Grounds Maintenance Worker

• Base Pay $15.09 / Hour
• Employee Type FT Non-Exempt
• Required Degree High school
• Manage Others No

To perform a variety of unskilled and semi-skilled tasks in the maintenance and operation of buildings, grounds and parks.

Employee has no direct supervisory responsibilities.

• Mows and maintains park and open space areas such as baseball and soccer fields, mows weeds, cleans and maintains tennis courts, maintains sprinkler systems and assists in the repair and installation of sprinkler lines and heads.
• Inspects, washes, and performs routine maintenance of park drinking fountains and restrooms.
• Sweeps, washes, paints, and repairs or replaces park tables and slabs.
• Performs minor semi-skilled interior building maintenance such as painting, plumbing, carpentry, and other unskilled and semi-skilled trades work.
• Performs routine maintenance on lawn and power equipment.
• Plants lawns, trees, shrubs, and flowers.
• Carries out the seeding, fertilizing, top dressing, soil conditioning, watering, and the pest and weed control of parks and open spaces.
• Maintains and adjusts specialized turf care equipment and tools, including electric motors, pumps, sprinklers, tractors, mowers, and irrigation systems.
• Operates tractors, mowers, jackhammers, welders, trucks, steam cleaners, buffers, washers, and other listed equipment as needed.
• Maintains current skills and knowledge in the proper and safe techniques of building and grounds maintenance functions.
• Collects and disposes of solid waste from buildings and grounds; picks up litter from premises.
• Assists in setting up and taking down furniture for various recreation programs, prepares facilities for park and recreation program use.
• Keep records of work completed.
• Possesses and maintains a valid driver’s license and comply with City of Killeen.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Pickup truck, lawn and landscaping equipment, including tractors, mowers, aerifier, chain saw, edgers, weed trimmers, electric motors, pumps, sprinklers, irrigation systems, welding equipment, miscellaneous hand and power tools for turf maintenance; carpentry, painting, plumbing, electrical, and cement finishing work; janitorial equipment, safety equipment as required.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts and in outside weather conditions. The employee frequently works in high, precarious places and is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock.

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Formal application, rating of education and experience; oral interview and reference check; job related tests may be required.

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position.

The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.