Groundskeeper

**Position Open Notice**
**Groundskeeper**

**Part-time**
Thatcher, Arizona

**College and Area Information**:
Eastern Arizona College’s District Offices are located in Thatcher, Arizona, a beautiful rural area with easy access to arid
as well as mountainous recreation. The College is located approximately 125 miles northeast of Tucson and 165 miles
southeast of Phoenix. EAC is a comprehensive community college offering five associate degrees across nearly 50
programs of study. Eastern Arizona College is the oldest member of the Arizona Community College system and is fully
accredited by The Higher Learning Commission.

**Position Summary and Organizational Relationship**:
The Groundskeeper position reports to the Groundskeeper Supervisor and will perform a variety of tasks to ensure that a
particular area of the campus grounds is continually maintained to a high standard, to ensure the comfort and safety of
students, staff, and visitors. This is an important role that requires good organizational skills and attention to detail. This is
a part-time position generally consisting of no more than 19.5 hours per week as scheduled by the supervisor.

**Required Qualifications**:
Required qualifications to effectively perform job. An equivalent combination of education, training, and experience will be
considered.***
- High school diploma or GED equivalent
- Some groundskeeping or related experience is preferred.
- Must maintain a valid, current driver's license and able to safely operate pick-up trucks or other motorized
- vehicles.- Must be at least 18 years of age or older.

**Essential Functions**:

- Perform a range of tasks to maintain and develop the grounds of the college campus.
- Operate and maintain a variety of groundskeeping equipment, including irrigation systems.
- Safely perform all groundskeeper duties as required and maintain a safe environment for others.
- Cut grass and weeds, trim hedges, edge walkways and driveways.
- Water lawns, irrigate fields and maintain sprinkler systems.
- Prune trees and shrubs.
- Plant and maintain fields and landscaped areas.
- Properly dispose of dirt, trash, and other refuse.
- Dig ditches or trenches and other similar types of duties.
- Install, repair, and maintain sprinkler and drip irrigation systems.
- Annual lawn thatching and over seeding of winter rye grass.
- Provide supervision of inmate workers as necessary.
- Provide assistance and information to students and colleagues as required.
- Performs other duties as assigned.

**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**:
May be representative, but not all-inclusive, of those knowledge, skills, and abilities commonly associated with the job.
- Ability to use and maintain commonly used groundskeeping equipment.
- Ability to effectively organize and prioritize work as well as concentrate on multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Organized thinker with exceptional attention to detail.
- Good communication skills.
- Ability to work well both independently and as part of a team.

**Physical Abilities**:
Activities commonly associated with the performance of the functions of this job. The physical demands described below
are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- Required to use close vision and be able to focus.
- Regularly required to talk and hear; frequently required to sit, stand and bend at the knee and waist, and walk.
- Must be able to have repetitive wrist, hand and/or finger movement.
- Must have finger dexterity and hand-eye coordination.
- Occasionally required to reach and grasp items, and to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and climb.
- Occasionally required to lift or move items of over 50 pounds.
- Regular attendance is a necessary and essential function.

**Working Environment**:
Environmental or atmospheric conditions commonly associated with the performance of the functions of this job.
- Generally, works in outdoor conditions, and may occasionally be exposed to extreme temperatures and inclement

weather conditions.
- Exposed to loud noise levels of lawnmowing and other equipment.
- Exposed to dust, oils, chemicals, and fumes, and may occasionally be required to wear a respirator.
- Occasionally exposed to hazardous driving conditions, vibration, moving mechanical parts, and the risk of electric
- shock.- May occasionally work in a confined space or in a high, dangerous place.

May occasionally be exposed to bodily fluids and potentially hazardous chemicals or agents.

**Application Information**:
below:
Eastern Arizona College
Human Resources - SS 209
615 N. Stadium Avenue
Thatcher, AZ 85552-0769

**the applicant. Applicants must be prepared to interview at their own expense.**

**Closing Date**:
is identified.

**Compensation and Position Availability**:
The initial position compensation is** $15.73 per hour**. The anticipa