Grounds and Nursery Specialist 3 - Temporary

Olympic College•Bremerton Campus, WA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Olympic College is seeking a Temporary Grounds Nursery Specialist 3. This position performs multiple duties related to the care and maintenance of the Olympic College grounds. The Grounds and Nursery Specialist 3 requires skilled gardening tasks and knowledge of cultivation and maintenance of trees, lawns, and ornamental plants. Responsibilities include testing soils, pruning, transplanting plant materials, and applying chemicals. Propagates and cares for trees, shrubs, and forage plants. This position maintains the grounds on the Bremerton, Poulsbo, and Shelton campuses.

Requirements

Six (6) months of full-time equivalent (FTE) experience in a related field of grounds maintenance, gardening, plant care, or landscaping.
Valid WA State Driver's License
Ability to lift 50lbs.
Ability to work in inclement weather using mowers, edgers, blowers, pressure washers, and other equipment.

Nice To Haves

Experience with hardscape maintenance, plant care, and irrigation install and repair

Responsibilities

Clearing walkways, stairs, ramps, lots, and drains using a blower, rake, or broom to remove debris.
Mowing, edging, and line-trimming to keep grass at the desired height using a push mower, rider, line trimmers, and edgers on turf.
Keeping grounds free of trash by using pickers and hands to pick up trash and empty outdoor trash cans, putting them in dumpsters or a trash compactor.
Picking up recyclables, emptying the bags into recycling bins, and putting the plastic bags into the trash bin.
Watering plants by keeping desirable plants watered using irrigation and hand watering with hoses.
Pruning/Weeding by removing undesirable plants for the health and appeal of desired ones.
Cleaning outdoor fixtures using graffiti remover to clean graffiti using a hand brush, towel, or by painting over it; cleaning signs, tables, benches, trash cans, walkways, and lots by hand or using pressure washers.
Removing dead rodents by hand using PPE, double bagging, and placing in compactor.
Setting traps as needed.
Placing ant bait stations and fly traps as needed.
Cone off areas with bees, hang yellow jacket traps, using PPE, spray and remove nests as needed.
Using a hose to wash aphids off.
Cleaning out under shrubs to control root weevils and other pests, removing infected leaves, fertilizing, and spraying with Neem if necessary.
Removing mushrooms and fungus by hand at the playground as needed.
Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

Medical/vision
dental
long-term disability
life insurance
accidental dismemberment
Flexible Spending Arrangement
Dependent Care Assistance Program
Wellness Programs
Department of Retirement Systems Plan 2 or Plan 3
Deferred Compensation Program (DRS) retirement savings plan
TIAA supplemental retirement savings plan
Aflac
11 paid holidays
leave – vacation/sick/personal holiday/personal leave
auto/home insurance
space available tuition waiver
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
fitness center
reduced rate and priority consideration for on-site childcare based on space availability