Grounds & Nursery Specialist II — Full-Time with Benefits

Community Colleges of Spokane; Spokane (WA); On-site; USD 37,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

Spokane Falls Community College is seeking a Grounds & Nursery Specialist 2 to maintain campus grounds, landscapes, and nurseries, and to install, maintain, operate, and adjust irrigation components for campus sites operated by Spokane Colleges.

Under supervision, you will perform skilled gardening tasks, apply chemicals as required, operate equipment, and follow safety and district regulations to ensure healthy landscapes and safe outdoor spaces for students and staff.

Qualifications

• Ability to work independently and as a team.
• Read SDS (Safety Data Sheets).
• Knowledge of grounds chemicals/fertilizers.
• One or more years of experience or training involving grounds maintenance, gardening, plant care, cultivation and landscape installation.
• Able to work alternate shifts.
• Experience using large grounds related equipment, e.g. backhoe, snow removal equipment, dump trucks, etc.
• Trained and knowledgeable in forklift operation.

Responsibilities

• Apply pesticides and herbicides to flowers and shrubs and pre-emergent to grass.
• Seed, mow, sweep, fertilize, top dress, edge, and maintain lawns.
• Plant, transplant, trim, and water plants, flowers, trees, and shrubs.
• Install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain sprinkler heads, adjust spray patterns, and install sprinkler lines.
• Prepare soil for planting, seed, sod, plants, trees, and shrubs.
• Clean, service, adjust, maintain, and make repairs to tools and equipment.
• Use a variety of manual tools and equipment e.g., hand rakes, hand edgers, loppers, pruners, shovels, wheelbarrow, weeding fork, hoe, pesticide sprayers, & seed spreaders.
• Operate a variety of powered and motorized equipment such as weed trimmers, trenchers, top dresser, chain saws, backpack blowers, handheld gas blowers, tillers, light tractors, front-end-loaders, small tractors, utility vehicles, skid steer, lawn mowers sweepers, aerators, rollers, sod cutters, and powered snow blowers.
• Remove debris, leaves, brush, and pruning clippings from sidewalks, grounds, roads, ramps and stairs.
• Empty campus waste and recycling receptacles.
• Utilize a variety of techniques to enrich and build soil structure.
• Remove snow and ice from sidewalks, stairs, ramps and roads and sand/de-ice as required.
• Model professional decorum and mutual respect in all personal interactions.
• Complies with district policy, procedures and directives, state and federal regulations, orders and statute and collective bargaining agreements.
• Support and advance the Spokane Colleges strategic plan, and perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Ability to work independently

Ability to work as a team

Read SDS (Safety Data Sheets)

Tools

Forklift operation

Grounds equipment operation

Job description

Spokane Falls Community College is seeking a Grounds & Nursery Specialist 2 to maintain campus grounds, landscapes, and nurseries, and to install, maintain, operate, and adjust irrigation components for campus sites operated by Spokane Colleges.

Under supervision, you will perform skilled gardening tasks, apply chemicals as required, operate equipment, and follow safety and district regulations to ensure healthy landscapes and safe outdoor spaces for students and staff.