Position: Maintenance/Grounds Keeper

Location: District-Wide

Reports To: Custodial and Maintenance Supervisor

Schedule:40 Hours per week 

Work Year: Full Year Position

Salary Range:  Per district Operations contract and depending on experience

Benefits: Family Health Insurance provided

Employer-paid sick days, personal days, and holidays

Retirement plan

Summary

• Grounds: To maintain lawns, athletic fields, and general grounds consistently and professionally.
• Maintenance & Custodial: To perform maintenance and repair as needed and to be familiar with the equipment operation and maintenance procedures related to essential functions of this position. To perform custodial duties in support of district-wide operations and grounds.
• Customer Service: Support the department and district staff with moves, deliveries, and services.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• The person in this position should have strong hands-on capabilities in terms of being able to do or learn how to do many of the tasks that our grounds and maintenance department performs, prioritizing work that needs to be done.
• This position is focused on customer service in meeting the needs of many areas of the district. Time management and prioritization of tasks is important to the role.
• This position will work with the Operations Supervisor, Executive Director of Operations and Transportation, Athletic Director, and other Administrators to have an understanding of what the needs and priorities of the District are.
• Ability to build strong working relationships with co-workers and staff.
• Must be a team player and supportive of the overall goals of the Operations Department and Caledonia Community Schools.
• Snow plowing
• Operates a wide variety of medium-duty grounds machinery, and hand and power tools to maintain the district grounds and athletic fields, performing maintenance as needed.
• Application of fertilizer, and/or chemical weed and disease control.
• Monitor, repair, and maintain in a safe condition all parking lots, district signage, playgrounds, playground equipment, sidewalks, fencing, trees, and related site equipment.
• Pick up trash in stadiums and athletic fields. Regularly empty trash receptacles at the athletic fields and clean athletic field restrooms.
• Performs and participates in building and equipment maintenance, minor electrical repairs, plumbing, carpentry, hardware, HVAC filter changes, painting, and other district maintenance tasks.
• Deliver and move a wide variety of products and items throughout the district.
• Additional duties as directed by the Operations Supervisor and/or the Executive Director of Operations and Transportation.

Employment Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Experience in grounds, sports turf-related work, and snow plowing.
• Other related work experience may also qualify for consideration. Work experience should relate to facility maintenance/operations and/or grounds and sports turf maintenance with institutional experience being desirable.
• Ability to prioritize, organize, and plan grounds, snowplowing, and sports turf operations.
• Effectively communicate with a wide variety of people.
• Ability to work flexible hours as workload and project needs change.
• Must be team-oriented.

Current certification/knowledge base desirable:

• Pesticide / Herbicide application license or ability to acquire within three (3) months.
• All aspects of sprinkler systems installation and maintenance.
• All aspects of snow removal, salt treatment, and parking lot winter maintenance.
• Must be able to pull and back up a vehicle with a trailer in tow.
• The applicant will need to acquire a CDL license within eight (8) months of hire.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Mental/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors include but are not limited to continual walking, standing, climbing, stooping, bending, kneeling, reaching, heavy lifting, and carrying. Work in tiring and uncomfortable positions, outside and inside. Exposure to extreme temperatures. Frequent district-wide travel. On call.
Must be able to exert up to 75 pounds of force frequently, and/or 25 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Requires climbing and maneuvering on ladders, scaffolding, and/or in tight spaces.

Work Environment:
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, but occasionally high depending upon the student population and activities. The employee may be exposed to various conditions including wet or humid, work near moving parts, work in high precarious places, various cleaning agents, some hazardous chemicals and fumes, outdoor weather conditions, and risk of electrical shock and vibration. The employee may be
exposed to bodily fluids and blood-borne pathogens.

The Board of Education does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, (including sexual orientation and transgender identity), disability, age, religion, height, weight, marital or family status, military status, ancestry, genetic information, or any other legally protected category, (collectively, "Protected Classes"), in its programs and activities, including employment opportunities.