Job Description

Title: Groundskeeper

Assignment: 12-month; Tuesday - Saturday; 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM; Occasional Overtime Required

Location: Northfield Campus

Occupational Group: PPS Custodial

Supervisor: Grounds Manager; Northfield Facilities Manager

Starting Rate: $21.24/hour plus $2,080 Annual Grounds Stipend

Qualifications:

1. Ability to safely operate job-related vehicles and equipment
2. Mechanical ability to maintain equipment
3. Ability to work early morning hours and weekends to shovel and plow snow, and spread salt
4. Valid Illinois driver's license
5. Ability to regularly lift and handle items weighing at least 50 pounds, occasionally more
6. Ability to effectively read written instructions, read manuals, signs and product labels
7. This work demands physical effort such as walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, raking, shoveling, and lifting

Responsibilities:

• Maintains grounds of high school property by:
• • cutting lawns, using riding or walk-behind power mowers;
  • aerating, fertilizing, slit seeding and topdressing turf using proper equipment;
  • picking up litter;
  • emptying trash; and
  • trimming bushes, pruning trees, and edging sidewalks, using a variety of hand and power tools
• Maintain sports fields by:
• • painting field markings;
  • keeping fields edged and free of weeds;
  • maintaining infield dirt, home plates and pitching mounds; and
  • preparing fields for games including some work on Saturday mornings
• Maintains water management through automatic irrigation system or manual hose and nozzle
• Snow Removal
• Performs other duties as directed by supervisor

FLSA: Non-exempt


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