Grounds Maintenance Worker

Initial Posting Date: 10/22/2026 Final date to receive applications: 10/28/2026 Agency:
State of Oregon Military Department Salary Range: $3,513 - $4,519 Position Type:
Employee

Position Title:

Grounds Maintenance Worker 1

The Oregon Military Department is a state agency that supports the Oregon National Guard. You are NOT required to be a member of the Oregon National Guard to apply for this position. The Oregon Military Department is recruiting for a Grounds Maintenance Worker
1. This is a permanent full-time state position located at Camp Rilea in Warrenton, Oregon. This position is represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees’ (AFSCME) union.

NOTE:

This recruitment announcement will be used to establish a list of qualified candidates to fill the current vacancy and may be used to fill future vacancies as they occur. OMD is dedicated to diversity efforts that reinforce respectful treatment of others in the workplace. These efforts focus on identifying ways to work better together, reducing conflict by increasing understanding, improving collaboration, fostering teamwork, and increasing productivity and quality of services delivered by OMD.

Employee maintains roads and grounds, such duties consist of turf management for mowing of lawns, fields and training areas; irrigation activities; fertilization and pesticide functions; flower bed maintenance, pruning activities, and roadway maintenance using tractors, mowers, blowers, weed eaters, brush cutters, chain saws, garden tools, etc.

Subject to loud noise and unsanitary work conditions several times monthly. Regularly exposed to dust and blowing sand. Works in inclement weather. Must be able to lift 70 lbs and also carry equipment such as weed eaters, backpack sprayers and blowers for sustained periods. Must be able to operate mowers and weed eaters on uneven terrain and hillsides. Positions require the willingness to work with and around restricted-use pesticides.

Operates motor vehicles, tractors, mowers, man lifts, backhoes and forklifts.

• An associate's degree in landscape technology, horticulture, turf management or closely related field
  -AND
  - Six (6) months of landscape experience.
• *** OR
  * ** Two (2) years of landscape experience.

Please Note:

Please be sure that the work experience section of your application clearly describes your experience, skills and or education that are relevant to the above listed “What You Need to Qualify” section of the announcement.

• Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license and acceptable driving record.

• Experience with tools and machinery used for landscaping.
• Basic computer skills that include operating systems that manage commercial building systems.

Must have and maintain a favorable Criminal background History check and be able to obtain and maintain a favorable Department of Defense National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI) Suitability Determination (T1). (Conviction of a crime will not automatically preclude appointment, the circumstances involved in the conviction will be considered).

Employee is required to maintain a drug/alcohol free workplace in accordance with OMD Drug/Alcohol CPM’s, Policies, and the Statewide Drug Free Workplace Policy 50-000-01.

The work experience section of your application must include a clear description of your experience to determine if you meet the required skills (minimum qualifications) and at what level you meet the requested skills. Your answers to supplemental questions about your specific experience must also be supported in the work experience statements in your…