Skilled Grounds Maintenance Specialist
5 days ago
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.
- 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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