Part-time Gardener | Groundskeeper

St. Charles Community College (SCC) is located just west of St. Louis, in the heart of growing SCC, we have a passion for student success. We serve a growing diverse student population, and we are committed to increasing the diversity of our faculty and staff who will help prepare our students for a global society. Qualified candidates will have demonstrated success in serving diverse student populations.

SCC is seeking a Part-time Gardener | Groundskeeper who will be responsible for maintaining, caring for, and enhancing our campus grounds.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Cares for turf, including mowing, fertilizing, weed killing, aerating, seeding, and pest control.
• Maintains ornamentals and trees, including fertilizing, planting, watering, pest control, pruning, mulching, and weed control.
• Ensures proper appearance of campus grounds, including picking up trash, emptying parking lot trash containers, emptying trash containers at buildings, and cleaning parking lots and plaza areas.
• Performs routine service maintenance to grounds vehicles and equipment; performs routine maintenance to equipment; communicates problems with equipment to supervisor.
• Performs snow removal, including shoveling, plowing and brushing sidewalks and plaza areas parking areas and access roads, and application of snow removal chemicals.
• Cares for irrigation system, making necessary minor repairs and adjustments, communicates issues to supervisor.
• Cares for the fields at the Dardenne Creek campus.
• Performs holiday light installation and removal.
• Completes work orders in a timely fashion.
• Assists with maintenance needs as needed
• Assists housekeeping department with maintaining appearance of the campus.
• Assists with heavy lifting, loading, unloading, and moving heavy products / deliveries.
• Operates campus vehicles as needed.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS :