Groundskeeper at Factory

Job Title: Season Groundskeeper

Reports to: Lead Maintenance Technician

The groundskeeper assists the lead maintenance technician in maintaining the physical integrity of the community, ensuring a safe, secure, and comfortable living environment for residents, visitors, and staff.

• Meet with manager and/or lead maintenance technician regularly to set up schedules and achieve goals.

• Display a helpful, friendly and efficient attitude while working with residents, encouraging resident retention and courtesy at all times.
• Complete service requests in a timely, friendly manner to help ensure resident retention.
• When a resident is not at home, always leave a door hanger on the exterior and lock the door when working inside an apartment or when leaving an apartment.
• Leave a resident’s apartment in the same condition as when entered; do not use any resident’s belongings such as toilets, hand towels, etc.

• Report all major repairs that need to be made to the lead maintenance technician.

• Take responsibility for upkeep of grounds and amenity areas, maintaining awareness of property condition and immediately correcting unsafe conditions (e.g., broken glass, steps, holes).
• Keep pools and other amenities clean and operable.
• Maintain curb appeal by picking up trash and debris on property and parking lots, cleaning dumpster areas, and removing trash along tree lines or areas that are not routinely accessed.
• Maintain clean parking lots and tag cars that need to be towed; notify manager.
• Perform work‑area clean‑up and safety‑related duties.
• Change locks and make keys.
• Transfer heavy appliances and equipment between storage areas and apartments when warranted; assist in moving abandoned furniture or appliances to the dumpster.
• Assist in eviction set‑outs.
• Audit interior and exterior lighting; change light bulbs in all common areas.
• Assist with minor tasks—switch plates, drip pans, blinds, sparkling, etc.
• Organize, clean, and purge the maintenance shop.
• Complete exterior projects such as replacing exterior light globes, photocells, removing spiderwebs in common areas.
• Keep dumpster and compactor areas clean and debris‑free.
• Complete fence repairs, storage area clean‑outs, playground repairs, and common area laundry dryer vent clean‑outs.
• Diagnose and perform minor or routine maintenance or repair involving the following on a daily basis:

• Immediately respond to emergency situations and correct the problem.
• Respond to all assigned work orders on a timely basis (preferably within 24 hours) and notify management upon completion.
• Ensure that storage areas remain locked when not in use.
• Perform any additional duties assigned by lead maintenance technician and/or property manager.

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos; write simple correspondence; effectively present information in one‑on‑one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees.

Regularly use hands, fingers, and arms; reach, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. Frequently stand and walk; occasionally sit. Regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, often lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Frequently exposed to outdoor climatic conditions, including extreme heat, cold, and precipitation.

Requires close vision and ability to adjust focus.