Airfield Tractor Operator - Grounds Maintenance

TRDI; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 23,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Vision

Dental

Health & Welfare

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Job summary

TRDI in San Antonio, TX is hiring a Tractor Operator to attach and operate heavy farm and grounds equipment, including batwing mowers and backhoes. You will adjust, lubricate, and perform minor repairs to tractors and attachments, ensuring safe operation and compliance with site rules.

The role is full-time with an hourly rate of $20.53 and may require weekends, evenings, and holidays. Benefits include Medical, Vision, Dental, Health & Welfare, PTO and Paid Holidays.

Qualifications

• High school education or GED.
• 1 year relevant work experience operating industrial grade tractors and batwing shredders within a commercial grounds keeping environment.
• Ability to organize effectively, delegate responsibility, solve problems quickly and communicate clearly.
• Ability to manage time effectively and handle both internal and external conflicts.

Responsibilities

• Maintains grounds of industrial, commercial, or public property such as buildings, roadsides, airfields, and athletic fields.
• Minor equipment repairs, performing one or more of the following tasks: cut grass using batwing mowers (more than 2000 lbs.), trim hedges and edges around walks, flowerbeds, and wells.
• Fastens attachments such as graders, plows, rollers, mowers (over 2000 lbs.), backhoes, seeders, and disc harrows to tractor, adjusts equipment for proper operation, lubricates and makes minor repairs to tractor and attachments such as tightening bolts, and replacing washers, cotter pins, and screws.
• Operate industrial grade tractors with batwing shredder attachment within the controlled movement area of an airfield.
• Uses hedge trimmers, clippers and edging tools, prunes shrubs and trees to shape and improve growth, using shears and other hand tools, sprays lawn, shrubs, and trees with fertilizer or insecticide.
• Job duties also include the following: planting grass, flowers, trees and shrubs, watering lawn and shrubs during dry periods, using hose or activating sprinkler system, picks up and burns/carts away leaves, paper, or other litter.
• String trimmer and backpack blower.
• Pass and maintain any required security clearance requirement and comply with Drug Free Workplace policy.
• Adheres to Operations Security (OPSEC) standard operations procedures.
• Adheres to Property Control Plan for management of Government Furnished Property (GFP).
• Adheres to the safety and health program that complies with EM 385-1-1 and applicable OSHA, DOD, Armed Forces Branch(s), Federal, state, and local safety, environmental and health requirements.
• Maintain a site-specific Accident Prevention Plan (APP) in accordance with Appendix A, EM 385-1-1.

Skills

Oral & written communication

Team collaboration

Confidentiality

Attention to detail

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

TRDI in San Antonio, TX is hiring a Tractor Operator to attach and operate heavy farm and grounds equipment, including batwing mowers and backhoes. You will adjust, lubricate, and perform minor repairs to tractors and attachments, ensuring safe operation and compliance with site rules.

The role is full-time with an hourly rate of $20.53 and may require weekends, evenings, and holidays. Benefits include Medical, Vision, Dental, Health & Welfare, PTO and Paid Holidays.