Grounds Maintenance Worker

About the role

The University of Southern Indiana is accepting applications for Grounds Maintenance Worker. This position is non-exempt and falls under the FLSA status.

Responsibilities

• Performs semi-skilled landscaping, grounds maintenance, and roads maintenance tasks in a multi-building University complex.
• Operates vehicles, tractors, machinery, and hand tools to do seeding, sodding, aerating, weeding, fertilizing, mowing, and trimming turfed and planted areas.
• Aids a certified grounds maintenance worker in applying chemicals, pesticides, and herbicides to trees, shrubs, and turf.
• Maintains outdoor facilities such as playing fields, shelter houses, fences, picnic areas, campgrounds, recreation facilities, fishing areas, nature trails, and fences.
• Plants and prunes trees and shrubs.
• Cleans and maintains vehicles and equipment.
• Maintains roads, walkways, parking lots, and loading docks to include minor paving, patching, grading, ditching, and snow removal.
• Collects and removes trash and debris.
• Makes outdoor set-ups for special events.

Requirements

• High school diploma/GED.
• Valid driver’s license.
• One year of experience in grounds keeping including methods used in planting, cultivation, pruning, and caring for plants, shrubs, flowers, and turf.
• Operation of ground maintenance equipment including motorized equipment and hand tools and knowledge of routine equipment and methods.
• Agricultural background and high mechanical aptitude.
• Experience with tractors and trucks.
• Knowledge of microcomputers, word processing, spreadsheet, and electronic mail software.

Qualifications

• Standard work hours are Monday through Friday, 6:00 am to 2:00 pm.
• Occasional irregular or prolonged hours may be necessary to complete assigned responsibilities.
• This position is considered essential. Extended hours at any time of the day or night when necessary to complete the responsibilities to remove snow and ice or to perform clean-up work after severe weather or other emergencies.
• Travel within University and occasional travel to offsite University locations using a University vehicle is required.

Benefits

Benefits for this position include: Affordable medical, dental, vision, life and short term and long-term disability insurance plans, Retirement plan where the University makes the total contribution equivalent to 7% of annual salary, Full tuition fee waiver for employees/75% for spouses and dependent children, Accrue up to 10 paid vacation days per fiscal year – accrual increases after 4, 7, and 11 years of service. For more information about the benefits that USI offers, please visit www.usi.edu/hr/benefits.