Responsibilities and Duties
Qualifications and Skills
Organization: Operations
Primary Location: Main Campus
Job Posting: Jul 10, 2025
- Performs preventive maintenance of assigned outdoor areas such as hardscapes area, sidewalks, roadways and lawns. Remove trash, dirt, and debris and transport to the appropriate disposal facility.
- Performs grounds maintenance activities including cultivating, planting, watering, fertilizing, weeding, mowing and/or pruning, in areas such as lawns, gardens, shrubs and trees. Assists in the maintenance of annual, perennial, and native plants, shrubs, ornamental grasses, annual rotations, and container displays. Install shrubs, trees, owers, and vegetation following detailed plans and supervised directions.
- Operates hand and power equipment such as mowers, weed trimmers, tillers, sweepers, snow blowers, edgers, shovels, spades, pruners, loppers, rakes, saws. Operates a variety of utility vehicles. Perform routine assembly, cleaning and maintenance of equipment as needed.
- Measures, mixes and applies fertilizer, herbicides, pesticides, and other chemicals following specific instructions
- Performs removal of snow and ice from assigned areas using hand and power snow removal equipment during hours of the day or night. Spread salt, sand, and deicers to prevent slipping.
- Assists in the maintenance and support of campus events, outdoor fields and athletic facilities.
Qualifications and Skills
- Ability to read, write, and perform arithmetic calculations; to follow oral and written instructions; to operate and perform minor maintenance to assigned hand and power tools and equipment; to perform work in, on, around, under and over trees, shrubs, and buildings and facilities; to work at heights up to 35 feet; to perform physical work requiring bending, stooping, reaching, carrying, and frequent heavy lifting; to work outdoors in adverse weather conditions; to wear and work in personal protective equipment.
- Valid Maryland Non-commercial Class C, or equivalent, driver's license required.
- Preferred: Basic gardening knowledge, plant, weed identification.
- Candidates selected for employment may be subject to medical inquiries and/or medical examinations to determine ability to perform the job.
Organization: Operations
Primary Location: Main Campus
Job Posting: Jul 10, 2025
Job ID: 484889379
Originally Posted on: 7/11/2025