Manager, Grounds

Jackie Robinson Training Complex is looking for a Manager, Grounds to oversee and participate in the maintenance of all sports fields, practice areas, indoor and outdoor training surfaces, landscaped areas, and other common areas. This hands‑on manager directs the day‑to‑day sports turf and landscape maintenance activities and personnel, ensuring safe, playable, event‑ready facilities for year‑round programmes and events at the 80‑acre complex in Vero Beach, Florida, operated by Major League Baseball.

The complex serves as a year‑round hub for amateur development initiatives and events, including the Nike RBI World Series and the Hank Aaron Invitational, and contains multiple baseball, softball and multipurpose fields, an indoor training complex, and landscaped areas.

• Lead daily grounds operations and establish annual, seasonal, and daily work plans based on field use, event schedules, agronomic needs, weather, and facility priorities.
• Recruit, train, schedule, supervise, coach, and evaluate full‑time and part‑time grounds employees; establish clear assignments, performance standards, safety expectations, and accountability.
• Directly supervise the Facility Mechanic and ensure timely preventive maintenance, inspection, repair, and service documentation for the facility's golf‑cart fleet and grounds and facility equipment.
• Coordinate with Operations, Athletics, Event Planning, Engineering, and event leadership stakeholders to ensure execution of facility preparation for groups.
• Direct the preparation, setup, conversion, and recovery of baseball, softball and multipurpose surfaces for practices, games, camps, tournaments, Major League Baseball programmes, and special events, including natural turf, infield skins, base paths, mounds, home plates, bullpens, warning tracks Practice areas, and batting cages, consistent with Major League Baseball standards.
• Inspect fields and grounds; determine playability and field‑protection needs; coordinate configurations and timelines; and verify corrective work before use.
• Monitor the condition and safe operation of pitching machines, batting‑cage equipment, netting structures, and safety netting; coordinate inspections, repairs, replacements, and removal from service when necessary.
• Oversee the inspection, cleaning, grooming, decompaction, and infill management of outdoor and indoor synthetic turf surfaces to maintain consistent appearance, performance, and safety.
• Develop and execute warm‑season turf programmes, including mowing, aerification, verticutting, topdressing, fertilisation, over seeding, sodding, moisture management, and weed, pest, and disease control.
• Manage landscape plans for trees, palms, bamboo, shrubs, plant beds, lawns, and common outdoor spaces, including routine bamboo maintenance and annual palm trimming, and oversee irrigation and drainage programming, inspections, maintenance, repair coordination, and water management.
• Lead adverse‑weather and field‑protection response, including tarp deployment, water removal, storm preparation, surface recovery, and post‑weather inspections.
• Manage the safe operation, inspection, maintenance, repair, and replacement planning of the golf‑cart fleet and grounds and facility equipment, and maintain appropriate inventories of field materials, chemicals, fuel, parts, tools, and supplies.
• Ensure fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides, and other regulated materials are purchased, stored, handled, applied, and documented in accordance with product labels, organisational procedures, and applicable law.
• Establish and enforce safety practices covering training, personal protective equipment, equipment operation, chemical handling, hazard communication, and applicable OSHA…