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• Perform grounds maintenance duties including grounds cleanliness, shrub pruning, turf fertilization and mowing, landscape equipment operation, pesticide application and landscape renovation around several campus buildings.
• Maintain campus lawns by irrigating, mowing, edging, hand trimming, fertilizing, using weed control methods, and performing other, grounds, duties as assigned.
• Prepare areas for seed or sod, lay sod, and sow seed.
• Operate riding mowers, carts, rototillers, lawn sweepers, and aerators as needed.
• Maintain campus trees and shrubs by planting, pruning, watering, spraying, weeding, and cleaning shrub plantings.
• Plant, maintain, trim, and prune hedges.
• Prepare flowerbeds for growing annuals and bulbs.
• Maintain appropriate recordkeeping and minor equipment operation/maintenance.

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You have worked hard to earn a High School diploma or GED.

You possess at least 3 years in ground maintenance, including basic grounds maintenance functions of mowing/trimming, mulching, shrub pruning, pesticide application, and grounds cleanliness.

You have demonstrated basic and intermediate skills in landscape maintenance.

You are able to operate and maintain landscape equipment.

You have the ability to read pesticide labels and mix according to label instructions.

You have good work organization and the ability to problem-solving.

You have the ability to keep records, to read, write and speak English, to perform basic mathematics.

You are able to communicate effectively with supervisor and co-workers.

You are capable of lifting and carrying 25 to 50 lbs. frequently, and up to 60 lbs. occasionally.

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