Field and Grounds Mechanic 'B'

Entry level position in the Journeyman series focused on field and grounds maintenance work. Employees maintain large multi-sport athletic fields and care for lawns, trees, shrubs, and flowers. Work involves assignments of increasing scope and complexity as familiarity with the environment grows.

Responsibilities

• Maintains full athletic facilities including the track, adjacent areas, and locker rooms.
• Cleans athletic field areas before and after athletic events.
• Deposits clay on athletic fields and marks boundaries.
• Repairs and paints spectator seating areas and athletic equipment such as hurdles and goal posts.
• Replaces tennis nets as needed.
• Cleans and maintains athletic facilities including locker rooms, showers, and lavatories.
• Provides expert care of lawns and turf: seeds, plants, fertilizes, sprays, weeds, fills holes, and removes hazardous growths.
• Cuts, rakes, edges grass, and prunes trees.
• Disposes of refuse appropriately.
• Uses chain saws, power mowers, edgers, sprayers, and other power gardening tools and equipment.
• Drives dump trucks and other vehicles; operates tractors with attachments.
• Shovels snow and salts walkways and other assigned areas.
• Performs preventive maintenance and minor repairs on mechanical equipment including lawn mowers, tractors, and snow blowers.
• Checks oil and fluid levels as well as blades.
• May oversee the work of trainees.
• Adheres to established safety codes and procedures.
• Performs incidental work as required.

Requirements

• Education equivalent to the completion of the twelfth school grade.
• Three years of full-time, paid experience learning the fields and grounds mechanic trade as an apprentice.
• Possession of a Class B Commercial Driver’s License valid in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania prior to and during appointment.

Skills

• Considerable knowledge of methods and procedures for the care and maintenance of athletic fields, tracks, tennis courts, and related facilities.
• Considerable knowledge of methods and procedures to prepare baseball, football, soccer fields, tennis courts, and tracks for competitive events.
• Considerable knowledge of methods, materials, tools, and equipment used in the care of lawns, turf, trees, shrubs, hedges, grass, and flowers.
• Knowledge of occupational hazards and safety precautions of the trade.
• Skill in the use and care of tools and equipment of the trade.
• Ability to drive and operate tractors, dump trucks, and other vehicles and equipment.
• Ability to perform a variety of manual tasks.
• Ability to follow oral and written instructions accurately.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates and superiors.