Groundskeeper

RESPONSIBILITIES
Job Specific Competencies:

• Provides grounds maintenance in all seasons.
• Maintains all vegetative growth.
• Keeps JCMG grounds picked-up and clean.
• Operates and performs basic maintenance on outside equipment.
• Assists in maintaining a safe work environment.

JCMG Core Competencies:

• Strives for continuous quality improvement.
• Participates in educational experiences designed to maintain and/or improve professional competence.
• Maintains high work ethic standards.
• Provides quality customer service to staff, patients and visitors at all times.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education:

• High School Education or GED

Experience:

• One year as a groundskeeper

Certification/License:

• Pesticide applicator's license or ability to successfully complete requirements for license during probationary period
• Valid MO driver's License, without any major violation within the past 5 years.

Knowledge/skills/Abilities:

• Ability to manage time effectively and set priorities
• Knowledge of grounds maintenance (e.g., applying sprays, planting, pruning, etc.)
• Skilled in operating, maintaining, and repairing various types of grounds maintenance equipment and tools (e.g., mower, tractor, chain saw, sod cutter, snow blower, etc.)
• Ability to demonstrate physical dexterity and to lift 100 pounds
• Skilled in using hand and power tools
• Ability to read (e.g., product labels, updates of pesticide regulations), write (e.g., work orders), and accurately follow oral, written, and graphic instructions
• Ability to perform basic mathematics (e.g., add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers, fractions, and decimals, and to calculate percentages).
• Knowledge of appropriate safety practices

WORK ENVIRONMENT
Works primarily outdoors; exposed to variable temperatures and weather conditions, dirt, dust, fumes, odors, chemicals, loud equipment noise, and potentially dangerous equipment (e.g., mower, tractor); requires considerable physical exertion to include frequent lifting of up to 100 pounds (e.g., fertilizer, trees) and extended periods of kneeling, stooping, standing, and walking; may work varied hours and shifts to include early mornings or evenings; requires some in town travel.

BENEFITS

• Health insurance & employer paid short- and long-term disability
• Generous PTO policy, beginning at 148-hours annually
• 56 hours paid Holiday Leave
• Employer Retirement Plan (401K) with employer match
• Tuition reimbursement and other professional advancements, including a Medical Assistant training program