Grounds Crew

Position: 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
• Clearances required upon employment