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Title: Grounds Maintenance Worker - Part Time

Division: Finance and Administration

Department: Facility Operations and Planning

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Salary Range: Grade 7: $16.02/hour

Position Summary

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

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. Working knowledge of the care of trees, turf, and plants using grounds related machinery. This calls for the operation of trucks, tractors, and powered machines as well as hand tools.
  
  
• 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. Plants and prunes trees and shrubs.
  
  
• Collects and removes trash and debris.
  
  
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Knowledge and Skills

• High school diploma or GED required.
  
  
• One year experience in grounds keeping including methods used in planting, cultivation, pruning, and caring for plants, shrubs, flowers, or turf required.
  
  
• Operation of ground maintenance equipment including motorized equipment and hand tools, and knowledge of routine equipment and methods required.
  
  
• Valid driver’s license required.
  
  Some operation of computers and email software.

Preferred Knowledge and Skills

Agricultural background and high mechanical aptitude preferred.

Experience with tractors and trucks.

Regular Work Hours/Travel Requirements

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.

Pre-Employment Screening

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

Authorization to Work in the United States

USI typically 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