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Denton, Texas, United States
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Facilities/Maintenance/Custodial
The Facilities Department at the University of North Texas is seeking to hire a Lead Groundskeeper to join our team.
Responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to:
*Works under the direction of Grounds Supervisor to apply herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers to the campus grounds and sports fields.
*Operates and performs preventative maintenance on equipment such as tractors, spreaders, aerators, sprayers, and other landscape related equipment, for grounds and sports fields.
*Assists with troubleshooting plant health care issues.
*Assists with agronomy product inventory management and storage in accordance with TDA guidelines and regulations.
*Responsible for daily recordkeeping of agronomy applications in compliance with TDA requirements.
*Assists crew leader to ensure all safety and proper horticultural practices are followed.
*Takes proactive measures in addressing problem areas, including making plans, asking for assistance from other teams, and reporting to Crew Leader, Supervisors, or Managers.
*Ensures that all required paperwork is completed in a timely manner, including labor reports, daily completion reports, mileage forms, and others as required.
*Helps Crew Leader ensure that crew members properly follows all break times, lunch times, and work schedules.
*Helps train and supervise new and inexperienced crew members including students.
*Works with crew to ensure all assigned areas and tasks are completed properly and according to the schedule.
*Leads crews or projects as assigned.
*Participates in mowing, trimming, edging, hand weeding, digging, planting, pruning, trash detail, and all other mow and landscape related tasks.
*Participates in inclement weather cleanup including snow, ice, storm events.
*Other duties as assigned.
**This position is considered to be essential personnel, and may require working overtime, which could include nights and weekends as needed.