Grounds Maintenance Worker

Title: Grounds Maintenance Worker

Division: Finance and Administration

Department: Facility Operations and Planning

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Salary Range: Grade 7: $16.02/hour

EEO Job Group: 9 E8

Position Summary

The University of Southern Indiana is accepting applications for Grounds Maintenance Worker.

Perform preventive maintenance and general upkeep of landscaped and turfed areas; roads and walkways; parking lots; lakes, streams, and watersheds; playing fields and recreational facilities; and minor construction related thereto.

Duties/Responsibilities 

• Performs semi skilled landscaping, grounds maintenance, and roads maintenance tasks in a multi building University complex. This is semi skilled labor calling for a working knowledge of the care of trees, turf, and plants together with some knowledge of maintenance of roads, outdoor facilities, and playing fields using grounds related machinery. This is semi skilled labor calling for operation of trucks, tractors, and powered machines as well as hand tools. All work is directed and inspected by Grounds Maintenance Workers III and Supervisors.
  
  
• Uses vehicles, tractors, machinery, and hand tools to do seeding, sodding, aerating, weeding, fertilizing, mowing, and trimming turfed and planted areas.
  
  
• Assists a certified grounds maintenance worker in applying chemicals, pesticides, and herbicides to trees, shrubs and turf.
  
  
• Operates machines and uses hand tools to maintain and develop outdoor facilities to include 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.
  
  
• Uses hand tools to maintain and develop outdoor facilities to include playing fields, shelter houses, picnic areas, campgrounds, recreation facilities, fishing areas, nature trails, and fences.
  
  
• Maintains roads, walkways, parking lots, and loading docks to include minor paving, patching, grading, ditching, and snow removal.
  
  
• Collects and removes trash and debris.
  
  
• Cleans and maintains vehicles and equipment.
  
  
• Makes outdoor set ups for special events.
  
  
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Knowledge and Skills

High school diploma/GED.

Valid driver’s license.

Preferred Knowledge and Skills

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.

Regular Work Hours/Travel Requirements

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.

Position requires 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.

This position is considered essential. When the University closes due to inclement weather or another emergency, this position is required to report to work to perform snow and/or ice removal or other clean-up work following severe weather or other emergencies.

Travel within University and occasional travel to offsite University locations using a University vehicle is required.

 

About USI         

The University of Southern Indiana is a public higher education institution located on a beautiful 1,400-acre campus in Evansville, IN. We offer employees exceptional 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

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