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Plans, develops, prioritizes, and manages efficient, and economical grounds maintenance tasks in accord with the seasonal calendar, the University calendar, and with current weather conditions to assure that ascertained levels of appearance, plant health, cleanliness, and public safety are attained on a daily basis.

Survey sites and assist in actual project layout. Provide specific plant care, shrubs and trees, to include arbor work and soil improvement. Mow grass areas. Maintain flower beds. Propagate plants. Trim tree branches. Monitor details of a project area and complete work assignments on projects. Operate heavy and light landscape equipment. Remove snow and ice. Apply sand, salt, and ice melt. Other duties as assigned.

Supervise grounds staff and manage grounds resources; Human Resources: Responsible for hiring, training, retaining staff, motivating subordinates; delegation of duties; effective use of human resources, EEO and AA. Fiscal management: Operate within authorized budget; evaluate fiscal needs, establishing priority spending, creating effective cost controls; generally managing the fiscal resources in a prudent manner.

Provide leadership to subordinates in planning, establishing and maintaining the highest achievable grounds programs commensurate with the resources made available.

Coordinates training and quality assurance needs with others in Facilities Management and Planning.

Oversee and provide initial orientation and ongoing training on departmental operations, policies, plant care, basic irrigation practices, etc. Assign, inspect and evaluate work, providing regular feedback with coaching and praise. Communicate and enforce policies, practices and standards. Monitor and enforce attendance. Provide day-to-day communications with both formal and informal feedback and coaching on an ongoing basis. Sign and approve workgroup time entry. Guides, trains, and gives technical assistance to employees engaged in daily grounds maintenance tasks and projects, and inspects completed assignments to ensure that satisfactory work quality operating procedures, efficiency, progress, methods and practices, safety, and other established standards and requirements are satisfactorily met and maintained.

Establishes and maintains direct personal contact with a wide spectrum of University community members affected and/or concerned with the quality, safety and appearance of the exterior Campus or other property. Consults with these clients with regard to concerns about maintenance frequencies, standards, appearance, disturbance, etc.

Coordinates, plans and develops grounds related work activities and projects with other campus departments and services.

Maintain knowledge of federal, state and local laws and ordinances involving chemical usage, tree care and safety requirements.

Make personnel recommendations within the grounds crew including staffing levels, hiring and development of priorities and standards for workgroup and work area. Provide annual evaluations of grounds staff.

Establishes and maintains a system of records to include a correspondence file, a project file, a technical update file, equipment history and preventive maintenance file, and a personnel file to include attendance and training history. Participates in establishing and maintaining a task-related grounds maintenance inventory and maintains appropriate records. Participates in the Department computerized work management system, and utilizes pertinent management reports to schedule, evaluate and improve plant health, general landscape appearance and work performance.

For this position, regular and reliable attendance is an essential job function.

This position is considered essential personnel based on job responsibilities. In the event of a campus incident, this position may be required to report to work, even during periods when the campus is closed, due to its essential nature.

Due to business necessity, this position may be required to perform tasks outside of typical job requirements at the supervisor#s discretion.

Requires the ability to apply, integrate and communicate extensive theoretical information within a recognized professional field. Facilitates and/or establishes the achievement of functional area objectives. Requires knowledge of all related functional areas. May require the operation of highly complex equipment/tools.

Decisions/problem resolutions require synthesis/analysis in the use of theories and accepted principles. Programs/projects are governed by broad objectives, policies and/or theories. Requires the use of creativity in dealing with unprecedented activities.

Actions and decisions in this job have significant impact to the short-term performance of the Program/Team and exert an impact to its long-term success. The job exerts a considerable impact on decisions and final results typically affecting either an entire functional area or a major university activity; and may have unique accountability for financial and program or project objectives. Errors effect business operations, services and other individuals which may require special interventions to correct.

Regular contact that involves exchanging advice and opinions as well as occasionally conveying conceptual ideas of a critical and/or long-range nature. Requires the use of judgment, timing, and persuasion to gain cooperation in the face of differences of opinion or controversy.

This position exercises direct supervision over seven full time staff and part time student workers.

Operation of a computer mouse with their dominant hand. (Usually right).