Groundskeeper

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At Clarke University, we look for individuals who lead from the heart and embrace our values of education, charity, justice, and freedom. By creating a community focused on care, we empower everyone at Clarke to do and be their best. We offer meaningful work, a safe and friendly work environment, and an outstanding benefits package including tuition remission, paid holidays vacation and sick time, and extensive professional development opportunities.

• Maintain grounds, including lawn areas, planting beds, sidewalks, parking lots, and streets.
• Perform seeding, planting, and transplanting of flowers, trees, shrubs and lawns.
• Water, weed, and cultivate planting beds; remove spent blooms and trim hedges and shrubs.
• Apply chemicals used in grounds keeping (horticulture, turf management, and floriculture).
• Perform grounds cleaning of trash and debris.
• Perform Spring and Fall grounds clean-up activities on campus.
• Collect trash from buildings and grounds and place in designated trash and recycling dumpsters.
• Operate tractors with attachments such as mowers, seeders, sprayers, aerators, snow plows, and snow blowers.
• Ensure equipment is operational by performing routine/preventative maintenance and cleaning equipment and machines within reasonable capabilities.
• Perform snow and ice removal from parking lots and sidewalks.
• Assist in directing the work of student employees as directed by supervisor.
• Respond to calls for emergency service including snow removal.
• Assist maintenance personnel and campus setups as directed.

• A high school diploma and/or GED and at least 1 year of grounds or related work experience.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Ability to attain an Iowa Applications Permit for herbicides and pesticides.

To apply for this position, please upload a cover letter and resume online at  Start date is negotiable.