Grounds & Nursery Specialist - Spokane Falls Community College

Grounds & Nursery Specialist 2 - Spokane Falls Community College

Grounds & Nursery Specialist 2 - Spokane Falls Community College

Community Colleges of Spokane

Department: SFCC Facilities

Salary Range: $3,327 - $4,406

Starting salary for this position is: $3,327 (Monthly)

Employees hired at the entry step of this range receive salary step advancement after six months and every 12 months thereafter. An employee hired at anything higher than the entry step of the range will have salary step advancement after 12 months and every 12 months thereafter until they reach the top of the salary range. Each salary step advancement will be approximately a 5% increase.

Spokane Falls Community College, part of Spokane Colleges, serves 6,000 students with liberal arts/transfer and professional technical programs across a 12,302 square mile region in Eastern Washington.

Under general supervision of the Grounds Supervisor, the Grounds & Nursery Specialist 2 (G&NS2) will perform skilled gardening work in the maintenance of grounds, landscapes, nurseries as well as install, maintain, operate and adjust irrigation components for campus grounds and off-site locations operated by the Spokane Colleges.

• Apply pesticides and herbicides to flowers and shrubs and pre-emergent to grass. *
• Seed, mow, sweep, fertilize, top dress, edge, and maintain lawns. *
• Plant, transplant, trim, and water plants, flowers, trees, and shrubs. *
• Install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain sprinkler heads, adjust spray patterns, and install sprinkler lines. *
• Prepare soil for planting, seed, sod, plants, trees, and shrubs. *
• Clean, service, adjust, maintain, and make repairs to tools and equipment. *
• Use a variety of manual tools and equipment e.g., hand rakes, hand edgers, loppers, pruners, shovels, wheelbarrow, weeding fork, hoe, pesticide sprayers, & seed spreaders. *
• Operate a variety of powered and motorized equipment such as weed trimmers, trenchers, top dresser, chain saws, backpack blowers, handheld gas blowers, tillers, light tractors, front-end-loaders, small tractors, utility vehicles, skid steer, lawn mowers sweepers, aerators, rollers, sod cutters, and powered snow blowers. *
• Remove debris, leaves, brush, and pruning clippings from sidewalks, grounds, roads, ramps, and stairs. *
• Empty campus waste and recycling receptacles. *
• Utilize a variety of techniques to enrich and build soil structure. *
• Remove snow and ice from sidewalks, stairs, ramps and roads and sand/de-ice as required. *
• Model professional decorum and mutual respect in all personal interactions. *
• Complies with district policy, procedures and directives, state and federal regulations, orders and statute and collective bargaining agreements. *
• Support and advance the Spokane Colleges strategic plan, and perform other duties as assigned. *

* Indicates this is an essential duty.

• Action Oriented
• Optimizes Work Processes
• Ensures Accountability
• Drives Results
• Collaborates
• Values Differences
• Communicates Effectively
• Instills Trust
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness
• Self-Development
• Nimble Learning

Learn more about https://ccs.spokane.edu/Employment/Competencies

• Ability to do required work.
• Ability to work both independently and as a member of a team.
• Able to read and interpret instructions on Safety Data Sheets (SDS).

• Knowledge of grounds chemicals/fertilizers.
• One or more years of experience or training involving grounds maintenance, gardening, plant care, cultivation and landscape installation.
• Able to work alternate shifts.
• Experience using large grounds related equipment, e.g. backhoe, snow removal equipment, dump trucks, etc.
• Train…