Groundskeeper

Groundskeeper

Agency:
Department of Military Affairs

Location:

Starke, FL

Requisition No: 867144

Salary: $34,760.00

Posting Closing Date: 01/01/2026

The mission of the Florida Department of Military Affairs is to provide management oversight of the Florida National Guard and provide units and personnel ready to support national security objectives; to protect the public safety of citizens and to contribute to the national, state and community programs that add value to the United States of America and to the State of Florida.

• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Dental, Vision, and Supplemental Insurance
• Retirement Benefits
• Vacation and Sick Leave
• Paid Holidays
• Opportunities for Career Advancement
• Tuition Waiver for Public College Courses
• Training Opportunities
• For benefit information available to State of Florida employees, go to

• New employees of the Department of Military Affairs will be required to pass a pre‑employment drug screening.
• New employees of the Department of Military Affairs are required to participate in a direct deposit/electronic transfer program.
• The Department of Military Affairs is paid on a monthly basis.
• This position is a Cooperative Agreement position.
• As a CANDIDATE, you are required to provide documentation (i.e., High School Diploma or Equivalency, College Transcripts, ETC.) to verify meeting these Minimum Qualifications.
• Must be able to obtain a completion of a favorable National Agency Check background investigation clearance.

• A High School Diploma or equivalent.
• One (1) year experience landscaping or maintaining grounds and property or related work.

• Must be able to bend, squat, climb, kneel, twist, grasp, push, and pull.
• Must have manual dexterity with hands and fingers.
• Ability to lift a minimum of 50lbs. or more.

• Maintaining all lawns ensuring that the length does not exceed 6 inches between cuttings.
• Maintaining all field areas ensuring that the length does not exceed 8 inches between cutting including fence lines.
• Maintaining edging along all sidewalks and curb areas once a month during the growing season.
• Maintaining hedges and shrubs ensuring that they are trimmed at least once a month during the growing season.
• Caring for established lawns by mulching, aerating, weeding, grubbing, removing thatch.
• Trimming and/or edging around flower beds, walks, or walls.
• Picking up and emptying waste and recycling receptacles as required.
• Maintaining irrigation systems, including winterizing the systems and starting them up in spring.
• Trimming or picking flowers and cleaning flower beds.
• Ability to use hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush trimmers, or axes.
• Operate equipment and tools to prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges, using shears, pruners, or chain saws.
• Operate vehicles and powered equipment, such as mowers, tractors, twin‑axle vehicles, chain saws, electric clippers, sod cutters, and pruning saws.

• Ensures proper maintenance and servicing of mowers, weed eaters, chainsaws and edging equipment to include:
• Performs minor maintenance and repairs on push and riding type mowers and identifies equipment that require contract maintenance to the Facility Manager.
• Performs minor maintenance and repairs of weed eaters, chain saws, hedge trimmers, walk behind edgers, blowers and stick edgers.
• Responsible for ensuring an adequate supply of oil, fuel, weed eater string, and minor repair parts are on hand to maintain lawn equipment.

• Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs,…