Groundskeeper

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Current Employees:
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Position Title:

Groundskeeper

Employment Type:

Regular

Profile:
The Groundskeeper will work in an extremely collaborative educational environment to care year-round for the 326 acres that make up campus grounds. This includes approximately 100 acres of athletic fields, lawns, and manicured landscaping; 150 acres of woods and prairies; 65 acres of sidewalks, parking lots, and streets; and 90 acres of land at the Platte Mound (the lands surrounding and extending beyond the “Big M”).

• Maintains clean and clear lawns, walkways, roadways, and parking lots to ensure they are free of debris, litter, snow, and ice.
• Constructs lawn and landscaping projects including soil grading, seeding, and sodding.
• Identifies and acts to remedy plant diseases and insect damage.
• Implements and monitors chemical and fertilizer programs.
• Installs, propagates, and maintains the health of new and existing plants and landscape using a variety of vehicles and equipment.
• Maintains grounds accessories to include picnic tables, benches, receptacle containers.
• Installation and maintenance of signage.
• Maintenance and modification of grounds, installation and restoration of lawn, landscape beds and prairie areas.
• Use appropriate equipment to maintain lawns, athletic fields, prairie areas, landscape beds, etc.
• Application of fertilizer and pesticides as needed.
• Plant trees, shrubs and flowers as needed.
• Trim trees and shrubs and maintain flower beds and water as needed.
• Collect trash from grounds, empty trash and recycling containers and dispose of properly.
• Maintenance of equipment and signage along with the distribution of all university freight from Central Stores and Receiving.
• Snow removal service.

• Applicants must be legally entitled to work in the U.S. at the time of hire.
• A criminal background check is required for employment.

The University of Wisconsin-Platteville is committed to recruiting, supporting and fostering a diverse, inclusive and civil community of outstanding faculty, staff and students, and is an AA/EEO Employer. The names of nominees and applicants who have not requested in writing that their identities be kept confidential, and of all finalists, will be released upon request.

Benefits:
Excellent fringe benefits – medical, dental, paid leave, Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) retirement benefits, and more.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:
Apply Online: ipc.us/t/5D