Lead Groundskeeper

FT Lead Groundskeeper

Salary: $68,305.92 - $82,087.20 Annually
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: Lead Groundskeeper-2025
Closing: 12/26/2025 11:59 PM Pacific
Location: Norwalk, CA
Department: Lead Groundskeeper-2025
Division: Facilities

The District is strongly committed to achieving staff diversity and the principles of equal opportunity employment. The District encourages a diverse pool of applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, religion, marital status, disability, or sexual orientation in any of its policies, procedures or practices. In fact, the college encourages applications from all segments of qualified people.

Cerritos College serves as a comprehensive community college for southeastern Los Angeles County, with an enrollment of about 20,000 students and offers more than 180 areas of study across nine divisions.

The Facilities department maintains the campus’s physical environment. As the primary point of contact for all service and maintenance requests, the department evaluates customer service requests and works to ensure the highest standards of care for students, faculty, staff, and the community.

Plans, prioritizes, assigns, reviews, and collaborates with a team of Groundskeepers to provide grounds, sports field, and landscape maintenance, including major equipment operation, turf management, and irrigation.

The Lead Groundskeeper is a senior, partial leadership position requiring competency in equipment operation, irrigation, and project leadership.

• Coordinates, prioritizes, and assigns Groundskeepers. Participates in and reviews the work progress and results of grounds and landscape maintenance services.
• Accesses, retrieves, and assigns work orders using the automated work order system.
• Provides and/or coordinates training of grounds workers to improve their skills and work performance.
• Establishes schedules and methods for providing grounds and landscape maintenance services within the limitations of available staffing and equipment and in compliance with established health and safety regulations.
• Participates in and administers grounds and landscape maintenance project planning. Prepares drawings and other diagrams for grounds and landscape projects such as beautification and athletic fields. Estimates project cost, including labor hours and materials. Monitors expenditures and timely completion of assigned duties.
• Monitors the preventive and regular maintenance of assigned equipment. Requisition s supplies and equipment. Recommends acquisition of new equipment or disposal of existing equipment.
• Coordinates a small team to take on district maintenance projects, including but not limited to moving materials and equipment, repairing fences, roofs and asphalt, mixing and pouring concrete, and installing play and athletic field equipment.
• Ensures that outdoor courts, tracks, and fields are ready for intercollegiate and recreational events.
• Operates a backhoe and other excavating/landscaping equipment requiring similar training.
• Coordinates, reviews, maintains, and ascertains the Safety Data Sheets (SDS) for the Maintenance department, including the master campus logs.
• Installs, repairs, and replaces landscape irrigation systems following, interpreting, and modifying blueprints, designs, or sketches.
• Installs, adjusts, maintains, and repairs electronic timers. Installs, inspects, and performs repairs to electronic and hydraulic valves and controllers.
• Replaces and repairs a wide variety of sprinkler heads and lines by removing, disassembling and replacing worn or broken parts.
• Drains, flushes, cleans, and repairs water storage reservoirs and irrigation boxes from water sources on a periodic basis. Performs maintenance on fire hydrants. Assists with installation of new water lines.
• Applies fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides to areas, as authorized. Places postings where pesticides are being applied. Disposes of product containers per instructions and applicable environmental regulations.
• Ensures the safe and proper application of herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizer.
• Prepares and maintains a variety of records and reports pertaining to work orders, work schedules, equipment repair, and supplies. Documents work activities, inspections, and unanticipated occurrences. Maintains master campus logs of SDS sheets.
• Raises and lowers flags according to protocol.
• Maintains currency in knowledge and skills related to the duties and responsibilities.
• Use of District owned vehicles for on and off campus business will be required.
• Performs other related duties as assigned, including those of a Groundskeeper.

High School diploma or equivalent and 4 years of increasingly responsible groundskeeping experience in turf management, operation of excavating equipment, landscaping, horticulture, and irrigation. Post–high school…