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Burlington, VT - USA

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Grounds & Maintenance Utility

Property Services

The Burlington School District believes a diverse and culturally proficient faculty and staff are pivotal to the creation of a strong learning and working environment that supports student achievement and success. BSD administrators lead inclusive school communities with our vision: Cultivating caring creative and courageous people. - Join the journey.

The Grounds/Maintenance Utility personnel is a non-exempt/hourly position that reports to the Director of Property Services. This position is a member of the AFSCME union under the Property Services Employees master Grounds/Maintenance Utility personnel at the Burlington School District work to provide a variety of maintenance and grounds services to meet the needs of the school district. The ideal candidate will be a team player with a positive attitude reliable transportation and good time management skills. Preferred qualities include knowledge of operating power tools and equipment.

In addition to great health benefits and paid time off this full-time position starts at $17.00/hr - $18.50 hr based on experience. Hours for 1st shift positions are primarily 6:00am - 2:30pm.

Hours and work location are subject to change at any time to reflect facility needs.

The Essential Functions of this position include:

  1. Operates snow plow and salt truck to remove ice and snow from roads and assigned areas which require early morning starts and extended hours which includes sanding/salting road and walkways.
  2. Shovel snow grounds maintenance and other duties as assigned related to facilities and roads maintenance.
  3. Operates a variety of tools machinery and equipment and a variety of power and hand tools used in ground maintenance such as shovel rakes ax brooms and forks leaf blowers and other tools.
  4. Operates commercial ground equipment such as dump trucks tractor front end loader zero turn mowers snow blowers chainsaws and other equipment.
  5. Mow and edge lawns weed maintain flower and shrub gardening and mulch landscape beds
  6. Trim hedges shrubs and small trees remove dead damaged or unwanted trees or branches
  7. General maintenance and Athletic field maintenance.
  8. Follow all safety rules policies and regulations. Able to work independently with minimal supervision.
  9. Notifies the Director of Property Services of any safety or other issues that may require immediate corrective response.
  10. Maintains accountability in maintaining assigned tools and equipment.
  11. Performs other duties as requested by the Director of Property Services and/or his/her designee.

The required education and experience for this position include:

Education:

Minimum Required: High School Diploma or equivalent.

Experience:

Minimum required:

  1. Valid Vermont drivers license.
  2. Working English language skills.
  3. Relevant work experience.
  4. Demonstrated aptitude and competence for assigned responsibilities above.

Knowledge Skills And Abilities (see highlighted bullet):

  • Working knowledge:Sufficient familiarity with the subject to know basic principles and terminology and to understand and solve simple problems.
  • General knowledge:Sufficient knowledge of a field to perform most work in normal situations. The work calls for comprehension of standard situations and includes knowledge of most of the significant aspects of the subject.
  • Thorough knowledge:Advanced knowledge of the subject matter. The work calls for sufficient comprehension of the subject area to solve unusual as well as common work problems to be able to advise on technical matters and to serve as a resource on the subject for others in the organization.
  • Comprehensive knowledge:Requires complete mastery and understanding of the subject. This term should be used sparingly and only for unusually exacting or responsible positions required to originate hypotheses concepts or approaches.

List Specific Skills And/Or Abilities Required:

  1. Ability to operate equipment and machinery requiring multiple conditions and making multiple complex and rapid adjustments
  2. Ability to coordinate eyes hands feet and limbs in performing highly skilled movements
  3. Ability to use and care for building service equipment and supplies according to written and oral instructions.
  4. Ability to read and write at an acceptable level.
  5. Ability to communicate courteously efficiently and effectively with a variety of individuals.
  6. Ability to adapt to changing work priorities meet deadlines and schedules.
  7. Ability to perform work requiring moderate to heavy labor.

Equal Opportunity:The Burlington School District provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

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