Substitute Grounds Keeper On Call No Benefits

School Grounds Maintenance

The incumbent will perform school grounds maintenance and repair duties, duties related to the maintenance of athletic fields and custodial grounds duties.

The incumbent receives general supervision from the Principal at the site of assignment, and technical and functional supervision from the Facilities and Transportation Manager.

Examples of duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Performs grounds maintenance and repair duties related to school grounds and athletic fields.
• Cultivates, waters, and trims lawns, shrubs, hedges and trees.
• Uses hand tools to work soil and to remove weeds, undergrowth, and debris from school grounds and landscaped areas.
• Plants, transplants, and fertilizes a variety of plants and shrubs; sprays shrubs, trees and lawns.
• Operates a variety of grounds equipment, including hand and power mowers, tractors, edgers and gang mowers.
• May drive a pickup truck in the performance of work.
• Assists in the installation and repair of sprinkler systems.
• Lines athletic fields.
• May perform cleaning and custodial work as required.
• May assist maintenance personnel on a broad variety of projects.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Minimum qualifications include knowledge of tools, materials, equipment and standard practices of grounds keeping work; common trees, ornamental shrubs, lawn pests and diseases and approved methods of controlling and eradicating them; and safe work practices.

Ability to use and operate a variety of hand and power tools and equipment; perform heavy physical labor; understand and carry out oral and written instructions; and establish and maintain cooperative relationships with those contacted in the course of work.

Experience, education, and training that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be one year of experience in grounds maintenance, gardening or related work, and equivalent to the completion of twelfth grade.

Special requirements include possession of, or ability to obtain, an appropriate, valid California driver's license.

Physical requirements include the ability to exert 50 pounds of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects; and the ability to stoop, climb, stand for long periods of time and perform physical labor, physical mobility and stamina to participate in activities which may be strenuous.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable a person with a disability to perform the essential functions of the job.