Grounds Caretaker

San Bernardino Community College District•San Bernardino, CA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Performs a variety of grounds maintenance and repair work in the care and maintenance of District grounds including landscaped areas and athletic fields. Receives general direction from appropriate supervisor; checks with supervisor regarding non-routine assignments. May provide technical and functional direction to assigned student workers.

Requirements

Equivalent to completion of high school.
Six (6) months of general grounds maintenance experience in at least one of the following: irrigation systems, gold course greens, pesticide application, or hardscape repair.
Possession of a valid driver’s license.
Possession of, or ability to obtain, within eight (8) months of employment, at District’s expense, a California Department of Pesticide Regulation, Qualified Applicator Certificate (QAC) for the use and application of chemical pesticides within or adjacent to District properties.
Submit to and successfully pass DOJ live scan/fingerprinting. Cost of live-scan services to be borne by candidate.
Sealed official transcript(s) in envelope from institution or electronic copies emailed directly from institution (for positions with higher education requirement)
Tuberculosis ( TB ) risk assessment
Other pre-employment requirements may be required depending on the position (i.e. certifications or licenses; see job posting qualifications section for details).
Successful completion of all pre-employment requirements is mandatory to be eligible for employment.

Nice To Haves

Commercial irrigation controller experience.
Commercial landscape equipment experience.
Asphalt repair experience.
Experience in workorder systems.

Responsibilities

Performs routine ground maintenance duties on District ground including landscaped areas and athletic fields; mows, edges, weeds and maintains lawns, fields, flowerbeds and other landscaped areas; trims and prunes shrubs, hedges, and trees; applies repellents and pesticides.
Maintains lawns, grounds, and other cultivated areas; prepares areas for planting by clearing, grading, fertilizing, and watering ground; prepares areas for flowerbeds by roto-tiling, weed oiling, and laying plastic; plant flowers, shrubs, trees; and lays rock.
Picks up leaves, paper and trash in grounds areas; cleans and removes weeds from areas such as sidewalks, parking lots, and roads; dumps trash cans; removes rodents and/or reptiles from campus area as necessary.
Operates a variety of grounds maintenance equipment and tools, including gang movers, roto-tillers, tractors, blowers, edger’s, saws, and other similar equipment; performs equipment safety inspections.
Maintains and performs minor maintenance on hand and basic power mowers, sweepers, saws, and other similar grounds tools; makes minor repairs such as sharpening blades.
May assist in repairing potholes, mixing concrete, marking athletic fields or parking lots, moving permanent exterior furniture, digging trenches, sign or fence postholes.
Operates and assists in the installation, maintenance, and repair of the District’s irrigation system as assigned.
Cleans storm drainage systems as assigned.
Assumes assigned responsibility for the use of application of pesticides.
Maintains special cultivated areas on District properties such as, but not limited to golf course greens, athletic fields, specimen areas, green belts, planters and turf areas.
Utilizes proper safety precautions related to all work performed.
Uses computers in the processing of work requests, campus/district communication, and material and/or information searches.
Perform other duties related to the primary job duties.