Groundskeeper- 22853

**Job Posting Title**:
Groundskeeper

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**Hiring Department**:
Facilities Services

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**Position Open To**:
All Applicants

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**Weekly Scheduled Hours**:
40

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**FLSA Status**:
To Be Determined at Offer

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**Earliest Start Date**:
Ongoing

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**Position Duration**:
Expected to Continue

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**Location**:
AUSTIN, TX

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**Job Details**:
**General Notes**

Your skills will make a difference.

You’ll be working for a university that is internationally recognized for our academic programs and research. Your work will make a difference in the lives of FAS staff, thereby enhancing the student experience. If you’re the type of person that wants to know your work has meaning and impact, you’ll like working in our department and for UT Austin. UT Austin provides an outstanding benefits package including but not limited to:

- Competitive health benefits (employee premiums covered at 100%, family premiums at 50%)
- Voluntary Vision, Dental, Life, and Disability insurance options
- Generous paid vacation, sick time, and holidays
- Teachers Retirement System of Texas, a defined benefit retirement plan, with 7.75% employer matching funds
- Additional Voluntary Retirement Programs: Tax Sheltered Annuity 403(b) and a Deferred Compensation program 457(b)
- Flexible spending account options for medical and childcare expenses
- Robust free training access through LinkedIn Learning plus professional conference opportunities
- Tuition assistance
- Expansive employee discount program including athletic tickets
- Free access to UT Austin's libraries and museums with staff ID card
- Free rides on all UT Shuttle and Austin CapMetro buses with staff ID card

Hours may vary based on water restrictions, seasonal changes, campus events, and emergencies. May require overtime with minimum notice. Hiring decision contingent upon applicant clearing a background check and receiving an acceptable driver's rating. Applications will be reviewed online.

**Purpose**
Provides basic grounds maintenance services to keep up the health and appearance of the landscape at The University of Texas at Austin.

**Responsibilities**
- Maintains landscape to university standards (to include all turf, shrubs, and hardscapes) and reports trouble conditions on campus that might be a safety hazard to the university community. Driving University owned vehicles to job sites will be required for this and most other functions.
- Safely operates landscaping equipment to include push mowers, trimmers, edgers, blowers and other hand tools used in landscape work.
- Picks up litter, empties trash receptacles, and keeps University property neat and orderly.
- Readily accepts and follows written and oral instructions, maintains work schedule set by the supervisor, and complete routine paperwork to include weekly electronic time reports, daily labor reports, vehicle usage log, and other UT related electronic forms.
- Wears appropriate personal protective equipment, PPE, for the task, follow safety rules, maintain safe working conditions.
- Cleans, maintains, operates university vehicle, and maintain acceptable driver rating as established in Policy UTS157 Section 2.5.4.
- Adheres to and performs related functions as assigned, and works overtime in support of special events, emergencies and planned after hours work. Ability to pull, push, and lift up to 50 lbs.
- Other related duties as assigned.

**Required Qualifications**
- Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate._

**Preferred Qualifications**

One year experience in landscape maintenance work in a university, institutional, or commercial setting to include operating power mowers, cultivators, edgers, small sweepers, and other equipment used in gardening work including the required qualifications.

**Driving Required**

**Salary Range**

$18.00 per hour.

**Working Conditions**

**Environmental Demands**
- Uniforms and/or personal protection equipment (furnished)
- May work in all weather conditions
- May work in extreme temperatures
- May work around chemical fumes
- May work around biohazards
- May work around chemicals
- May work around electrical and mechanical hazards

**Physical Tasks**
- Use of manual dexterity
- Climbing of stairs
- Climbing of ladders
- Lifting and moving

**Additional Working Conditions**
- May twist, grasp, and bend.
- Works effectively as a team member and independently with open and clear communication.
- Promotes and exercises good safety habits.
- Maintain acceptable driver rating as established in Policy: UTS157 Section 2.5.4.

**Work Shift**
- Monday - Friday, 6:00 am - 2:30 pm.
- Hours may vary based on water restrictions, seasonal changes, campus events, and emergencies.
- May require overtime with minimum notice.

**Required Materials**
- Resume/CV
- 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
**Employment Eligibility**:

**Retirement