Landscaping and Grounds Coordinator II

Tennessee Tech•Cookeville, TN

3d•Onsite

About The Position

This position involves performing a variety of landscaping and grounds maintenance tasks on campus. Responsibilities include mowing, trimming, planting, and maintaining trees, plants, flower beds, and shrubbery. The role also requires operating commercial equipment such as tractors and front-end loaders for moving materials like dirt, sand, and mulch. Maintaining campus cleanliness, including trash removal and general aesthetics, is also a key duty. Additionally, the position assists with turf construction, fertilization, chemical applications, and over-seeding. Snow and ice removal, potentially outside of normal working hours, is also part of the job.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
Two years of related experience.
Six months of experience with landscape maintenance and herbicides.

Nice To Haves

Landscape construction experience including operation of landscape equipment.
Previous agronomic experience.

Responsibilities

Mows and trims with various mowers and power tools.
Assists in planting and maintaining trees, plants, flower beds, shrubbery and other landscaping elements on campus.
Utilizes tractors, front end loaders, utility vehicles and other commercial equipment to move dirt, sand, landscape rock and mulch for campus landscaping needs.
Maintains cleanliness of campus including picking up trash and maintaining campus esthetics.
Assists with all forms of turf construction activities including laying sod, fertilization, chemical applications, over-seeding.
Assists in the removal of Snow and Ice including events that may arise after normal working hours and campus closures.
Cuts grass and trims with various mowers and power tools when requested.
Utilizes knowledge of horticulture techniques to assist in maintaining trees, plants, flower beds, shrubbery and other landscaping elements in their assigned portion of campus.
Specifically responsible for application of herbicides for landscape beds.
Picks up and transports trash and provides leaf collection.
Utilizes tractors, front end loaders, dump trucks and other commercial equipment to move dirt, sand, gravel and mulch for campus landscaping needs.
Uses hand tools such as shovels, rakes, wheel barrows, watering hose, etc. to maintain grounds.
Provides snow removal services to the entire campus.