Groundskeeper III Mon- Fri 6:25am-2:55pm

Georgia Tech; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia Tech is seeking a lead grounds keep technician to supervise and perform landscape maintenance across campus. The role involves coordinating crews, operating equipment, applying chemicals, and ensuring quality grounds care. You will report to the supervisor and help drive safety and efficiency in day-to-day operations.

The position emphasizes reliability, adherence to schedules, and professional conduct while maintaining outdoor spaces across the Atlanta campus.

Qualifications

• High school diploma, GED certificate or vocational school diploma.
• Three to four years of job related experience.
• Valid Georgia Driver's License.
• Experience with grounds maintenance processes and supervising crews.

Responsibilities

• Lead in and perform maintenance of trees, shrubs, groundcovers and flower beds.
• Transport equipment and personnel to and from job sites.
• Provide instructions to landscaping crews as required.
• Lead in and perform lawn maintenance activities.
• Keep grounds free of debris and manage trash and storm drains.
• Apply chemicals to lawn, trees, shrubs, and flowers.
• Perform routine equipment maintenance.
• Complete daily grounds maintenance reports.
• Train new employees in grounds keeping duties; promote safe practices.

Skills

Grounds maintenance experience

Leadership

Valid Georgia Driver's License

Education

High school diploma, GED, or vocational diploma

Job description

About Us

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do: 1. Students are our top priority. 2. We strive for excellence. 3. We thrive on diversity. 4. We celebrate collaboration. 5. We champion innovation. 6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression. 7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community. 8. We act ethically. 9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Job Location

Atlanta, Georgia

Employment Type

Full-Time (Regular)

Job Summary

Serve as a lead capacity in performing general and specialized landscape and grounds maintenance activities to include plantings, chemical applications and equipment maintenance. This position will interact on a consistent basis with supervisor and coworkers. This position typically will advise and counsel grounds keeping personnel. This position will supervise: NA.

Responsibilities

• Lead in and perform maintenance of trees, shrubs, groundcovers and flower beds.


• Transport equipment and personnel via motor vehicle to and from job sites.


• Provide instructions to landscaping crews as required.


• Lead in and perform lawn maintenance activities.


• Keeps landscape and grounds free of debris, trash, branches and leaves, remove ice, empty trash receptacles, clean storm drains and ash urns.


• Apply chemicals to maintain the Institute's lawn, trees, shrubs, groundcover, and flowers.


• Perform routine maintenance of equipment.


• Complete daily grounds maintenance reports.


• Train new employees in grounds keeping duties; promote safe working practices.


• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

High school diploma, GED Certificate or Vocational School Diploma

Three to four years of job related experience

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

This job requires working knowledge of grounds maintenance processes and practices including operation and maintenance of related equipment, use of radio communications equipment and operation of a motor vehicle. Skills in providing work direction, work-related training and leadership are required.

Valid Georgia Driver's License.

USG Core Values

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The Institute is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and Institute policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, and services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Equal opportunity and decisions based on merit are fundamental values of the University System of Georgia (\"USG\") and Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of an individual's race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

Other Information

This is not a supervisory position.

This position does not have any financial responsibilities.

This position will be required to drive.

This role is not considered a position of trust.

This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).

This position will not travel

This position does not require security clearance.

Job Code: C4B

Pay Range Starting At: $19.75/ hr

Shift Monday - Friday 6:25am-2:55pm

Background Check

Successful candidate must be able to pass a background check. Please visit http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening