Laborer - Grounds Maintenance

Job Summary

This position is responsible for ensuring campus grounds are kept clean, neat, and meeting contractual requirements, while providing effective customer service and achieving customer satisfaction by delivering services in a professional, courteous, and timely manner for our National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) West Base Operations Support Contract.

Primary Duties

• Mow, edge, prune, and trim plants.
• Maintain plant beds, weed control, fence line vegetation control, and police grounds.
• Maintain turf by watering, fertilizing, weeding, mowing, trimming, replanting, and performing other operations as required to establish healthy, viable turf.
• Transport large debris, leaves, trash, etc. from origination to disposal site.
• Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges, using shears, pruners, or chain saws.
• Gather and remove litter.
• Maintain or repair tools, equipment, or structures, such as buildings, fences, or benches, using hand or power tools.
• Assist in moving lawn equipment from client campus to storage or maintenance facility.
• Perform snow and ice removal from parking lots and walkways by using shovels, spreaders, and deicers such as salt and ice melt.
• Provide proper upkeep of sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, planters, or other grounds features.

Additional Responsibilities

• Aid in performing seasonal grounds maintenance by providing quality service in accordance with the contract specifications.

Qualifications

• A high school diploma or state certified equivalent required.
• Must gain and maintain NGA site access.
• Must successfully pass HSPD-12 background check.
• Previous grounds experience preferred.