Groundskeeper

Primary Responsibilities

• Maintain grounds; including lawn areas, planting beds, sidewalks, parking lots, and streets
• Perform seeding, planting, and transplanting of flowers, trees, shrubs and lawns
• Water, weed, and cultivate planting beds; remove spent blooms and trim hedges and shrubs
• Apply chemicals used in grounds keeping (horticulture, turf management, and floriculture)
• Perform grounds cleaning of trash and debris
• Perform Spring and Fall grounds clean-up activities on campus
• Collect trash from buildings and grounds and place in designated trash and recycling dumpsters
• Operate tractors with attachments such as mowers, seeders, sprayers, aerators, snow plows and snow blowers
• Ensure equipment is operational by performing routine/preventative maintenance and clean equipment and machines within reasonable capabilities
• Perform snow and ice removal from parking lots and sidewalks
• Assist in directing the work of student employees as directed by supervisor
• Respond to calls for emergency service including snow removal
• Assist maintenance personnel and campus setups as directed

Qualifications

• A high school diploma and/or GED and 1 year of grounds or related work experience
• Valid drivers' license
• Ability to attain an Iowa Applications Permit for herbicides and pesticides