GROUNDS KEEPER II

CRAVEN COUNTY SCHOOLS

GROUNDS CREW LEADER

POSITION DESCRIPTION

Position:  Grounds Crew Leader

Reports to:  Director of Facilities Support

Terms of Employment:  12 months

Pay Grade: 59 

Pay Range: 

FLSA Status:  Exempt

NATURE OF WORK

An employee in this class uses a variety of tools and equipment to maintain grounds including planting, cultivating, spraying, pruning, and cutting plants, trees, shrubs, grass, and flowers, and provides on-site leadership. This employee determines the care and treatment necessary to maintain grounds in good condition. To assure an attractive and orderly landscape, non-routine problems concerning the selection, placement, care, and treatment of plants are referred to a supervisor or nursery dealer for advice. Errors may be quickly revealed, or may only be revealed upon loss of plant life, and may be expensive. Limited supervision is given. The employee serves as a lead worker in providing direction to crew members

ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES OF WORK

• Cuts lawns. Trims and edges.
• Prunes shrubs and trees to shape and improve growth. Removes damaged leaves, branches, or twigs.
• Sprays  lawns,  plants,  shrubs,  and  trees  with  fertilizer,  herbicides,  and  pesticides,  using  hand  or automatic sprayer.
• Conditions  and  prepares  soils  and  transplants  or  plants  seeds,  seedlings  or  bulbs  according  to instructions and planned design of landscaped area.
• Plants grass, flowers, trees, and shrubs following sketches and designs when available. Waters lawns, shrubs, and flowers.
• Maintains paths or road surfaces.
• Performs ground maintenance duties, using tractor equipped with attachments, such as mowers, lime or fertilizer spreaders, lawn roller, and snow removal equipment, and operates heavy power equipment.
• Drives dump trucks and transports tractor and ground maintenance equipment. Makes minor repairs to mowers and other equipment.
• Sharpens tools. Trains employees.
• Assigns work to crew members. Observes work in progress.
• Gives directions for corrections as needed.
• Reports outstanding or unsatisfactory work and behavior to supervisors.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Working knowledge of grounds keeping and elementary horticultural practices.
• Working knowledge of planting, cultivating, pruning, spraying, and trimming requirements of flowers, shrubs and trees.
• Skill to drive dump trucks.
• Skill to transport tractors and other maintenance equipment. Skill to operate heavy power equipment.
• Ability to use, sharpen and make minor repairs to tools and equipment. Ability to follow oral or written instructions.
• Ability to follow simple landscape sketches and designs.
• Ability to coordinate the efforts of a group of employees.
• Ability to train other workers.
• Ability to provide leadership to employees in this class.

SUGGESTED TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

Considerable experience in the care and maintenance of plants, trees, flowers, and shrubs.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

The employee must hold a pesticide applicator's license based on State requirements, as directed by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture.

This employee must hold an appropriate North Carolina drivers license for the weight and type of vehicles operated as required by the Department of Motor Vehicles.

This specification has been designed to represent the general nature and level of work found in positions in this class. As such, it is not intended to contain all of the duties and qualifications required of an employee in a single position (job). Consequently, it is not to be perceived as a position (job) description or as identification of essential functions as required by ADA. 7/94

* In compliance with Federal Law, Craven County Schools administers all education programs, employment activitities and admissions without discrimination against any person on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age or disability.