TJJD - Groundskeeper II GID

Overview

Job Title:

Groundskeeper II (GID) – Texas Juvenile Justice Department.

Work Location:

Giddings, TX. This role involves maintaining grounds, gardens, and exterior areas of buildings, and caring for equipment and supplies.

• Mows, trims grass, prepares ground for planting, trims and waters trees, flowers, shrubs.
• Operates powered equipment: mowers, tractors, chainsaws, electric clippers, sod cutters, pruning shears.
• Removes dirt, rubbish, and refuse from grounds; cleans tools and equipment.
• Services, repairs, and performs preventive maintenance on groundskeeping equipment.
• Drives trucks to pick up or haul materials, supplies, and dirt.
• Mixes, sprays, or spreads fertilizers, herbicides, or insecticides onto grass, shrubs, flowers, and trees, using hand or automatic sprayers or spreaders.
• Inspects for pests and diseases and takes steps for eradication.
• Facilitates event set‑up on the grounds.
• Paints various locations and items on campus.
• Travel up to 10% of the time and performs related work as assigned.

Employees at this level perform complex (journey-level) ground and building maintenance work, working under general supervision with limited latitude for initiative and independent judgment. Employees may work more independently than previous levels and may assist other staff in more complex tasks.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Repair and perform preventive maintenance work on fountains, planters, parking lots, driveways, roads, fences, and sidewalks.
• Inspect building exteriors and parking facilities for cleanliness, completion of requested work, and needed repairs.
• Conduct minor facility and equipment repairs and installations.

• High school diploma or equivalent and 1 year experience in groundskeeping work.
• Must complete mandatory pre‑employment drug testing; offer contingent upon acceptable drug screen.
• Knowledge of planting and care of trees, shrubbery, flowers, grasses, and pesticides, fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides.
• Skill operating hand and power tools, motorized equipment, and maintaining and repairing sidewalks and parking lots.
• Ability to detect diseases in trees, shrubbery, flowers, and grasses.

Heavy lifting or carrying 45 lbs or more, climbing ladders and stairs, pulling and pushing heavy objects, repeated bending and reaching, walking, standing, sitting, crawling, twisting, kneeling, stooping. Requires visual acuity, hearing (with aid), effective oral and written communication, ability to operate motor equipment, and perform tactile discernment.

State of Texas benefits include a retirement plan, paid group health and life insurance, paid holidays, vacation leave, sick leave, longevity pay, educational assistance program, and employee assistance program. Optional benefits: dental, vision, life insurance, voluntary ADD insurance, dependent health life insurance, health dependent care flexible spending accounts. Hazardous duty pay and career ladder advancements may apply. Free meals are available while on duty for certain positions.

Entry level. Part‑time. Management and Manufacturing is the job function. Public Safety industry.