Groundskeeper

FLSA Classification: Non-exempt
Reports To: Grounds Superintendent
Position Purpose: Performs maintenance and grounds-keeping tasks that ensure the care and upkeep of school property.   

About Girls Preparatory School

The mission of Girls Preparatory School (GPS) is to inspire each girl to lead a life of integrity and purpose by engaging her mind, cultivating her strengths, and nurturing her self-confidence and respect for others. Currently, 130 faculty and staff serve approximately 500 girls in grades 6-12 with a college preparatory curriculum that includes a full complement of courses in the humanities, STEM, the arts, and more, as well as a rich and varied cocurricular program. 

GPS prioritizes healthy connections and relationships, fostering a culture where each girl is known, heard, and empowered to use her voice. This culture of acceptance and belonging nurtures and lifts her up in mind, body, and spirit so that she can find her place and discover her potential, fostering confidence and joy for dynamic engagement in a rapidly changing world. 

Faculty and staff support each student in a learner-centered and collaborative culture that is aligned with our mission, vision, and values. Furthermore, faculty and staff are expected to understand and embody our tenets of excellence.

Essential Functions

• Performs grounds maintenance activities, i.e., cutting, mowing, weeding, edging, blowing, planting foliage, shoveling snow.  

• Performs shrubbery and tree maintenance activities, i.e., pruning limbs, shaping hedges, cutting branches.

• Prepares and paints athletic fields for practices and games

• Performs cleanup and worksite restoration activities, i.e., picking up litter, disposing of waste and debris, cleaning surfaces.

• Assists with custodial duties and building maintenance and repairs, as required.

• Operates various electric, gas and manually powered tools and equipment, i.e., saws, sprayers, air compressors, mowers, blowers, weed-eaters, hedge trimmers.

• Performs regular preventive maintenance and cleaning of equipment used; makes repairs within the scope of abilities.

• Responds to and takes appropriate actions in the event of emergency or critical incidents to resolve, confine or prevent potentially injurious or hazardous conditions.

• Request supplies as needed. 

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED is preferred and previously related experience.

• Ability to operate standard grounds-keeping equipment.

• Ability to apply common sense understanding and to carry out instructions furnished in written or oral form.  Ability to ascertain which people may need immediate assistance and to act accordingly.

• Ability to perform basic first aid.

• Ability to communicate effectively with all constituents in a school environment.

• Knowledge of O.S.H.A. requirements and the ability to routinely follow those guidelines and requirements.

Physical Requirements and Work Environment

• Tasks involve the ability to exert heavy physical effort in heavy work, including climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling, and lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of moderately heavy objects and materials weighing 20 to 50 pounds; may occasionally involve heavier objects and materials weighing up to 100 pounds.

• Tasks are regularly performed with potential exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as strong odors, fumes, dusts, wetness, humidity, machinery, vibrations, temperature and noise extremes, disease, pathogenic substances and toxic/poisonous agents.

It is the School’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, or disability or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws. It is the intent and resolve of the School to comply with the letter and the spirit of the law in the implementation of all facets of equal opportunity. The School’s equal employment opportunity practices extend to recruitment, hiring, selection, compensation, benefits, transfer, promotion, training, discipline, and all other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment.

All employees are responsible for complying with the School's equal employment opportunity policy.