Job Title: Groundskeeper/General Maintenance
Department: Building and Grounds
Status: Full time
Summary:
To maintain the grounds throughout the Portage Township School District.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintains a healthy and safe environment of all exterior areas. Including sidewalks, parking lots, grass and shrub area, and athletic fields.
- Maintains all areas of the grounds in a condition that is conducive to their intended use, including mowing, trimming and spreading mulch.
- Mow grass, prune trees and shrubs as needed.
- Perform preparation of athletic fields for competition.
- Perform routine inspection of ground equipment prior to each use, and other duties as assigned.
- Perform Athletic field and ground maintenance, including field grooming, practice field painting/chalking.
- Operate or drive a variety of specialized equipment utilized including gators, tractors, mowers, power and hand tools, trimmers and edgers.
- Apply fertilizer, weed and vegetation control as directed in accordance with all applicable safety rules.
- Follows other directive from the Director of Building and Grounds.
- Remove snow and ice from walkways and parking lots as needed.
- Be a team player.
Minimum Qualifications:
- High School diploma or equivalent required.
- 1-3 years of experience in operating heavy lawn care equipment.
- Mechanically inclined, ability to move heavy equipment
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
- Holds a valid driver’s license and has reliable transportation to/from work.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential function of the job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands, push and pull, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl and climb, talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb and balance. The employee must regularly lift and or move items weighing up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move items weighing up to 100 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to focus.
Operates lawn care equipment (zero radius mowers, bath wing tractor, push mowers), string trimmers, edgers, spreads mulch, pick up leaves, branches, twigs and debris.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential function of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in outside weather conditions and is occasionally exposed to wet or dry conditions, fumes or airborne particles, noise and vibration.
Disclaimer:
Responsibilities and tasks outlined in this document are not exhaustive and may change as determined by the needs of the District.
The employee shall remain free of any alcohol or non prescribed controlled substance in the workplace throughout his/her employment in the Corporation.
The employee is expected to adhere to and agree to adhere to all PTS Core Values, as well as PTS District policies and guidelines. |