GROUNDS/LANDSCAPER III CREW LEADER

Orange County Public Schools; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Orange County Public Schools in Orlando, FL seeks a skilled landscapes technician to lead grounds crews and perform mowing, shrubbery and tree maintenance, and related facilities tasks.

You will operate district vehicles, maintain equipment, and ensure safe, clean, and efficient grounds across school properties. A high school diploma or GED with 3+ years of landscaping experience is required.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED; plus three years of progressively skilled landscaping experience with leadership responsibilities.
• Ability to fulfill physical and dexterity requirements of grounds, mowing, and tree trimming work.
• Equivalent education, training, and experience may substitute for formal education.

Responsibilities

• Responds to internal and external customers in a timely, courteous and empathetic manner representing OCPS.
• Leads work crews in landscape projects and tasks for school district properties.
• Performs grounds maintenance: cutting, mowing, weed-eating, edging, blowing, planting foliage and mulching.
• Operates OCPS Grounds’ vehicles with a trailer.
• Operates various tools and equipment: saws, sprayers, air compressors, mowers, blowers, hedge trimmers.
• Maintains materials and supplies usage records for district inventory.
• Addresses safety concerns and ensures clean, orderly, environmentally safe conditions.

Skills

Leadership

Grounds maintenance

Equipment operation

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Lawn equipment (mowers, trimmers)

OCPS vehicles operation

Job description

Salary Schedule

Under general supervision, the purpose of the position is to perform skilled mowing and landscape work related to the care and upkeep of school district property. Employees in this classification are capable of leading work crews in the functional area of assignment, and exercise considerable latitude in methods and priority of tasks. Work areas include, but are not necessarily limited to, grounds maintenance, , and tree trimming. Work objectives are to maintain cleanliness, order, and environmentally safe conditions of school district property. Essential functions as outlined herein are performed according to assigned area. Performs related work as directed.

Examples Of Essential Functions

• Responds to internal and external customers in a timely, accurate, courteous and empathetic manner representing OCPS in a positive light.
• Functions independently, or leads work crews engaged in school district property landscape projects and tasks.
• Performs grounds maintenance activities, i.e., cutting, mowing, weed-eating, edging, blowing, planting foliage and mulching
• Performs shrubbery and tree maintenance activities, i.e., pruning limbs, shaping hedges, cutting branches.
• Maintains materials and supplies usage records for district inventory and property accounting purposes.
• Operates OCPS Grounds’ vehicles with a trailer.
• Operates various electric, gas and manually powered tools and equipment, i.e., saws, sprayers, air compressors, mowers, blowers, weed-eaters, hedge trimmers.
• Assists with various facilities and trades maintenance and repair tasks within scope of abilities.
• Ensures cleanliness, order, and environmentally safe conditions of district property; addresses safety concerns in a time efficient manner; reports real or potential maintenance/repair needs.
• Ensures proper cleaning and maintenance of equipment, tools, and materials utilized; ensures adherence to principles and practices of safe use and operation of equipment, tools, and materials.
• Performs clean up and work site restoration activities, i.e., disposing waste and debris.
• Responds to and takes appropriate actions in the event of emergency or critical incidents to resolve, confine or otherwise prevent potentially injurious or hazardous conditions.
• Responsible for keeping up to date on current technology, as job appropriate, being used by OCPS. With the support of the district, attends training to ensure skill level in various technologies is at the level required to perform in current position.
• Responsible for timely and accurate information they maintain as part of their job responsibilities.

Marginal Functions

• Performs related duties as directed.

Minimum Training And Experience

High school diploma or GED; supplemented by three (3) years progressively skilled experience in landscaping work, demonstrating leadership qualities and ability to fulfill the physical and dexterity requirements of the work, as applicable to the assigned area (i.e., grounds landscaping, mowing, and, tree trimming); or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

This position requires operation of District fleet vehicles in performance of duties. Employees must maintain a valid Florida Driver’s license and meet the requirements of the District’s Safe Driving Plan. This is a Non-OTETA/CDL position.

Effective August 24, 2009, all new hires to this position must successfully complete the Industrial Physical Capability Screening (IPCS); previous incumbents holding this position without a break in service are not required to have this screening.

PERFORMANCE APTITUDES

• Data Utilization: Requires the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize, and/or analyze data and/or information. Includes exercising discretion in determining data classification, and in referencing such analysis to established standards for the purpose of recognizing actual or probable interactive effects and relationships.
• Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide guidance, assistance, and/or interpretation to others on how to apply procedures and standards to specific situations.
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate standard hand-held tools, and electric, gas and manually powered equipment and machinery OCPS vehicles and computers.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and advisory data and information.
• Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
• Functional Reasoning: Requires ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form. Involves semi-routine standardized work with some latitude for independent judgment concerning choices of action.
• Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving evaluation of information against measurable or verifiable criteria.

ADA COMPLIANCE

• Physical Ability: Tasks involve the ability to exert moderate physical effort in work, with greater emphasis on climbing and balancing, but typically also involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, and the lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of moderately heavy objects and materials (5 - 40 pounds); may occasionally involve heavier objects and materials (up to 50 pounds).
• Sensory Requirements: Some tasks may require the ability to perceive and discriminate depths. Most tasks require visual perception and discrimination.
• Environmental Factors: Tasks are regularly performed with exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as weather conditions of hot/cold temperatures and rain, dust, noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, strong odors and toxic/poisonous agents.
• The Orange County School District will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to allow them to perform the essential functions of the job when such individuals request an accommodation.

09/09/2024