Specialist, Golf Course Grounds

Austin Community College

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- AR 4.0300.01

Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester. We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement. We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching
• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities
• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.
• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes
• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others
• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Specialist, Golf Course Grounds

To support the day-to-day golf course grounds operations serving as a backup and assistant to the Golf Course Grounds Supervisor.

• Serving as a backup supervisor.
• Proper pesticide and fertilizer application.
• Fertilizers, insecticides, and herbicides used in grounds care and gardening.
• Equipment, tools, and procedures used in grounds care.
• Safe work practices.

• Effective supervisory and delegation skills, team building, and ability to collaborate well with others as well as working independently.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.
• Strong customer-service orientation when working with employee, community, and partner populations.
• Effective planning, organizing, implementation, communication (both written and verbal), problem-solving, and interpersonal skills including use of tact and discretion and the ability to meet deadlines.
• Reliability to maintain an established but flexible work schedule.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of employee and work-related information.
• Operating grounds maintenance equipment and tools.
• Applying fertilizers, insecticides, and pesticides.

• Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.

• Two years related work experience.

• High school diploma or educational equivalent.

• Work is performed in a variety of settings including indoor and outdoor. Subject to temperature extremes.
• Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling and at times subject to stooping and climbing ladders or stairs.
• May need to lift heavy objects of up to 50 pounds and occasionally up to 100 pounds.

• Supervise safe operation of unit. Facilitate safety inspections. Take reasonable and prudent actions to eliminate identified hazards. Ensure employees receive appropriate safety training and foster a workplace safety culture.

$47,840 - $51,189

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