Groundskeeper

Geisinger • Danville, PA

24d • Onsite

About The Position

The Groundskeeper maintains Geisinger Medical Center’s grounds and helps keep the campus safe, clean, attractive, and welcoming for patients, visitors, and employees. The role operates grounds-maintenance and other specialized equipment, performs seasonal snow and ice removal, maintains landscaped areas, and provides support to other trade areas as needed. It also transports specified materials and supplies to outlying buildings. Work is typically performed in an office environment, although duties include outdoor grounds work and equipment operation. The scheduled hours are 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., 40 hours per week.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent (GED).
• Minimum of 2 years of related work experience.
• Communication skills.
• Computer literacy.
• Office politics and confidentiality skills.

Responsibilities

• Remove snow and maintain safe parking lots and sidewalks by operating articulated front-end loaders, tractors, dump trucks, pickups, and other equipment to plow, salt, and apply cinders.
• Operate snow-melting equipment as needed to ensure adequate parking.
• Operate bucket trucks, forklifts, backhoes, and front-end loaders to support other trade areas as needed.
• Operate a large street sweeper to clean parking structures and parking lots and reduce potential damage from winter deicing materials.
• Perform preventive maintenance, cleaning, and repairs on snowplows, loaders, road sweepers, tractors, mowers, and other grounds-maintenance equipment.
• Prepare soil and plant flowers, lawns, and shrubs.
• Apply fertilizer and insect control as needed; inspect plantings and treat for insects.
• Mow and trim lawns, prune shrubs, and weed and mulch shrub beds.
• Clean road drains.
• Transport infectious waste, clear-bag waste, recycling materials, and clean linens to outlying buildings.
• Provide manpower support to other trade areas as needed.
• Maintain a safe campus for patients, visitors, and employees and comply with job-specific obligations and organizational policies and procedures.

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits for full-time and part-time positions from day one.
• Vision benefits.
• Dental benefits.
• Domestic partner benefits.
• Collaborative, cooperative, and collegial work atmosphere.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED