Grounds Maintenance Attendant
About this role
Department
Facilities Operations - Administrative OfficeJob Family
Service - UnionVassar College is deeply committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees by promoting an environment of transparency and respect for differences. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds who meet the qualifications of a posting. If you need to request an accommodation to fully participate in the search process, please contact careers@vassar.edu.
Job Description
Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:00am - 3:30pm (40 hours per week)
Position Summary
Reporting to the Grounds Manager, the Grounds Maintenance Attendant is responsible for maintenance of the College landscaping, grounds and athletic fields, snow and ice removal and when assigned, to provide a safe and attractive environment. This position is considered essential.
Responsibilities
Maintain campus lawns
Remove snow/ice from walks, drive and parking lots.
Maintain athletic fields, natural and synthetic, using appropriate lawn care procedures including striping of playing surfaces, dragging of infields, mowing, irrigating, fertilizing.
Control weed growth manually or by application of pesticides, if licensed.
Maintain campus trees and shrubs.
Maintain planting beds, including annual flower rotations and displays.
Maintaining and operating landscape irrigation systems under supervision.
Perform parking lot and road repairs using hot and cold patches.
Utilize grounds maintenance equipment and tools including but not limited to: riding mowers, rototillers, lawn sweepers or skid steers, aerators, snow plow, tractors and salt spreaders.
Collect trash from all exterior trash receptacles and perform litter collection.
Wild life control as needed, if licensed.
Respond to after hour calls for snow/ice removal.
Other seasonal tasks connected to the maintenance of Vassar grounds, excluding all those job duties otherwise performed by other job classifications covered by the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Required knowledge, skills and abilities
Three (3) years of experience in the maintenance and care of grounds.
Must possess knowledge and technical skills required for the maintenance of landscaped surfaces.
Knowledge of, or demonstrated ability to learn, irrigation systems programming and operations.
Must possess and maintain a valid Driver's License.
Ability to communicate effectively in English, including understanding, speaking, reading and writing.
Willingness to work overtime as available. Overtime is assigned according to seniority guidelines;
Ability to lift 50 lbs.
Ability to stand for extended periods of time, lift, and shovel.
Preferred knowledge, skills and abilities
Five (5) years in the maintenance and care of grounds.
Knowledge of maintenance of athletic fields.
New York State Pesticide Applicators License Category 3A.
New York State Nuisance Wildlife Control Operator license.
Pay Rate
$25.56 per hour
Company at a glance
Formerly the Vassar College Art Gallery, we were the first art museum at a college or university that was part of the institution’s original plan. Today, the Loeb’s permanent collection includes over 22,000 works, comprised of paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, textiles, and glass and ceramic wares. We strive to be a catalyst for scholarly, creative, and social justice work by Vassar students and others. Our undertakings reflect a commitment to broaden, and amplify, the voices represented in the museum setting, and to ensure that the Loeb’s programs and practices have a positive impact on our communities.
IMPACT STATEMENT
By engaging with the Loeb’s collections and programs, individuals build capacity to make meaningful connections—intellectual, creative, emotional—through the visual arts across time, place, and cultures.
COMMITMENT TO DEAI
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College commits to Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion as core values across its culture, systems, and practices. We pledge to allocate resources (human and financial) to create and sustain a museum culture and program in which difference is celebrated. The Loeb can best serve its communities by examining critically its own history and systemic biases, and working continually to resist discrimination and present a variety of narratives. A fundamental shift in institutional ethos toward equity and inclusion enhances the Loeb’s mission to support the goals of the college.
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is to enhance and support the College’s goals of leadership, scholarship, and integrative learning. The Loeb achieves this through the preservation, documentation, interpretation, presentation, and development of its collections; and through a dynamic program of temporary exhibitions and educational activities aimed at diverse audiences.
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