Furman University
Groundskeeper
Main Campus, USA · Part-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 77 days ago
HR
About the role
- To maintain the grass, shrubbery, flowers, trees, and general appearance of the campus property.
- Job Description:
Responsibilities
- Maintains the grass on campus property by:
- Maintains shrubbery, plants, trees and flower beds by:
Requirements
- 2 years experience in related field.
- Ability to read and understand instructions for the use of machinery, chemicals and seed/fertilizer.
- Experience in the operation of grounds tools/equipment.
- If you have previously applied, make sure your information is current as you can transfer it to another application.
Nice to have
- Horticultural degree or equivalent experience preferred.
Skills
- Frequent lifting grounds equipment into and out of pick up trucks. (ie: backpack
- blowers, sprayers, chainsaws, weedeaters, etc. up to 50 lbs.)
- Frequent reaching, bending, stooping when pruning shrubs, flowers and hedges.
- Frequent pushing mowers, blowers, and edgers.
- Frequent driving/operating mowers/tractors, etc. using handles, foot pedals and hand levers.
- Frequent operating weedeaters by holding them above the ground and moving them back and forth while walking.
- Frequent recognizing disease, problems to report to supervisor.
- Frequent lifting bags (up to 50 lbs) of seed, fertilizer, etc.
- Frequent using hand tools such as spades, clippers, and shovels.
Compensation
- Compensation Grade:
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