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Position Title Gardener I (2 part-time positions)
Recruitment Start Date 04/14/2025
Recruitment End Date 05/13/2025
Open Until Filled
First Consideration Date
Salary Range 25
Pay Rate $1,967.09 - $2,636.09 per month / $23.16 - $31.04 per hour
FLSA Status Non-Exempt

Benefits
The District provides prorated vacation, sick leave, and holidays.

General Description/Summary

Performs a variety of work involving grounds and landscape maintenance of public access grounds, gardens, and sports fields.

Minimum Qualifications/Education and Experience

- A high school diploma, or the equivalent, and one year of gardening/grounds experience.

Preferred Qualifications

- Demonstrates sensitivity to, understanding of, and ability to work with the diverse academic, socioeconomic, ethnic, religious, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and cultural backgrounds of community college students, faculty, and staff; and successfully fosters and supports an inclusive educational and work environment.

Licenses and Certificates

- Requires a valid driver's license.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

- Mows, edges, aerates, and re-seeds lawns. Trims shrubs, hedges, and trees. Hoes weeds and rakes lawns. Operates and cleans power riding lawn mowers, power blowers, common trucks, and other motorized equipment requiring similar skill.
- Assists with landscaping projects. Constructs and contours raised beds, gardens, and drainage areas.
- Plants and cultivates trees, grass, flowers, and shrubs. Applies fertilizer as needed. Spades and otherwise prepares grounds for planting.
- Removes weeds, blows, rakes, and removes trash and debris from walkways, culverts, stairways, roadways, planters, and parking. Maintains in-ground drains and culverts.
- Cleans fields and facilities following events. Performs general grounds clean-up including picking up paper and trash on grounds areas. Performs building maintenance and cleaning duties of athletic facilities.
- Assists with construction and repair of irrigation systems. Digs trenches, unloads and relocates materials, and cleans tools and equipment.
- Assists with preparation of sports fields. Mows, grooms, paints, and lines athletic and public use play fields to comply with pre-set dimensions.
- Performs other duties as assigned that support the overall objective of the position.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

- Requires a basic knowledge and understanding of the procedures, methods and techniques of grounds and landscape maintenance.
- Must understand the procedures used in the proper application of fertilizers and other additives.
- Requires a basic knowledge of routine operation and maintenance of sprinkler irrigation systems.
- Requires sufficient communication skills to interact with co-workers, staff, and students.
- Requires sufficient arithmetic skills to calculate weights, proportions, and sums.
- Requires the ability to perform all of the essential duties of the position.
- Requires the ability to operate and service common grounds and landscape maintenance tools, equipment and vehicles including, but not limited to power riding lawn mowers, power blowers, and light duty trucks.
- Must be able to calculate fertilizer application amounts and apply them in a safe manner.
- Requires the ability to identify common plant, insect and nutrient deficiencies.

Physical Abilities

- Requires the ability to stand for extended periods of time, walk up to 400 yards, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to heavy weights of up to 75 pounds on a regular basis.
- Requires the ability to push, pull, and guide materials over 75 pounds.
- Requires the ability to climb (e.g. ladders), stoop, kneel, and crouch on a regular basis.
- Requires sufficient hand-eye coordination, hand and finger dexterity including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to operate common grounds equipment and read instructions and safety information. Requires auditory ability to hear machinery sounds and alarms.
- Requires near and far visual acuity to read printed materials and observe grounds objects.
- Requires speaking ability to carry on ordinary conversations.
- Requires the ability to work in extreme temperature conditions.

Working Condition

- Work is performed mostly outdoors where significant health and safety considerations exist from physical labor and working with machinery.

Department Facilities and Construction - Grounds
Job Category Classified
Assignment Part-Time
Percentage of Time 49%
Months per Year 12 months
Work Days per Week M-F
Work Schedule per Day M-F 6:00 am - 9:54 am
Work Shift Days
Bargaining Unit Classified

Citrus College Diversity Statement

CITRUS COLLEGE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
It is the policy of Citrus College to not discriminate against and to encourage a diversity of applicants based on national origin, religion, age, sex or gender, race, color, medical condition, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, use of family and medical care leave, genetic information, military or veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, or because they are perceived to have one or more of the preceding characteristics, or based on association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLICANTS:

Applications are considered legal documents, and as such, all areas of the application must be completed, or your application packet will be considered incomplete and will not be moved forward. While it may be appropriate in some areas of your application to use "NA" (not applicable), do not use terms such as "see resume" or "see attached". When listing your work experience, please specify the beginning and end dates for each job you held and describe your experience.

Applicants are responsible for ensuring that all required documents, and those additional documents you choose to include, are attached BEFORE clicking the "Finished Attaching Documents" button and confirming. It is advisable to attach "Optional" documents first, and then "Required" documents once you are ready to click on the "Finished Attaching Documents" button and confirming.

Application and Supplemental Questionnaire must be complete. A resume will not substitute for a fully completed employment application and supplemental questionnaire. Incomplete applications will be rejected. When listing your work experience, please specify the beginning and end dates for each job you held and describe your experience.

Additional documents CANNOT be added to your electronic application packet once you click on "Finished Attaching Documents" and receive your confirmation number; so, please be sure you have all documents you will upload handy and in an electronic format. THE APPLICANT TRACKING SYSTEM WILL NOT ACCEPT DOCUMENTS LARGER THAN 2MB. IF YOUR DOCUMENTS DO NOT UPLOAD, PLEASE RESIZE/COMPRESS THE FILE. If you do not have all your documents handy at the time you are applying for the position, we advise you to click on "Finish Attaching Documents Later". Be sure, however, to finish attaching your documents BEFORE the close or first consideration date for the position. Please remember, you will NOT be able to attach additional documents after you have selected "Finished Attaching Documents" and have received a confirmation number, and you will not be able to apply for a position after the position has closed.

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Selection Process

- A selection committee will review application packages of those candidates who have met the minimum qualifications for this position and will select a limited number of qualified candidates for an interview.
- Each candidate may be asked to complete a writing prompt just prior to the interview.
- Travel costs must be borne by the applicant.
- If selected as a finalist, the candidate permits the District to contact current and former employer(s) to investigate employment history.

Quick Link https://employment.citruscollege.edu/postings/1201





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