.
- Submit maintenance and repair requests through established work order processes.
- Ensure compliance with safety procedures, PPE requirements, and Aramark standards.
- Help maintain a clean, organized, and hazard-free work environment.
- Secure equipment rooms and company assets as required.
Secure equipment rooms and company assets as required.
Qualifications
Required
- Previous housekeeping, custodial, janitorial, hospitality, or facilities cleaning experience.
- Strong communication and leadership skills.
- Ability to lead, coach, and hold team members accountable.
- Ability to inspect work and maintain high cleaning and sanitation standards.
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision.
- Knowledge of cleaning procedures, safe chemical use, and housekeeping equipment.
- Reliable attendance and punctuality.
- Ability to lift, bend, push, pull, walk, and stand for extended periods.
- Ability to wear required uniforms and personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Flexibility to work mornings, evenings, weekends, special events, and occasional overtime based on business needs.
Preferred
- Prior housekeeping lead, supervisor, or team lead experience.
- Experience working in higher education, hospitality, healthcare, or large facilities environments.
- Experience conducting quality inspections and training employees.
Education
About Aramark
Our Mission
Rooted in service and united by our purpose, we strive to do great things for each other, our partners, our communities, and our planet.
At Aramark, we believe that every employee should enjoy equal employment opportunity and be free to participate in all aspects of the company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, pregnancy, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military status, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by applicable law.
About Aramark
The people of Aramark proudly serve millions of guests every day through food and facilities in 15 countries around the world. Rooted in service and united by our purpose, we strive to do great things for each other, our partners, our communities, and our planet. We believe a career should develop your talents, fuel your passions, and empower your professional growth. So, no matter what youre pursuing - a new challenge, a sense of belonging, or just a great place to work - our focus is helping you reach your full potential. Learn more about working here at http://www.aramarkcareers.com or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
About Company
We focus on enriching and nourishing the lives of millions all over the world, providing a wide range of services—food, facilities and uniforms—to a diverse group of clients in 19 countries. We serve world champion sports teams, Fortune 500 companies, state-of-the-art healthcare providers and the world’s leading educational institutions. And every day, we dream of ways to do it better through our commitment to innovation and our passion for excellent customer service.
Innovation inspired by you
The better we know the people we serve, the greater the experiences we can develop. Whether it’s food service, facilities or uniforms, our proprietary programs allow us to understand the wants and needs of our audiences.
Armed with that knowledge, our Service Stars spring into action, combining insights and ingenuity to deliver moments that make a difference. These innovations could be game-changing campus transformations. Or a simpler, quicker way for you to access condiments at the ballpark. In any case, our innovations help create experiences that make an impact.
Beyond great service
Another key part of what makes us different is something we call service excellence.
To us, service excellence isn’t just about providing great customer service. It also means using time-tested practices and proven processes to get it right every day, everywhere, in everything that we do. And it's also about striking the perfect balance between doing something well over and over again and being responsive enough to the changing needs of clients and customers. It’s being open to the continuing cycle of innovation. Excellent, but never satisfied. Process-driven, but never locked in place.
We never stop thinking of new, better ways to get it right when our people impact the lives of clients and consumers every day.
Our people make all the difference—we make sure of it
Our commitment to hiring, training and rewarding the right people ensures that our employees are more than just hard workers. They’re Service Stars, and that means they can be counted on to go above and beyond, every single day.
We understand that many times our people are literally the face of your business. That’s why all 270,000 Service Stars receive continual access to professional development and proprietary skills training.
The bottom line is this: when you work with Aramark, you can be confident you’ll be collaborating with the right people with the right skills and the right attitude. That’s true whether it’s for strategic expertise, operational excellence or just serving a morning coffee. That’s our commitment as trusted partners and Service Stars. That’s the Aramark way.