Grounds Maintenance Technician

Full-time, non-exempt maintenance support role focused on horticulture assistance and campus beautification.

Responsibilities

• Operate power equipment including lawn mowers, leaf blowers, weed-eaters, and trimmers.
• Trim, edge, or mulch with pine bark or pine needles around shrubs, flower beds, walks, and walls.
• Prune shrubs and trees to improve shape and growth.
• Water beds, shrubs, and trees during dry periods.
• Treat lawns, shrubs, beds, and trees using insecticides, herbicides, and fertilizers (if trained/certified).
• Leaf removal through collection, raking, or use of blowers.
• Remove snow, ice, and debris from campus.
• Perform small engine repair and maintenance.
• Inventory materials and supplies for the grounds department.
• Assist with special events requiring grounds preparation and parking assistance.
• Maintain records of chemical licenses and inventory of chemicals used by the grounds staff.
• Assist maintenance with building projects as needed.
• Receive and unload trucks as needed.
• Assist with carpentry, masonry, and painting projects.
• Set up and tear down for special events.
• Assist with maintenance work orders.
• Wash vehicles as needed.
• Assist with carpentry during remodeling and repair of physical facilities, structures, and signage.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED; prefer certificate or A.A.S in a related field.
• Knowledge of gardening techniques and safety procedures.
• Ability to read and write.
• Experience operating commercial-grade grounds equipment.
• High level of physical effort required, including lifting, carrying, walking, bending, and kneeling (lifting up to 50 lbs).
• Valid NC driver’s license with a safe driving history.
• Must meet requirements to operate commercial-grade grounds equipment.
• Preferred: Forklift certification and NC Pesticide Operators license.

Schedule

• Primarily Monday–Friday, starting at 6:00 a.m.
• Occasional evenings as needed.

Working Conditions

• Primarily outdoor environment with frequent standing, walking, bending, and lifting.
• Exposure to varying weather conditions.

Equipment Operation

• Riding mowers, walk-behind mowers, lawn tractor yard vacuum, leaf blower vacuum, weed eaters, brush cutters, gas sidewalk edger, gas mulcher and chipper, walk-behind gas parking lot vacuum, power chain saws, gas shrub trimmer, high-pressure water sprayers.
• Various sized tractors with attachments (including boom, bush hog, scrape blade, spreader), backhoe, front-end loader, forklift, shovels, yard rakes, pitchforks, hand pruning tools.
• Dump truck, snow plow, salt spreader, 14' tandem axle low boy trailer, 8' single axle low boy trailer, 500-gallon water tank and pump, backpack sprayer, walk-behind spreader.
• Jackhammer, Wacker Packer, hand tools, bucket concrete and asphalt saw.