Position Type: Maintenance/Custodial/Grounds CrewDate Posted: 10/24/2024Location: District WidePosition: Grounds Crew Location: District-Wide Hourly Rate: $17.25 per hour Benefits: Individual Benefits Provided Position Summary: Grounds Crew members are responsible for maintaining school grounds. This includes lawn maintenance, planting, snow removal, and other related tasks. Essential Functions:
- Adjusts and repairs grounds equipment such as lawn mowers, sprinklers, shears, etc using small hand tools
- Repairs parking lots by filling in cracks/holes with gravel or asphalt
- Paints traffic lines, curbs, and parking lines
- Maintains district landscaping. This includes cultivating, planting, watering, fertilizing, weeding, edging, pruning, triming, etc.
- Maintains district lawns. This includes mowing, weed-eating, spraying, fertilizing, etc.
- Installs and maintains district signs and posts
- Leaf removal activities such as raking, collecting and disposing of leaves. Clears storm drains and traps
- Snow removal from sidewalks, parking lots, and entrances using shovels, snow blowers, plow vehicles, and small front loading tractors.
- Spreads salt and other anti skid materials to prevent slipping
- Covers trees, shrubs, plant beds with fabric to protect landscape from ice and salt damage
- Safely operates yard equipment such as push mowers, tillers, weed eaters, leaf blowers and edgers.
- Safely operates large equipment such as riding mowers, dump trucks, back hoes, front loaders, chippers, skil loaders, and vaccuums.
- Performs routine maintenance and repairs on equipment such as fueling, lubricating, and cleaning
- Applies herbicide and pesticides in a safe manner as a licensed applicator or a registered technician with required training and testing
- Loads, moves and transfers large school items when necessary
- pressure washers outdoor areas to remove stains, graffiti, gum, etc
- Assists with unloading trucks at Central Receiving with a forklift with additional help is needed
- Maintains playground fall surface areas to keep playgrounds safe and clean
- Assists the assigned custodian with cleaning in the Annex when needed
- sets traffic horses to ensure the orderly flow of traffic
- Assists with setup for large events
- Assists with maintenance duties when needed