Groundskeeper

JobID: 3041

**Position Type**:
Maintenance, Operations,Grounds**Date Posted**:
4/22/2024**Location**:
District Office East**Closing Date**:
05/06/2024**Summary**:
Groundskeeper is under the direct supervision of the Supervisor of Grounds and general supervision of Director of Maintenance, Operations & Grounds to perform routine grounds maintenance and gardening work at a school site; to do other work as assigned. Performs routine grounds and landscape maintenance of public access grounds, gardens, and assists with upkeep of sport/play fields, planting and horticulture.
**Essential Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Mows, edges, aerates, and re-seeds lawns. Trims shrubs, hedges, and trees. Hoes weeds and rakes lawns. Operates and cleans power riding lawn mowers, power blowers, common trucks, and other motorized equipment requiring similar skill.
- Assists with planting and cultivating of trees, grass, flowers, and shrubs. Spades, applies nutrients, and otherwise prepares grounds for planting.
- Removes weeds, blows, rakes, and removes trash and debris from walkways, culverts, stairways, roadways, planters, and parking. Maintains in-ground drains and culverts.
- Assists other Landscape and Grounds Specialists in excavating and contouring district grounds, and in constructing, maintaining, and repairing play structures.
- Cleans and assists with repairs of fields/play areas and facilities following events. Performs general grounds clean-up including picking up paper and trash on grounds areas. Performs maintenance and cleaning of structures such as storage sheds, restrooms, and seating areas.
- Assists, by serving as a helper and laborer in the construction, maintenance, and repair of irrigation systems. Digs trenches, unloads and relocates materials, and cleans tools and equipment.
- May assist structural maintenance specialists with projects on an intermittent basis.
- Performs other duties as assigned that support the overall objective of the position.

**Qualifications**:
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- Knowledge and Skills:
- Abilities:
**Education and Experience**:

- High School diploma or GED.
- One (1) year of experience in gardening, nursery work or grounds maintenance, and experience in operation of light duty grounds equipment.

**Licenses and Certificates**:

- Requires a valid Driver’s License.

**Additional Requirement**:

- Must pass an approved pre-placement medical assessment.

**Application Document Requirements**:

- Resume
- High School diploma or GED.
- DMV Driving Record report

**Salary and Terms of Service**:
Salary range (30) $19.57 - $23.99 per hour, eight (8) steps, eight (8) hours per day and five (5) days per week (M-F), 12 months per year. Holidays, sick leave and vacation benefits. Prepaid family dental, medical, and vision insurance, prepaid life insurance plan for employee only.

**Required Application Procedure**:
**Selection Procedure**:

- JobID: 3041

**Position Type**:
Maintenance, Operations,Grounds**Date Posted**:
4/22/2024**Location**:
District Office East**Closing Date**:
05/06/2024**Summary**:
Groundskeeper is under the direct supervision of the Supervisor of Grounds and general supervision of Director of Maintenance, Operations & Grounds to perform routine grounds maintenance and gardening work at a school site; to do other work as assigned. Performs routine grounds and landscape maintenance of public access grounds, gardens, and assists with upkeep of sport/play fields, planting and horticulture.
**Essential Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Mows, edges, aerates, and re-seeds lawns. Trims shrubs, hedges, and trees. Hoes weeds and rakes lawns. Operates and cleans power riding lawn mowers, power blowers, common trucks, and other motorized equipment requiring similar skill.
- Assists with planting and cultivating of trees, grass, flowers, and shrubs. Spades, applies nutrients, and otherwise prepares grounds for planting.
- Removes weeds, blows, rakes, and removes trash and debris from walkways, culverts, stairways, roadways, planters, and parking. Maintains in-ground drains and culverts.
- Assists other Landscape and Grounds Specialists in excavating and contouring district grounds, and in constructing, maintaining, and repairing play structures.
- Cleans and assists with repairs of fields/play areas and facilities following events. Performs general grounds clean-up including picking up paper and trash on grounds areas. Performs maintenance and cleaning of structures such as storage sheds, restrooms, and seating areas.
- Assists, by serving as a helper and laborer in the construction, maintenance, and repair of irrigation systems. Digs trenches, unloads and relocates materials, and cleans tools and equipment.
- May assist structural maintenance specialists with projects on an intermittent basis.
- Performs other duties as assigned that support the overall objective of the position.

**Qualifications**:
***
- Knowledge and Skills:
- Abilities:
**Education and Experience**:

- High School diploma