Position Objective

The grounds and landscape team at Clover Park Technical College work diligently to maintain our campus grounds, parking lots, and roadways to ensure a safe, attractive, and accessible outdoor environment for students, faculty, staff, and visitors. Your talents would contribute greatly to the beauty of our campuses.

As a full-time Grounds and Landscape Specialist, the primary functions and responsibilities are to maintain campus grounds, parking lots, and roadways to ensure a clean, safe, attractive, and accessible outdoor environment for students, faculty, staff, and visitors. You will work with a team committed to maintaining an already striking landscape. You will be working mostly outdoors in all types of weather and near operating machinery with loud noises and vibrations. Your duties may be performed on ladders or man lifts. Some indoor work includes planning, tool maintenance/cleaning, completing work assignments, and training.

The Grounds and Landscape Specialist performs a variety of tasks from the upkeep of the grounds, custodial, and operations all within the Facilities department. This crucial position has an important role in maintaining the college's health, appearance, and cleanliness standards.

Clover Park Technical College celebrates the many individuals that make up our community and embraces the opportunity to learn from both our differences and similarities. CPTC values equity and respect. We seek to create an environment of innovation and excellence as we focus on student success, lifelong learning, and social responsibility.

This position is an overtime-eligible, full-time position.

This position has been designated as a bargaining unit position represented by the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 302.

Duties and Tasks (Essential Functions)

Duty: Maintain campus grounds and landscape.
Tasks include:

• Cut and edge grass areas and sweep up excess clippings. Collect and dispose of all cuttings, clippings, and trash from all grounds areas in accordance with best environmental practices.
• Weed flower and shrub beds manually and or utilize appropriate chemical herbicides and pre-emergent objects.
• Prune shrubs and trees to promote proper growth and to discourage rot and disease.
• Perform proper operator maintenance on all hand tools, power tools, and, power equipment used to perform grounds maintenance tasks.
• Service and maintain the smoking shelters located throughout campus as well as exterior trash receptacles.

Duty: Maintain all hardscapes on campus.
Tasks include:

• Sweep, edge, restripe, control weeds, and fill cracks in sidewalks, roadways, and pathways.
• Clear ice and snow from designated entrances and sidewalks located around campus and dispense ice melt as needed in a timely fashion to provide a safe environment during ice and snow season.

Duty: Remove and replace trees, shrubs, and other plants as needed to ensure proper landscape and grounds maintenance and repair/maintain campus irrigation systems.
Tasks Include:

• Use hand tools and/or power equipment safely and effectively.
• Plan the movement or removal of vegetation to ensure proper and necessary tools and supplies are used to perform each task.
• Repair, replace, relocate, and maintain sprinkler heads, valves, and water lines to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the irrigation system.
• Understand the operations and programming of all irrigation system models on campus to improve the efficiency of the irrigation system.

Duty: Assist and support the operations of the maintenance and custodial staff when necessary.
Tasks Include:

• Assist the maintenance and/or custodial staff as needed.

Duty: Professional development, support, and training activities.
Tasks include:

• Attend facilities training as needed.
• Complete mandatory online and other pieces of training as required by Washington State or the College using a computer and various computer training programs.
• Assist the facilities team members as needed with work activities that promote a safe campus environment.
• Attend and actively participate in department meetings as required.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED.
• Minimum of two years of successful working experience in a landscape operation.
• Must possess a current Washington State Driver's License, vehicle insurance and a safe driving record.
• Able to read, write, and speak English fluently.
• Basic knowledge/experience using a computer.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification in Landscape Construction, Grounds Maintenance, and Irrigation Technology.
• Hold a current Public Operator's Pesticide License for weed, insect, and disease control.

All offers of employment at Clover Park Technical College are contingent upon successful completion of background checks which include criminal history. Information obtained from the background checks will not necessarily preclude employment but will be considered in determining the applicant's suitability and competence to perform in the specific position.

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Supplemental Information
At this time, Clover Park Technical College is not sponsoring H1-B Visas.

Land Acknowledgement Statement
We acknowledge that we are on the traditional land of the Puget Sound Salish peoples belonging to the Puyallup, Steilacoom, Nisqually, and Squaxin Island tribes and bands, and we honor and thank the traditional caretakers of this land. We value the tribes in our community and the impact that they continue to make on our college to this day. For more information about CPTC's commitment to indigenous tribes, please visit http://www.cptc.edu/diversity

Why we work for Washington State's Community and Technical Colleges
There are a host of reasons why we work at Clover Park Technical College, including the fact that we are part of a network called the State Board of Community and Technical Colleges (SBTC). We are proud to be part of an institution that believes in building strong people, families, and communities. Community and technical colleges help people grow their skills and talents so they can become global citizens. Faculty and staff make colleges come alive, giving each student a place in which they want to learn. You can participate in college events, clubs, and committees that engage you, while college guest speakers enlighten and inspire you.

More than a paycheck
Clover Park Technical College offers much more than a paycheck. There is an outstanding benefits package that is worth an additional value equivalent to about 30% of your base salary. We offer a full range of benefits that include multiple medical, dental, life, and disability coverage options for employees and eligible family members; choice of retirement and deferred compensation plans to save for the future; paid holidays, sick time, and vacation, reduced tuition, and employee discounts and memberships Employee Assistance Program and more.

Our History
Clover Park Technical College is located in Lakewood, Washington. Our college has a rich history of professional and technical education dating back to the 1940s, when Clover Park School District established a War Production program, training civilians as auto mechanics, aircraft-service mechanics, ship-fitters, welders, and blueprint readers. Now, CPTC offers more than forty programs in Aerospace, Advanced Manufacturing, Health Sciences, Human Services, Business, Hospitality, Science Technology, Engineering, Transportation, and Trades. CPTC has two campuses: Our main campus is located in Lakewood, WA and our South Hill Campus is located in Puyallup, WA. Learn more about Clover Park Technical College by visiting About CPTC.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Clover Park Technical College is an equal opportunity employer and committed to principles of diversity. We consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, marital status, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, genetic information, or status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam-era veteran.

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