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Janitor resume example

Written by the Bespree Team. Updated September 22, 2026.

This example suits janitors, custodians, building cleaners, and night porters working in schools, offices, and medical or industrial buildings.

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Best fit for

Use this pattern if you are applying for similar roles.

- janitors

- custodians

- night porters

- building cleaners

- floor care technicians

Top skills to highlight

These are the strongest recurring signals for this role family.

Floor careRestroom sanitationWaste and recyclingAuto-scrubber operationChemical safetyBuilding lockupRoute schedulingMinor repairs

Sample summary

Use the structure, not the exact wording.

Janitor with over 5 years of experience covering roughly 60,000 square feet of office and school space on night shift. Handles floor care, restroom sanitation, trash and recycling removal, and building lockup, with chemical handling done to label and safety data sheet instructions.

Why this example works

- The summary quickly signals relevant experience and hiring value.

- The bullets focus on outcomes and clear execution instead of vague task lists.

- The skills align with the language employers commonly use in job descriptions.

Sample experience bullets

Keep your own bullets specific, measurable, and role-relevant.

- Cleaned a nightly route of 18 classrooms, four restrooms, and two corridors across a 62,000 square foot elementary campus.

- Ran the summer floor rotation, stripping, sealing, and waxing roughly 40,000 square feet of tile before each school year.

- Locked the building, set the alarm, and logged every door and light check at the end of each shift.

- Mixed and stored cleaning chemicals to the dilution rates on each safety data sheet, with no reportable exposure incidents.

Common mistakes

- Writing that you cleaned the building without saying how large it was or how much of the route was yours.

- Leaving out floor-care tasks and the equipment you used.

- Skipping chemical handling and safety data sheet training, which leaves a facilities manager assuming you need teaching from scratch.

- Hiding the night and weekend availability that makes a custodial candidate schedulable in the first place.

Full sample resume

A complete fictional resume for this role, written to be read end to end and then rebuilt around your own history.

Cedric Mwangi

Janitor, Night Shift Custodial and Floor Care

Cleveland, OH | cedric.mwangi@example.com

Professional summary

Janitor with over 5 years of experience covering roughly 60,000 square feet of office and school space on night shift. Handles floor care, restroom sanitation, trash and recycling removal, and building lockup, with chemical handling done to label and safety data sheet instructions.

Experience

Custodian

Public school district (elementary campus) · Cleveland, OH · 2022 to Present

  • Cleaned a nightly route of 18 classrooms, four restrooms, and two corridors across a 62,000 square foot elementary campus.
  • Ran the summer floor rotation, stripping, sealing, and waxing roughly 40,000 square feet of tile before each school year.
  • Locked the building, set the alarm, and logged every door and light check at the end of each shift.
  • Mixed and stored cleaning chemicals to the dilution rates on each safety data sheet, with no reportable exposure incidents.
Night Janitor

Multi-tenant office building (12 floors) · Cleveland, OH · 2019 to 2022

  • Cleaned 12 floors of offices, break rooms, and elevator lobbies on a fixed nightly route with one other custodian.
  • Ran a walk-behind auto-scrubber through the lobby and garage entry every night and burnished the main floor weekly.
  • Serviced 24 restrooms a night, restocked paper and soap, and reported plumbing faults to building engineering before tenants arrived.
  • Handled trash and recycling for the whole building, including cardboard baling and two compactor runs a week.
Custodial Assistant

Community recreation center · Akron, OH · 2017 to 2019

  • Opened the building at 5 a.m., unlocked six activity rooms, and set up the gym floor before the first class.
  • Cleaned two locker rooms and the pool deck twice a day using the disinfectant schedule posted by the facility manager.
  • Cleared snow and salted three entrances through two winters so the front walks stayed usable at opening.
  • Logged low stock on the weekly supply order so the closet never ran out mid-week.

Education

  • High school diploma | 2017

Certifications

  • Hazard communication and safety data sheet training, employer provided
  • Bloodborne pathogen training, current

Skills

Floor care · Restroom sanitation · Waste and recycling · Auto-scrubber operation · Chemical safety · Building lockup · Route scheduling · Minor repairs

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How to adapt this sample

  • Put the size of your route in the first bullet: square footage, floor count, or the number of rooms and restrooms you covered in one shift. A facilities manager reads a janitor resume to work out how much building one person can hold, and that is the number most custodial resumes leave out entirely.
  • Describe the floor-care tasks you performed, such as stripping, sealing, waxing, burnishing or carpet extraction. Name the machines you used and the areas you covered.
  • Name the chemicals and dilution systems you handled and say that you worked to the safety data sheet for each one. Add any bloodborne pathogen or hazard communication training with the year. In a school, a clinic, or a food plant this line is checked before anything else on the page.
  • Keep the trust part of the work visible: keys, alarm codes, after-hours access, and working alone in an empty building. Custodial hiring turns on whether someone can be left in a locked building overnight, so state the years you held keys and the closing checks you logged at the end of each shift.

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Janitor resume FAQ

A short summary, the buildings you cleaned with their size and type, the route you covered in a shift, your floor care work, and any safety training. Keep it to one page. Say whether the site was a school, a medical office, an industrial plant, a multi-tenant office building, or a mix, because the standards and the chemicals differ in each. Give every position an employer descriptor, a location and dates, and put the square footage or room count in the first bullet so a facilities manager can see how much building one person held.

Floor care, restroom sanitation, waste and recycling handling, chemical safety, and building lockup. Name the machines you ran by type: walk-behind and ride-on auto-scrubbers, burnishers, carpet extractors, wet vacuums, and backpack vacuums. Add the parts of the job people forget, such as replacing lamps and filters, clearing snow at entrances, setting up rooms for events, and reporting plumbing or door faults before a tenant calls them in. A custodian who can lock a building, set an alarm, and log the closing checks is trusted with far more than cleaning, so keep that on the page.

Use standard headings, single-column formatting, no images or text boxes, and export as PDF or Word. Keep one job per block with the building descriptor, location and dates on their own line, and avoid tables or two-column layouts that reorder your history when software reads the file. Write square footage and room counts as plain digits with their unit, spell equipment out rather than abbreviating it, and list training as plain text instead of inside a badge graphic. Check that the exported file opens as selectable text rather than a flat image before you send it.

Yes. Start from an empty resume in the recommended design, enter your own buildings, routes, dates and figures, and export to PDF or Word for free. Nothing from the fictional sample on this page is copied into your document, so the history stays entirely yours. AI suggestions help you turn a plain duty into a bullet that carries the size of the building and the work it took, and each suggestion can be accepted, edited or ignored line by line. You can switch design or page size later without rewriting a single line of your work history.

Name the product categories and the dilution system you used, say that you worked to the safety data sheet for each one, and add hazard communication or bloodborne pathogen training with the year you completed it. Never list a chemical you have not actually handled. For building size, give what you can support: square footage, floor count, classroom or office count, restroom count, or the share of the site that was on your route. A range is fine when you only know the approximate figure, and it tells a facilities manager far more than a line saying you kept the building clean.

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