Grounds Worker
About The Position
The Grounds Worker maintains the campus exterior landscape, including tennis courts, fields, and garden areas. The role performs routine landscape maintenance, applies chemicals to control weeds, undesirable plants, and insects, and supports healthy growth of lawns, trees, shrubs, and flowers. It also plants new and replacement landscape materials, maintains landscaping equipment and irrigation systems, removes trash, and clears snow and ice from campus walkways. The Grounds Worker prepares campus areas for special student events, completes beautification projects as requested, operates a University vehicle during daily operations, and performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Must operate a University vehicle in day-to-day operations.
Responsibilities
- Maintain exterior campus landscaping, including tennis courts, fields, and garden areas.
- Perform routine landscape maintenance, including mowing, pruning, and trimming trees, hedges, and bushes.
- Apply chemical substances to control weeds, undesirable plants, and insects and to promote healthy growth of lawns, trees, shrubs, and flowers.
- Plant new and replacement landscape materials to enhance the exterior environment.
- Perform routine repair and maintenance of equipment.
- Install, maintain, and replace automatic and manual watering and irrigation systems.
- Remove trash from buildings and grounds.
- Sweep and remove ice and snow from campus walkways and apply ice melt when indicated.
- Prepare campus areas for special student events.
- Complete beautification projects in accordance with indicated requests.
- Operate a University vehicle in day-to-day operations.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
