Groundskeeper

Crown Point Community School Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Crown Point Community School Corporation seeks a Groundskeeper to perform comprehensive grounds maintenance, ensuring safe and healthy outdoor environments across school properties. The role involves mowing, pruning, irrigation, chemical applications, and routine equipment maintenance.

Candidates should have a high school diploma and 1–3 years of turf management experience, with preferred pesticide licensing and a valid driver’s license.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• 1-3 years' experience in turf management and pesticide, herbicide, and fertilizer application; landscape care and IPM experience preferred.
• Indiana State Chemist certifications and active licensing in Pesticide Applicator Category 3b and 7a preferred.
• 1-3 years' experience operating, maintaining and repairing heavy lawn care equipment and irrigation systems.
• Valid driver's license and reliable transportation.

Responsibilities

• Maintain healthy, safe outdoor environments for areas including sidewalks, parking lots, grass and shrub areas, and athletic fields (where applicable).
• Perform mowing, pruning, trimming, seeding, irrigation, and chemical applications as required.
• Safely operate commercial equipment such as mowers, tractors, spreaders, aerator, sweepers, trimmers, snow gear and more.
• Handle routine maintenance and repairs on equipment; arrange major repairs as needed.
• Maintain irrigation systems with winterization and watering schedules; schedule athletic fields as needed.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Leadership

Organizational skills

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

Tools

Lawn care equipment

Irrigation systems

Job description

• High School diploma or equivalent required.
• 1-3 years' experience in turf management and pesticide, herbicide, and fertilizer application; General plant health and care; Landscaping practices; Integrated Pest Management experience desired.
• Indiana State Chemist certifications and active licensing in Pesticide Applicator Category 3b and 7a preferred.
• 1-3 years' experience in operating, maintaining and repairing heavy lawn care equipment and irrigation systems.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, leadership, and organizational skills
• Holds a valid driver's license and has reliable transportation to/from work.

Primary Job Function:

To perform groundskeeping and maintenances tasks to maintain a clean, safe and healthy environment conducive to the educational process.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Maintains a healthy and safe environment of all assigned exterior areas, including sidewalks, parking lots, grass and shrub areas, and (if stationed at the high school) athletic fields.
• Maintains all areas of the grounds in a condition that is conducive to their intended use, including mowing, pruning, trimming, seeding, irrigation, and chemical applications as required.
• Safely and efficiently operates commercial equipment, including, but not limited to: zero-radius turn mowers, front mower deck tractors, seed and fertilizer spreaders, turf aerator, pull-behind sweepers, string trimmers, snow blowers, chain saws, truck-mounted snow plows and salt spreaders.
• Performs maintenance tasks as required to assure a safe, healthy and efficient environment for the students and staff, including trash and debris pick-up, snow removal, and salt applications.
• Initiates Work Orders through Supervisor for any items requiring repair or replacement that are not within the scope or ability of the position.
• Requisitions all supplies necessary to properly perform the duties of the position.
• Performs repairs and preventive maintenance on any equipment operated, and arranges for major repairs through the position's Supervisor.
• Maintains irrigation systems in assigned area including proper winterization measures and watering schedules (high school only)
• Maintains a schedule of events so that all athletic fields may be maintained as required (high school only)
• Prepares the competition fields and surrounding areas as required for scheduled competitions, including layout and painting of any required field markings (high school only)
• Assures that the natural and artificial athletic fields are cleaned and free of debris before and after all competitions in conjunction with custodial operations (high school only)
• Assists the Director of Buildings & Grounds Director immediate supervisor in research and recommendations for long-range facility improvements and preventative maintenance related to grounds keeping.
• Participates in appropriate professional organizations and appropriate professional development opportunities.
• Follows other directives from immediate supervisor and the Director of Buildings and Grounds that serve to improve services to the students and patrons of the Crown Point Community School Corporation.

ADA Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, and sit. The employee is frequently required to use hands to handle, as to operate office equipment; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must frequently lift up to 30 pounds and occasionally is required to lift up to 75 pounds such as bags of wood mulch, sand or fertilizer. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is moderate. Work is performed primarily out of doors in temperatures typical for March through September in Northwest Indiana and in direct sunlight or while it is raining.

Scope:

Position of Immediate Manager/Supervisor:

• High School Maintenance/Grounds Foreman or
• Corporation Grounds Foreman, and
• Director of Buildings and Grounds