Grounds keeper

Grounds keeper

Title:   Grounds keeper

Department:  Campus Operations - Grounds

Employment Status:  Full time

FLSA Status:  Non-Exempt

Organizational Relationship:  Reports to working Grounds Forman

Job Purpose:  To enhance and maintain the College’s grounds so that these provide a positive impression to existing and prospective students, employees and visitors.

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:   

Essential Functions: 

  • Daily maintenance of landscape areas throughout the college campus and related locations.
  • Must be able to operate tractors, lawn mowers and drive trucks with standard shift.
  • Mow, line trim, and police around all Wagner properties and athletic fields.
  • Trim all scrubs, bushes and trees on Wagner properties and athletic fields.
  • Collect garbage on all Wagner properties on Wagner properties and athletic fields.
  • Paint the required lines, letters and numbers needed on athletic fields.
  • Apply fertilizer and chemicals to all Wagner properties and athletic fields.
  • Field man schedule is to be rotating as per games.
  • On snow days all workers that are on-call have to come into work as required.
  • When there is snow, shovel snow or plow snow on all Wagner properties.
  • When there is snow, apply ice melting chemicals on all streets, paths, and staircases on all Wagner properties.

 Non-Essential Functions

  • Work on installation and repair of turf irrigation on all Wagner properties and all athletic fields.
  • Dig trenches, plant, grade and landscape all Wagner properties and athletic fields as required.

Nothing in this job description restricts Management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

QUALIFICATIONS        

 Work Experience:

  • 5-7 years experience doing landscaping and landscape maintenance.
  • Ability to drive standard shift including the ability to drive tractors and trucks.
  • Mechanical skills working with lawn mowers, lime trimmers, chain saws and gas trimmers.
  • Experience in gardening is required.

 Education:

  • High school diploma, GED or comparable education.

 Licenses:                     

  • Valid driver’s license.

 Desired Work Traits:    

  • The successful candidate will be available to be called in to work at any time to remove a hazardous condition made by snow, ice, freezing rain or falling trees.
  • The successful candidate will be expected to be available to work overtime the day proceeding and on any important dates. (Such as: an Open House, Homecoming, Commencement, and Athletic events important to the Wagner community).  These dates are almost always posted on a calendar of events in advance.

Communication/Interpersonal Skills:

  • Ability to communicate effectively with various campus constituencies.

 SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS

  • The incumbent employee shall be included in the Local 30, I.U.O.E AFL-CIO bargaining unit and shall be employee subject to the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement between Local 30 and Wagner College.
  • Must supply two (2) letters of recommendation.
  • Ability to work overtime when necessary.
  • Working in an outdoors environment.
  • See attached physical assessment form.

To apply, please direct cover letters and resumes to:

Heather Gray, Campus Operations Administrative Assistant at heather.gray@wagner.edu with the subject line “Grounds keeper”

The review of applications will begin immediately.

Additional Information

In compliance with NYC’s Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary for this position is $22.86 per hour. Wagner College considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and organizational considerations when extending an offer.

Wagner College achieves this mission through the implementation and enhancement of The Wagner Plan for the Practical Liberal Arts, which was formally launched in 1998. This innovative and bold curricular methodology is predicated on a method of integrated learning. It builds upon Wagner’s history of combining liberal arts and focused professional programs, coupled with our unique location and requires experiential learning for all students. The Plan has thus ushered in a new vision of engaged student learning that is at once reflective and integrated, theoretical and practical. Our goal has been, and continues to be, to provide a transformative college experience which best prepares our students for positions of effective and responsible leadership and citizenship in their chosen professions, and in their personal and public lives. From the outset, our faculty have eagerly led this learning centered endeavor.

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Wagner College offers a generous benefit package that includes medical, dental, vision, pension and paid time off benefits to all full-time employees. The Wagner College Office of Human Resources partners with all members of the College community to cultivate a work environment that values equal opportunity, diversity equity inclusion and access, professional development and individual excellence.

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