Job Description
Maintainer II Grounds Crew (2 positions) The basic purpose of this work is to perform various manual tasks required for the routine maintenance of the grounds of an educational campus.
Essential Functions: - Performs routine manual tasks involved in the maintenance, repair or beautification of campus grounds or roads, such as cutting grass, weeds or brush; cleaning culverts, gutters, catch-basins, drains or ditches; loading and unloading vehicles; moving and setting up furniture; spreading sand, gravel, loam or asphalt; digging ditches or post-holes; setting or pulling posts; repairing guardrails or fences; patching concrete or asphalt surfaces; maintaining, erecting or repairing signs; cleaning or marking roadways for parking lots; erecting or dismantling snow fences; painting fences, posts, guardrails or building exteriors.
- Plants, seeds, transplants, removes, prunes, trims, waters, sprays or fertilizes trees, shrubbery, grass, plants or flowers; participates in the propagation, growth and care of flowers, plant and shrubs; assists in planning and executing horticultural designs for grounds beautification.
- Sweeps sidewalks, rakes and collects leaves, collects and hauls debris or rubbish, shovels snow, sands roadways or walkways; performs other manual tasks involved with snow removal, control and disposal.
- Cleans, washes, refuels, oils or greases trucks or automobiles; performs other manual labor tasks in connection with the maintenance and operation of a garage or equipment depot.
Additional Responsibilities: - Inspects equipment and tools for wear and tear and prepare work orders for repair of equipment.
- Makes general repairs of a simple nature, including minor repairs to grounds keeping equipment.
- Operates wheel tractors, electric trimmers, buffers or other similar mechanical or power-driven equipment; drives a truck.
- Maintains necessary records, such as inventory records, maintenance records and records of hours worked.
- Provides on-the-job training to employees.
- Focuses on the Commonwealth's Equity Agenda by applying related best practices throughout all job functions.
Job Requirements:
Required: Applicants must have at least (A) one year of full-time, or equivalent part-time, experience in building custodial or institution housekeeping work; or in landscaping, groundskeeping, park maintenance or tree maintenance work.
Qualifications Required at Hire in Series: - Ability to follow oral and written instruction
- Ability to stand or walk for prolonged periods of time
- Ability to climb and work on ladders
- Ability to lift and carry heavy objects
- Willingness to work outdoors in all types of weather
- Knowledge of the methods followed in groundskeeping work
- Knowledge of the types and uses of materials, tools and equipment use in groundskeeping
- Knowledge of the terminology and standard abbreviations used in connection with groundskeeping
- Knowledge of the proper care and maintenance of equipment used in groundskeeping
- Skill in the use of hand-held power tools, such as drills, chain saws, and hedge trimmers
- Skill in the use of a variety of motorized equipment such as snow blowers, lawn mowers, rototillers, etc.
- Knowledge of the techniques followed in weed control
- Knowledge of the types and used of pesticides
- Knowledge of the procedures followed in pruning and cutting trees
- Valid Driver's License
Preferred: - One year of full-time, or equivalent part-time, experience in landscaping, groundskeeping, park maintenance or tree maintenance work.
- Hoisting License
- Pesticide License
- Snow plow experience
Additional Information:
Position Status: AFSCME union position, full-time, state funded with benefits. This position is deemed Essential.
Hours: 40 hours a week, 7:00am-3:30pm, Monday - Friday
Salary: $1,644.77 bi-weekly, ($42,764.02 annually), Grade 11 Step 1
Classification Specification:
Worksite : This position will be primarily assigned to the Brockton Campus but assignments may include all Massasoit sites.
Deadline to Apply: December 17, 2024
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