Groundskeeper

HOPEWEST•Grand Junction, CO

9d•$21 - $23•Hybrid

About The Position

The Groundskeeper is responsible for maintaining and enhancing the organization’s outdoor environments through comprehensive groundskeeping, landscape maintenance, and professional horticultural practices. This role ensures all landscaped and hardscape areas are safe, accessible, and visually welcoming year-round, while also providing specialized Master Gardener expertise in garden planning, plant health, and seasonal landscape stewardship. The position supports campus gardens, collaborates with volunteers, and contributes to a well-maintained environment for patients, families, staff, and visitors.

Requirements

High School Diploma or equivalent required.
Three years in gardening, horticulture, or landscape maintenance required.
Master Gardener certification is required (or ability to obtain within six months).
Valid Colorado driver’s license and adequate automobile insurance.
Strong knowledge of horticulture, landscaping, and plant care.
Ability to identify plant diseases, pests, and nutrient deficiencies.
Working knowledge of irrigation systems and seasonal watering schedules.
Ability to plan, prioritize, and manage seasonal and weather-driven work independently.
Strong attention to safety, detail, and campus appearance.
Effective communication skills when working with staff and volunteers.
Regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use the hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell.
Able to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and push/pull up to 50 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with volunteers or providing task guidance is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Maintaining and enhancing the organization’s outdoor environments.
Comprehensive groundskeeping and landscape maintenance.
Applying professional horticultural practices.
Ensuring all landscaped and hardscape areas are safe, accessible, and visually welcoming year-round.
Providing Master Gardener expertise in garden planning, plant health, and seasonal landscape stewardship.
Supporting campus gardens.
Collaborating with volunteers.
Contributing to a well-maintained environment for patients, families, staff, and visitors.
Snow removal and ice mitigation practices.