Hybrid Campus Operations - Grounds - Groundskeeper bei Wagner College
Wagner College · Staten Island, Vereinigte Staaten Von Amerika · Hybrid
- Senior
- Optionales Büro in Staten Island
Title: Groundskeeper
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 they 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 a 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 rotated 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.
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.
Computer Skills: N/A
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 an 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 outdoor environment.
- See attached physical assessment form.
Nothing in this job description restricts Management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
Company
Wagner College, founded in 1883, seamlessly blends professional programs with a liberal arts grounding for a comprehensive, experiential-forward education that fosters well-rounded, adaptable graduates. The college’s verdant residential campus offers a traditional college experience on New York City’s Staten Island.
Wagner prides itself on robust student support services, including personalized academic advising, comprehensive career counseling, and a wide array of wellness programs. Students are prepared not only for professional success but also for meaningful lives through the faculty’s dedication to promoting scholarship, achievement, leadership and citizenship.
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.
Wagner College provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Wagner College complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
