Grounds Maintenance Worker

Texas Southmost College • Austin, TX

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About The Position

Performs grounds maintenance and landscaping duties on campus properties. The role includes maintaining lawns, trees, shrubs, ornamentals, drainage areas, and campus grounds; operating and maintaining grounds equipment and tools; and completing related indoor labor, deliveries, work orders, and other assigned duties. The employee monitors the work environment for health hazards and reports them to a supervisor, follows college policies and standards, and supports institutional goals and assessment processes. Work hours may include evenings, holidays, or weekends depending on deadlines and special events.

Responsibilities

• Cut lawns and trim and edge around walks, flower beds, and walls.
• Prune shrubs and trees to shape and improve growth or remove damaged leaves, branches, or twigs.
• Apply fertilizer, herbicides, and insecticides to lawns, shrubs, and trees; rake and load leaves.
• Clean grounds, remove litter, and remove weeds from campus locations.
• Plant grass, flowers, trees, and shrubs, and water lawns and shrubs.
• Perform weed-eating duties.
• Clean drainage ditches and culverts.
• Sharpen tools such as weed cutters, edging tools, and shears.
• Perform custodial and other indoor laborer duties as needed.
• Deliver specialized items as needed.
• Complete assigned work orders.
• Care for and maintain ornamentals; identify and eradicate pest problems.
• Operate, clean, repair, and service grounds-maintenance equipment, including mowers, spreaders, tractors and trailers, front-end loaders, fork trucks, blowers, trimmers, and hand and power tools.
• Install sidewalks and walkways as needed.
• Monitor surroundings for health hazards and report them to a supervisor.
• Attend the workplace regularly, report punctually, and follow a work schedule to meet worksite demands.
• Complete duties in compliance with college standards, policies, and guidelines.
• Use interpersonal skills and sound judgment when coordinating duties with coworkers, supervisors, faculty, staff, students, and customers.
• Complete required training and professional development sessions sponsored by Texas Southmost College.
• Support the values and institutional goals in the College’s Strategic Plan.
• Participate in developing outcomes, monitoring assessment, and developing improvement plans based on assessment results.
• Participate in systematic review and evaluation under the College’s institutional effectiveness model.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed