S07 Golf Course Grounds Worker

Cornell University • Ithaca, MI

1d • $27 • Onsite

About The Position

Student and Campus Life (SCL) inspires transformation in all Cornell students on their journey of individual, academic and personal evolution. Our division is comprised of leading student affairs experts who support our campus on pressing student life matters including public service, health, wellbeing, connection and belonging, residential living, food services, sports, recreation, career services, and student activities and organizations including sorority and fraternity life. We provide support and services to roughly 25,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students on multiple campuses in the U.S. and abroad. As a part of the SCL Office of the Vice President's unit, the SCL Facilities team supports the student campus experience, by ensuring safe, clean, and operational spaces for students to live, eat, recreate, connect, and engage with each other. With this mission in mind, the team is focused on helping our customers and end-users navigate critical decisions regarding the use and maintenance of their space. They do this through analyzing risks and associated costs, exploring additional services that add value, considering safety and security factors, and ensuring business continuity. Members of this group are passionate about helping customers, think critically about how small decisions can have large impacts, and have a knack for integrating people and physical places. This team is literally the “foundation” upon which the student experience here at Cornell is built. The Golf Course Grounds Worker will operate a wide variety of golf maintenance and/or landscape construction equipment to support golf course maintenance activities for Cornell’s Robert Trent Jones Golf Course as well as other Cornell Athletic Facilities as needed. This role will perform manual labor for general property maintenance tasks, including tasks such as turf/shrub/tree maintenance, litter control, and other varies duties ensuring prompt reporting of unsafe conditions or damage to playing surfaces, landscape, equipment, or facilities. This position is part of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union. The current rate of pay is listed in the collective bargaining agreement here: https://hr.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/2023-04/uaw.pdf and starts at $27.13/hour. No relocation assistance is provided for this position. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. While position responsibilities vary, every member of our community is expected to foster a culture of belonging and a healthy work environment by communicating across differences; being cooperative, collaborative, open, and welcoming; showing respect, compassion, and empathy; engaging and supporting others regardless of background or perspective; speaking up when others are being excluded or treated inappropriately; and supporting work/life integration of oneself and others. Success Factors: Support and promote a customer-service driven culture and possess a commitment to teamwork. Excellent time management skills to best support multiple competing priorities. Effective interpersonal and customer service skills to clearly communicate both verbally and in writing with a variety of customers and stakeholders, and be poised to serve as a good steward of the university. Willingness to learn and adapt to growing athletic department needs and expectations, strong work ethic and the ability to carry out tasks and responsibilities with little direct supervision. Motivated to learn and be proactive taking the initiative to address unusual and time-sensitive challenges.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent with at least 2 years of experience with golf course maintenance.
• Must possess a valid New York State driver's license with no major driving violations and be able to obtain & maintain Cornell’s driving certification.
• Experience or familiarity with turf grass pest identification and associated preventative and/or curative techniques.
• Experience operating a variety of power equipment (mowers, trimmers, tractors and others).
• Experience working directly with people from various socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Must be able to lift 50 lbs. occasionally and up to 100 lbs.
• Must be able to reach over your head, and perform various lifting, pulling and pushing operations as well as stand for long periods of time, occasional squatting and bending.
• Must be able to negotiate stairs, ladders and perform rigorous physical work for sustained periods.
• Must be able to work in all weather conditions and extremes temperatures for extended periods.
• Must be free of debilitating dust, pollen or bee allergies, or have the ability to manage such allergy.
• Flexibility and willingness to work overtime is required.

Nice To Haves

• Additional education and experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• operate a wide variety of golf maintenance and/or landscape construction equipment to support golf course maintenance activities for Cornell’s Robert Trent Jones Golf Course as well as other Cornell Athletic Facilities as needed
• perform manual labor for general property maintenance tasks, including tasks such as turf/shrub/tree maintenance, litter control, and other varies duties ensuring prompt reporting of unsafe conditions or damage to playing surfaces, landscape, equipment, or facilities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees