Position Summary

The University of Southern Indiana is accepting applications for Grounds Maintenance Worker.

Perform preventive maintenance and general upkeep of landscaped and turfed areas; roads and walkways; parking lots; lakes, streams, and watersheds; playing fields and recreational facilities; and minor construction related thereto.

Duties/Responsibilities 

• Performs semi skilled landscaping, grounds maintenance, and roads maintenance tasks in a multi building University complex. This is semi skilled labor calling for a working knowledge of the care of trees, turf, and plants together with some knowledge of maintenance of roads, outdoor facilities, and playing fields using grounds related machinery. This is semi skilled labor calling for operation of trucks, tractors, and powered machines as well as hand tools. All work is directed and inspected by Grounds Maintenance Workers III and Supervisors.
  
  
• Uses vehicles, tractors, machinery, and hand tools to do seeding, sodding, aerating, weeding, fertilizing, mowing, and trimming turfed and planted areas.
  
  
• Assists a certified grounds maintenance worker in applying chemicals, pesticides, and herbicides to trees, shrubs and turf.
  
  
• Operates machines and uses hand tools to maintain and develop outdoor facilities to include playing fields, shelter houses, fences, picnic areas, campgrounds, recreation facilities, fishing areas, nature trails, and fences.
  
  
• Plants and prunes trees and shrubs.
  
  
• Cleans and maintains vehicles and equipment.
  
  
• Uses hand tools to maintain and develop outdoor facilities to include playing fields, shelter houses, picnic areas, campgrounds, recreation facilities, fishing areas, nature trails, and fences.
  
  
• Maintains roads, walkways, parking lots, and loading docks to include minor paving, patching, grading, ditching, and snow removal.
  
  
• Collects and removes trash and debris.
  
  
• Cleans and maintains vehicles and equipment.
  
  
• Makes outdoor set ups for special events.
  
  
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Knowledge and Skills

• High school diploma/GED.
  
  
• Valid driver’s license.

Preferred Knowledge and Skills

• One year of experience in grounds keeping including methods used in planting, cultivation, pruning, and caring for plants, shrubs, flowers, and turf.
  
  
• Operation of ground maintenance equipment including motorized equipment and hand tools and knowledge of routine equipment and methods.
  
  
• Agricultural background and high mechanical aptitude.
  
  
• Experience with tractors and trucks.
  
  
• Knowledge of microcomputers, word processing, spreadsheet, and electronic mail software.

About USI           

The University of Southern Indiana is a public higher education institution located on a beautiful 1,400-acre campus in Evansville, IN. We offer employees exceptional benefits! Benefits for this position include:

• Affordable medical, dental, vision, life and short term and long-term disability insurance plans.
• Retirement plan where the University makes the total contribution equivalent to 7% of annual salary.
• Full tuition fee waiver for employees/75% for spouses and dependent children.
• Accrue up to 10 paid vacation days per fiscal year – accrual increases after 4, 7, and 11 years of service

For more information about the benefits that USI offers, please visit www.usi.edu/hr/benefits.

Search Committee Chair:

If you have questions about the open position, please contact Hannah Perigo at 812-465-7115, or hcperigo@usi.edu

Pre-Employment Screening

A background check will be required for employment in this position.

Authorization to Work in the United States

USI will not sponsor an employment-related visa for this position.

Interview Accommodations

Persons with disabilities requiring accommodations in the application and interview process please contact the manager of Employment at mcweinzapf@usi.edu or (812) 464-1840. Contacting the manager of Employment is intended for use in seeking disability-related accommodations only. For general applicant inquiries, contact Human Resources at HumanRes@usi.edu or (812) 464-1815.

EEO Statement

USI is an Equal Opportunity Employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.