The Seasonal Groundskeeper position provides lawn care for areas of main campus, including care of grass areas, gardens, shrubbery, and trees.
Requirements
- Mows grass using hand-propelled or riding lawn mowers.
- Trims shrubbery and trees under supervision.
- Removes litter from campus grounds, roadways, and parking lots.
- Plants, transplants, prunes, and fertilizes flowers, shrubs, and trees.
- Assists in maintaining roadways sidewalks, and parking lots.
- Removes leaves from gutters, and rakes leaves as necessary.
- Applies pesticides as directed.
- Removes snow using power equipment, such as plows, snow blowers, or rotating brushes, or manually with shovels.
- Spreads salt using automatic spreaders or manually.
- Provides routine maintenance on lawn care equipment, i.e. check oil levels, sharpen blades, change spark plugs, and mix gas and oil as required.
Benefits