Grounds & Nursery I

State of Colorado•Denver, CO

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Grounds and Nursery I position is part of the Facilities Management Grounds team, which maintains and improves campus outdoor spaces including turf, landscaping, trees, walkways, and seasonal plantings. This role involves tasks such as the application of pesticides, supporting snow removal, events, and other service needs that keep campus safe and welcoming year-round. The work is very hands-on and outdoors in all weather, with seasonal variety—like landscaping and irrigation in warmer months, leaf cleanup in the fall, snow/ice control in the winter, and event support/moving year-round. The team is close-knit, collaborative, and supportive, often pitching in to cover routes or large projects.

Requirements

One year of grounds care and maintenance, greenhouse, or plant nursery general labor work experience.
Ability to use tools, mowers, trimmers, blowers, and other grounds/landscape equipment safely and effectively.
Experience with landscape installation and maintenance.
Ability to maintain a safe, clean work environment.
Ability to lift, bend, kneel and work outdoors year-round, including snow removal, snow plowing, and heavy labor in hot or cold conditions.
Reliable, shows up ready to work, and takes pride in getting the job done right the first time.
Able to complete daily duties with minimal guidance.
Ability to adjust to changing weather, priorities, or unexpected challenges.
Excellent communication skills.
Exemplary customer service spirit to meet the needs of team members, students, staff, and customers of Mines.
Strong attention to detail.
Ability to prioritize tasks.
Must respond to supervisor’s call requests to participate in CSM campus Snow Management Plan.
Background check
Motor Vehicle Record check
Pre-employment physical
Pre-Employment drug screen

Nice To Haves

A Positive, Team-Oriented Attitude
Self-motivated with a can-do and will-do attitude
Takes pride in keeping campus safe and beautiful
Enjoys learning new skills
Making a visible impact to the Mines campus

Responsibilities

Provide technical and skilled labor for the maintenance of campus grounds, buildings, athletic fields, and student residences and grounds equipment.
Accomplish tasks such as trash and ash urn servicing, planting, mowing, edging, trimming, pruning and clean up of existing campus turf, landscape areas and athletic fields based on services identified in an annual calendar and/or results from monthly property inspections.
Effectively monitor plant and turf grass vigor and identify insect or disease problems.
Clean grounds areas of trash, debris, leaves, weeds, etc.
Empty trash containers in common areas.
Clean walks, steps, parking areas, drains, curbs and gutters.
Repair, replace or install campus related signage.
Participate in maintaining the grounds, which may include minor hardscape repair, athletic field maintenance, irrigation maintenance, planting of trees, shrubs, flowers, turf, mowing, edging, and weeding and trash collection.
Assist Grounds Supervisor as needed with oversight of contractor installation of landscape, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, walk ways, parking lots, drainage systems, planters, fields.
As an essential employee during snow/ice storms, must respond to supervisor’s call requests to participate in CSM campus Snow Management Plan which involves snow removal from streets, parking lots, walk ways and steps.
Meet specified requirements set forth by the supervisor, division manager and City of Golden for the removal of snow on streets and walks throughout the campus boundaries based on the CSM Snow Management Plan.
Complete open, set-up, tear-down and secure rooms as scheduled and diagrammed around campus in a timely manner, which may include tables, chairs, audio equipment, fencing, recycle & trash containers, bleachers, score boards, stages and dance floors, etc.
Moves office, conference room, or classroom furniture such as desks, chairs, cabinets, easels, bookcases, etc. within rooms and/or across campus and between buildings.
Moves furniture or other office/classroom items in support of the set-up and take down activities for campus meetings, classroom activities, public events, or conferences.
May load and unload supplies/shipments received using a forklift or manual lifting.
Picks up trash and may perform light cleaning duties of the rooms, offices or conference areas.
Other related duties as needed may include moving furniture to surplus, hauling away trash, removing old computers to storage, etc.