Lead Groundsperson (Five Positions - 6:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.)

About the role

Performs manual and semi-skilled work and serves as a working leader for grounds employees engaged in the repair and general maintenance of grounds, athletic grounds, and equipment at school facilities to ensure a safe environment for students and staff.

Responsibilities

• Prepares athletic grounds for use, performs maintenance and repairs on artificial turf, maintains irrigation systems, aerate, seed, fertilizer, and lime.
• Assists in scheduling and assigning work, determines priorities, reviews work, and inspects finished work.
• Performs playground equipment safety inspections by identifying hazards, repairing, and modifying equipment to meet American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards and Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) guidelines, and maintaining inventory and equipment repair records.
• Applies herbicides and ensures herbicide application is in accordance with applicable laws.
• Maintains, issues, orders, and audits supplies and tools.
• Erects, repairs, and maintains chain link and wood fences.
• Clears areas and swales by felling trees and removing debris and removing poisonous plants.
• Participates in snow removal.
• Performs repair to driveways, parking lots, storm drains, and walkways including asphalt, brick, and concrete.
• Performs other related duties as assigned within the same classification or lower.

  Requirements

  • Education: High School Diploma or Equivalency Certificate required.
  • Experience: Five (5) years progressive experience in construction, landscape, or grounds maintenance required; or five (5) years athletic grounds experience with knowledge of American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards and Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) guidelines preferred.
  • Licenses and Certifications: Successful completion of Artificial Turf (inspection, maintenance and repair) Competency test issued by AACPS preferred; Successful completion of Mobile Elevating Work Platforms Training- specific classifications for Grounds are Type 1, Group B (crawler), Type 3, Group B (boom), and A92.2 (vehicle mounted) issued by AACPS preferred; Successful completion of Playground Safety Competency test issued by AACPS preferred; Upon hire, Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Class A (Maryland) issued by Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MDOT MVA) required; or upon hire, Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Class A issued by Maryland or State of Residence Department of Transportation (DOT) required; Proof of a good driving record required.

  Qualifications

  • To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
  • Knowledge: Knowledge of grounds maintenance methods and procedures and of associated hand tools and equipment such as mowers, tractors, and heavy equipment.
  • Skills: Ability to learn the content of and skill in reading, interpreting, and applying work orders, diagrams, sketches, blueprints, drawings and specifications, and manufacturers manuals.
  • Abilities: Ability to learn the content of and skill in reading, interpreting, and applying work orders, diagrams, sketches, blueprints, drawings and specifications, and manufacturers manuals.

  Benefits

  Not specified.

  Pay

  Not specified.

  Schedule

  Not specified.