Laborer - Grounds Maintenance

Service Source • Saint Louis, MO

41d

About The Position

This position is responsible for ensuring campus grounds are kept clean, neat, and meeting contractual requirements, while providing effective customer service and achieving customer satisfaction by delivering services in a professional, courteous, and timely manner for our National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) West Base Operations Support Contract.

Requirements

• A high school diploma or state certified equivalent required.
• Must gain and maintain NGA site access.
• Must successfully pass HSPD-12 background check.
• Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

Nice To Haves

• Previous grounds experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Mow, edge, prune, and trim plants. Maintain plant beds, weed control, fence line vegetation control, and police grounds.
• Provide grounds maintenance and quality inspections for the contract on a year-round seasonal program.
• Cut all grass around trees, shrubs, planting beds, building, parking lots, signs, and other obstacles within mowing areas.
• Operate, inspect, test, maintain, and repair stand-on mowers, string trimmers, weed-eaters, edger, snow and leaf blowers, handheld hedge trimmers, spreaders, and other similar seasonal maintenance equipment.
• Assist in performing seasonal grounds maintenance by providing quality service in accordance with the contract specifications.
• Maintain turf by watering, fertilizing, weeding, mowing, trimming, replanting, and performing other operations as required to establish healthy, viable turf.
• Transport large debris, leaves, trash, etc. from origination to disposal site.
• Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges, using shears, pruners, or chain saws.
• Gather and remove litter.
• Maintain or repair tools, equipment, or structures, such as buildings, fences, or benches, using hand or power tools. Assist in moving lawn equipment from client campus to storage or maintenance facility.
• Perform snow and ice removal from parking lots and walkways by using shovels, spreaders, and deicers such as salt and ice melt.
• Provide proper upkeep of sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, planters, or other grounds features.
• Perform other related responsibilities as assigned.

Benefits

• Health coverage for you and your family through Medical, Dental, and Vision plans.
• Financial protection with 100% company paid Disability, Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurance.
• A 403(b)-Retirement plan in which the company matches dollar for dollar on a generous percentage matching up to 3% of your contribution.
• Tax advantages through Flexible Spending and Health Savings accounts that allow you to pay for specific healthcare and dependent care expenses with pre-tax dollars.
• To help you manage your work and life needs, we offer an Employee Assistance Program, Wellness Program, and Tuition Assistance.
• A generous paid time-off program in which the benefits increase based on your tenure with the company.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees