Skilled Grounds Maintenance Specialist

5 days ago


Amherst, Massachusetts, United States UMass Amherst Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Grounds Maintenance Specialist to join our team at UMass Amherst. As a key member of our facilities team, you will be responsible for ensuring the upkeep and maintenance of our beautiful campus grounds.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide Excellent Customer Service: Practice and promote excellent customer service in the workplace, meeting routinely with customers and customer service representatives to determine their needs.
  • Operate Complex Equipment: Operates multi-purpose vehicles with large, complex attachments, including edgers, sod cutters, riding mowers, tractor-mounted flails/brush hogs, hydraulic tree spades, tractor-mounted spreaders/sprayers, and high-speed chipper grinders.
  • Perform Grounds Maintenance Tasks: Trims, prunes, cuts, and/or plants flowers, bushes, and trees as part of grounds keeping activities. Seeds, waters, weeds, and/or fertilizes lawns, flowerbeds, shrubs, etc.
  • Identify and Troubleshoot Problems: Identifies repair and replacement needs by observing and evaluating equipment, sprinkler systems, parking areas, fields, and various grounds and landscape areas.
  • Assist with Special Events: Supports campus events (Commencement, Founder's Day, Move-In) and approved student activities as needed.
  • Perform Other Duties: Performs other duties as assigned, including emptying rubbish barrels, sweeping walks, picking up litter, cleaning ditches, drains, and catch basins on grounds or roadways, shoveling snow, and raking leaves.
Requirements
  • Massachusetts Class 2B Hoisting License
  • Minimum Class D Driver's License
  • 1 Year of Work Experience in Landscape Maintenance
  • Ability to Functionally Supervise Other Employees
  • Ability to Work Effectively in the Identification, Planting, Care, Maintenance, and Trimming of Plant Materials
  • Ability to Perform Complex Landscape Operations
  • Working Knowledge of Types and Uses of Common Hand Tools
  • Ability to Perform Manual Labor of a Semi-Skilled Nature


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