Job Description:

SUMMARY:  Responsibilities are to install, alter, repair and maintain district grounds and grounds equipment, including planting, fertilizing, pruning, mowing, and general maintenance to ensure safe and attractive district grounds.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: Depending upon the individual assignment, the Groundskeeper Assistant may perform all or a combination of the following:

·       Maintain district ground, athletic and play fields; weeds, edges, mows, waters, fertilizes and provides a variety of grounds maintenance services

·       Performs a variety of horticultural duties; plants a variety of shrubs, trees, and flowers; prunes and fertilizes; applies a variety of insecticides as needed; performs landscaping installations and improvements

·       Monitors condition of grounds throughout the district; inspects and corrects a variety of conditions

·       Monitors condition of playground equipment for safety; inspects and corrects equipment as necessary

·       Maintains and repairs a variety of grounds keeping equipment including mowers, tractors, trucks, trimmers, and hand equipment

·       Informs supervisor of needed supplies and replacements; places routine orders; drives to secure materials as required

·       Secures area when mowing, spraying or performing other potentially injurious functions to ensure student and staff safety

·       Perform other duties as required

QUALIFICATIONS:

·       Ability to distinguish insecticides and hazardous chemicals

·       Ability to operate a variety of grounds maintenance equipment and tools

·       Knowledge of grounds repairs and maintenance

·       Ability to mow, plant, water, prune and fertilize trees, shrubs, flowing plants and grounds

·       Knowledge of safety procedures

·       Ability to follow verbal or written instructions

·       Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

·       Skill in identifying and correcting equipment problems

·       AZ Driver’s License and evidence of good driving record

·       High School diploma or equivalent

·       Finger Print Clearance Card

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

·       Required to stand, stoop or crouch for prolonged periods

·       Occasionally required to move heavy objects weighing more than fifty (50) pounds

·       Required to operate power equipment such as mowers and tractors

·       Required to take precautions when operating equipment with cutting potential and to avoid exposure to insecticides, and other landscaping chemicals and their fumes

·       Required to wear protective gear such as gloves or masks

·       Exposed to noise from power equipment

·       Grounds maintenance requires working outdoors in inclement weather

·       Required to work from ladders or scaffolds

·       Required to take precautions to avoid injury when felling trees with chainsaws or other power equipment

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The usual and customary methods of performing the job’s functions require the following physical demands:

·       Significant lifting, carrying, pushing and/or puling

·       Frequent climbing and balancing

·       Significant stooping, kneeling, crouching and/or crawling

·       Significant fine-finger dexterity