"Athletic Grounds Technician"

Job Summary

Help keep our game-day fields looking championship-ready—join our Grounds Crew today! Auburn Athletics is thrilled to kick off the search for an Athletic Grounds Technician to provide field maintenance and landscaping services for athletic fields and landscaped areas around athletic facilities! This individual prepares university fields for athletic events, ensuring that fields are safe and consistent for collegiate competition standards.

Essential Functions

• Performs a variety of technical field and landscape related duties to include mowing, topdressing, overseeding, vertical mowing, aerifying, installing sod, pruning, planting shrubs, fertilizing, as well as distribution of chemical applications such as herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides.
• Paints, marks, and oversees field layouts on natural and synthetic turf, ensuring adherence to relevant regulations, guidelines, and standards for SEC and NCAA Division I Athletics fields.
• Performs maintenance on small and large equipment for the functions of maintaining turf and landscaping for the campus athletic facilities.
• Identifies plant diseases, insect damage, weather related turf and landscaping damages, and/or other damages of athletic properties to apply corrective measures and treatment. Recommends, applies, documents, and maintains the appropriate information regarding equipment, chemical usage, applications, operations, and maintenance procedures.
• Assists in set-up, take-down, operations, oversight, and customer service of events hosted by Auburn Athletics.
• Ensures safety of guests and student athletes by maintaining cleanliness and security of all fields, structures, walkway/sidewalks, curbs, driveways, and parking lots, etc., within responsible area.
• Inspects, identifies, and/or repairs irrigation systems on athletic field and landscaped areas.
• Assists in the management of inventory and proper storage of tools, equipment, and supplies for turf and landscaping needs.
• Complies with all applicable National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and Southeastern Conference (SEC) regulations in the performance of job duties.
• Must be able to work nights and weekends as needed.
• Performs related duties as assigned by supervisor.

Why Work at Auburn?

• Life-Changing Impact: Our work changes lives through research, instruction, and outreach, making a lasting impact on our students, our communities, and the world.
• Culture of Excellence: We are committed to leveraging our strengths, resources, collaboration, and innovation as a top employer in higher education.
• We’re Here for You: Auburn offers generous benefits, educational opportunities, and a culture of support and work/life balance.
• Sweet Home Alabama: The Auburn/Opelika area offers southern charm, vibrant downtown scenes, top-ranked schools, and easy access to Atlanta, Birmingham, and the Gulf of Mexico beaches.
• A Place for Everyone: Auburn is committed to fostering an environment where all faculty, staff, and students are welcomed, valued, respected, and engaged.

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent
• 2 years of experience in turf and landscape related to athletic fields and grounds
• Minimum Skills and Abilities: General knowledge of soils and turf grass management; Knowledge of pesticides and fertilizers; Ability to troubleshoot and perform general maintenance on equipment; Ability to understand and use hand tools, climb ladders, operate mowers, tractors, fork lifts, aerifiers, topdressers, and vertical mowers; Ability to use computers with general knowledge of using spreadsheet software for logging applications and inventory management

Salary Range

$17.10/hour - $25.65/hour

Working Hours

7:45a - 4:45p, M-F, nights and weekends as needed

Location

Auburn, Alabama, United States