Furman University

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:

This listing is sourced directly from Furman University's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.