Grounds Maintenance Worker (Temporary)

Grounds Maintenance Worker (Temporary)

Ohlone College

Salary: $25.67 - $28.30 Hourly
Job Type: Temporary
Division: Administrative Services
Opening Date: 03/10/2026
Location: Fremont Campus and/or Newark Center
Job Number: 202300180
Department: Administrative Services
Bargaining Unit: N/A

Under the direction of the Supervisor, this position is responsible for providing groundskeeping duties on all District grounds. The position operates a variety of grounds keeping equipment to provide basic groundskeeping services.

This is a temporary substitute position, limited to a maximum of 165 working days within a fiscal year.
If you need assistance completing the application, contact Christina Caratachea to schedule an appointment at 510-659-7354 or ccaratachea@ohlone.edu.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Mows lawns, athletic fields, and other turf areas.
2. Edges fields and walkways.
3. Cuts down trees and bushes as required.
4. Trims trees, bushes and plants.
5. Inspects irrigation systems by checking clocks, sprinkler heads, valves, and pipes to identify leaks, conducts maintenance, and performs repairs.
6. Cultivates flowers, trees, grass and shrubs by performing planting activities such as, but not limited to, pruning, fertilizing, irrigating, and weeding.
7. Cleans general grounds such as, but not limited to, parking lots, athletic fields, lawns by raking leaves, picking up litter, and sweep litter from walkways and driveways.
8. Ensure that grounds equipment such as, but not limited to, mowers, chainsaws edgers, blowers, power pressure sprayers, and gardening tools is in safe operating conditions.
9. Removes pool covers.
10. Empties waste receptacles outside buildings and around campus.
11. Reports any issues and discrepancies to the Senior Grounds Maintenance Worker or appropriate personnel.
12. Effectively engage and support historically minoritized groups by addressing issues of equity and improving culturally responsive service-oriented practices.
13. Performs related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Knowledge:

1. Best practices and techniques of landscaping/grounds keeping.
2. Powered equipment such as, but not limited to, mowers, tractors, chainsaws, and pruning saws.
3. Common hand tools used in grounds keeping such as, but not limited to, shears, pruners, axes, shovels, and rakes.
4. Fertilizers, herbicides, and insecticides.
5. Irrigation methods and systems.
6. Artificial turf fields.
7. Safety practices in handling grounds keeping equipment

Skills:

1. Apply knowledge of landscaping best practices and techniques to ensure that day to day duties are performed under accepted practices.
2. Apply knowledge of herbicides and insecticides to control the growth of undesirable vegetation and pests.
3. Apply knowledge of fertilizer to ensure that successful growth of plants, flowers, and grass.
4. Apply knowledge of powered equipment and common grounds keeping hand tools to mow lawns, remove unwanted items, edge walkways, clean groundskeeping areas, trim trees and bushes, and maintain groundskeeping areas.
5. Apply knowledge of irrigation methods and systems to adjust the amount of water consumption and prevent waste.
6. Apply knowledge of artificial turf fields to remove turf, replace cushing pads, disinfect the turf, and prevent the growth of bacteria.

Ability:

1. Effectively meet deadlines and ensure that landscaping duties are performed in a timely manner.
2. Effectively ensure that work is being performed to departmental standards.
3. Ensure the beautification of District grounds.
4. Effectively ensure the safe operation of powered equipment such as, but not limited to, mowers, tractors, chainsaws, edgers, pressure sprayers, and pruning saws.
5. Effectively ensure that all grounds keeping tool and equipment is in safe operating conditions.
6. Empty waste receptacles in a timely manner.
7. Effectively ensure the safe handling of herbicides and insecticides.
8. Communicate effectively, orally and in writing.
9. Develop and maintain effective relationships with District staff.

Minimum Qualifications

Any combination of 1 year of experience working in a related field.

AND

Must have evidence of responsiveness to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, as these factors relate to the need for equity-minded practices.

Desirable Qualifications

1. Bilingual and Biliterate.
2. Related specialized training(s)

Physical Demands

Activity	Frequently (weekly basis)	Few Times/Day (1-4 times per day; 1-2 hours)	Several Times per Day (5+ times per day; 3 or more hours)
Stooping			X
Kneeling			X
Crouching			X
Reaching			X
Standing			X
Walking			X
Pushing 76 lbs. - 100 lbs.		X
Pulling 76 lbs. - 100 lbs.		X
Lifting 76 lbs. - 100 lbs.		X
Communicate			X
Seeing			X
Seeing in color			X
Sitting	X
Finger Dexterity - Picks, pinches, works with fingers			X
Ability to effectively communicate			X
Ability to read material and interpret			X

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Environmental Elements/Safety Hazards

• Primarily outdoors.
• Extreme weather conditions.
• Dust and fumes through the operations of powered equipment.
• Herbicides and pesticides.
• Sharp equipment that is used for trimming, cutting, or hedging.

Required Application Materials

1. Resume/Curriculum Vitae.
2. A list of three (3) professional references including name, position, organization, phone number, email, and relationship to the applicant.

Salary Placement

Initial salary placement will be $25.67-$28.30 per hour and is determined by the education, experience, and qualifications the candidate brings to the position, internal equity, and the hiring department's fiscal resources.

To apply, please visit https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/ohlone/jobs/5266111/grounds-maintenance-worker-temporary