Irrigation Specialist

Minimum Hiring Annual Salary: $50,622.00 Maximum Hiring Annual Salary: $54,672.00

To attain the maximum annual salary, employee must meet all minimum qualifications plus:

• 5 (five) years of additional applicable work experience and/or degrees higher than minimum qualification degree. Degrees higher than the minimum qualification degree can be used in combination with additional work experience.
• A combination of related education, on-the-job work experience, certifications and/or licenses that results in a candidate successfully meeting the minimum qualifications of the position, may be considered.

The stated salary amounts are not guaranteed in the event employment ends with Aims during any fiscal year.

• Benefits are effective immediately
• 100% employer provided medical & dental coverage employees (employee only option)
• 85% employer provided medical & dental coverage for employee's spouse and/or family
• Voluntary vision insurance
• Staff Annual Leave (minimum accrual of 15 days) & Sick (minimum accrual of 12 days)
• 17 paid holidays and 3 personal days each year
• Summer schedule: 4-day work week - Fridays Off
• Employer paid long-term disability and life insurance premiums
• Tuition waiver & reimbursement for employees
• Tuition waiver for dependents
• PERA employer (see (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). for comprehensive benefits)
• Additional supplemental benefits & retirement programs available
• Access to the PERC (Aims gym) for employee & one guest
• Free parking on all campuses

Aims Community College actively supports an environment that embraces the College's Mission, Vision, Values and a culture of innovation and care. The College embraces and seeks to hire individuals who want to be a part of this environment and have the skill sets necessary to be successful in this position.

Aims Community College has six campuses in Greeley, Fort Lupton, Windsor, and Flight Training Center in Loveland. This position is responsible for 100 acres of irrigated landscape on the Greeley campus, which includes various types of sprinkler heads, miles of underground piping, miles of underground wire, electric valves, SIC backflows, and two raw water pump stations.

• Responsible for all phases of the campus irrigation system. Including round-the-clock scheduling of sprinkler operation via linked commercial irrigation controllers (a.k.a. timers, clocks) acting in tandem.
• Monitor functioning and consequent adjustment, repair, or replacement of commercial, large-volume sprinklers, spray heads, and drip systems across acres of turf grass, trees, flowers, and shrubs.
• Preventative maintenance (lubrication and monitoring, regulation of outflow) of pumps, backflows, and related irrigation clocks and equipment. Biannual closing (for winter to prevent freezing) and opening (in spring at onset of sprinkler season) of sprinkler line drains and blowing out of lines for winter with commercial air compressor.
• Repair of underground, high-pressure-rated sprinkler lines (encompassing all turf areas) up to 8" diameter. Commercial sprinkler head repair, including electrical diagnostic procedures, and subsequent repair of commercial irrigation electric valves throughout the system.
• Inventory and replacement of complete irrigation parts supply.

• Tree, shrub removal, trimming, and pruning.
• Fertilizing turf areas, trees, and other landscaping areas.
• Apply herbicides and pesticides.
• Chip tree branches for mulch.
• Regularly check drainage areas to ensure they are clear of debris.
• Be aware of stormwater violations.
• Collect and dispose of debris and litter.

• Plow parking lots with a pickup-mounted snowplow.
• Hand-shovel specific areas not accessible by motorized vehicles/equipment.
• Distribute sand, ice melt, or equivalent by means of specialized equipment.
• Follow-up.

• Design, install, and maintain new and existing landscape projects.
  • Includes:
    Utilization of AutoCAD computer program and hand-drawn prints for irrigation and landscape design.
• Installation of design projects in the field, direction and oversight of other grounds employees, use of commercial power equipment (i.e. for trenchers), technical equipment…