Job Details

Position Type:
Maintenance/Custodial/Purchasing/Grounds Maintenance

Date Posted:
10/17/2024

Location:
610-Facilities

Date Available:
24-25 School YearQualifications:

• Minimum requirement is a high school diploma or equivalent
• Training and/or experience in grounds keeping, sports fields, and landscaping, required
• Ability to lift a minimum of 50 lbs.
• Ability to work in all weather conditions
• Ability to reach, bend, stoop and push frequently. All duties require moderate to, at times, heavy physical exercise and exertion
• Ability to schedule mowing, fertilizing, verticutting, and fungus control for all district properties, preferred
• Ability to schedule irrigation controls and knowledge of how long to utilize, preferred

Fair Labor Standards Act Status: Exempt

Reports To:
Facilities Supervisor- Maintenance Operations

Job Goal:
To provide all students with a physical learning environment that is safe, clean, attractive, and smooth functioning.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Assign work for all grounds personnel
• Oversee work performed by grounds personnel

• Mows, seeds, and fertilizes the grounds at district locations
• Transplants, trims, and cares for shrubbery at district locations
• Coordinates and removes snow and ice on sidewalks and asphalt within the district
• Installs and repairs playground equipment
• Maintains and repairs all equipment used in the care of the district grounds and/or plants
• Delivers school supplies or equipment to district sites as needed
• Keeps the warehouse/garage area clean and in safe operating condition
• Constructs, forms, and pours concrete for sidewalks or repairs
• Assists the maintenance staff as needed
• Position requires being "on-call" during evenings, weekends, and holidays for any emergencies
• Other duties as assigned

Terms of Employment:
This is a 12 month position, the salary and work year will be established annually by the Board of Education.

Required Testing:
Post offer employment medical physical exam and essential functions test (EFT) required.

Work Environment/conditions:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works outdoors with significant temperature variations with exposure to hot and cold environments and potential risk to injury and/or illness. The employee will work near, or with, moving mechanical equipment. The employee may also occasionally work with cleaning chemicals. The noise level of the work environment is usually moderate, but occasionally can be loud. Generally the job requires 5 % sitting, 50% standing, and 45% walking.

Physical Demands:

• The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers, and talk and hear.
• The employee is frequently required to reach, bend, squat/crouch, stoop, and kneel.
• The employee is frequently required to climb up and down secured ladder.
• The employee must frequently lift, carry, push, or move up to 50 pounds.
• The employee will frequently push or pull items such as, but not limited to, carts with food items and/or equipment that can weigh up to 50 pounds or more.
• The employee is frequently required to shovel.

Evaluation:
Performance of this job will be evaluated by the immediate supervisor, using the Independence School District Facilities Evaluation.