Grounds Maintenance Attendant - Landscape/Horticulture

Department

Facilities Operations - Administrative Office

Job Family

Service - Union

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Job Description

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:00am - 3:30pm (40 hours per week)

Position Summary

Reporting to the Grounds Manager, the Grounds Maintenance Attendant is responsible for maintenance of the College landscaping, grounds and athletic fields, snow and ice removal and when assigned, to provide a safe and attractive environment.  This position is considered essential.

This position is part of the SEIU Union.

Responsibilities

• Maintain campus lawns

• Remove snow/ice from walks, drive and parking lots.

• Maintain athletic fields, natural and synthetic, using appropriate lawn care procedures including striping of playing surfaces, dragging of infields, mowing, irrigating, fertilizing.

• Control weed growth manually or by application of pesticides, if licensed.

• Maintain campus trees and shrubs.

• Maintain planting beds, including annual flower rotations and displays.

• Maintaining and operating landscape irrigation systems under supervision.

• Perform parking lot and road repairs using hot and cold patches.

• Utilize grounds maintenance equipment and tools including but not limited to: riding mowers, rototillers, lawn sweepers or skid steers, aerators, snow plow, tractors and salt spreaders.

• Collect trash from all exterior trash receptacles and perform litter collection.

• Wild life control as needed, if licensed.

• Respond to after hour calls for snow/ice removal.

• Other seasonal tasks connected to the maintenance of Vassar grounds, excluding all those job duties otherwise performed by other job classifications covered by the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Required knowledge, skills and abilities

• Three (3) years of experience in the maintenance and care of grounds.

• Must possess knowledge and technical skills required for the maintenance of landscaped surfaces.

• Knowledge of, or demonstrated ability to learn, irrigation systems programming and operations.

• Must possess and maintain a valid Driver's License.

• Ability to communicate effectively in English, including understanding, speaking, reading and writing.

• Willingness to work overtime as available. Overtime is assigned according to seniority guidelines;

• Ability to lift 50 lbs.

• Ability to stand for extended periods of time, lift, and shovel.

Preferred knowledge, skills and abilities

• Five (5) years in the maintenance and care of grounds.

• Knowledge of maintenance of athletic fields.

• New York State Pesticide Applicators License Category 3A.

• New York State Nuisance Wildlife Control Operator license.

Pay Rate

$25.56 per hour