Job Description:

• Schedules sport fields painting in accordance with all athletic association rules and game schedules.
• Schedules equipment for preventative maintenance and repair.
• Operates light equipment required to install, maintain, and repair grounds, landscaping, landscape forms and structures.
• Operates forklifts; front-end loaders; lift trucks; tractors with a variety of attachments including buckets, brushes, thatchers, aerators, seeders, landscape rakes and snowplows; tailgate trucks; skid loaders with attachments; forklifts; and other light equipment.
• May be assigned to snow removal for a significant portion of the work shift during winter months.
• Constructs, repairs and maintains irrigation and sprinkler systems, retaining walls, as well as other small structures, working with both wood and dry-stack materials.
• Trims bushes and trees interfering with athletic field fencing.
• Cleans gutters and rain spouts; installs memorial plaques at designated campus locations; sets up and dismantles fixtures and furniture for campus functions; and installs banners.
• Gives work direction to Recreation/Sports Specialists I and II.
• Uses equipment to prepare sections of ground for streets, walkways, and parking lots; to excavate flower and shrub beds and tree wells; to excavate and grade sites for construction of landscape forms and other small structures: to form ground for drainage areas; to remove snow and ice from parking lots, roads, and walkways; to load other vehicles; and to perform other landscape and ground maintenance and installation functions.
• Fastens attachments to trucks and tractors with wedge-pin and other hitches; connects hydraulic hoses, belts, mechanical linkages and/or power takeoff shafts to trucks and tractors to provide power to raise, lower and tilt attachments; and operates levers and foot pedals to maneuver attachments while driving vehicles.
• Performs additional duties as requested by supervisory personnel.

Short Job Description:

• High school diploma or equivalent from an accredited institution.
• Possess a Michigan Department of Agriculture Commercial Core Pesticide Applicator license in at least the categories right-of-way (category 6), turf (category 3a), and ornamental (category 3b).
• Possess a valid Michigan Commercial Driver's License (CDL) with air brakes
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  One of the top-100 public universities in the United States, Western Michigan University is committed to being learner centered, discovery driven and globally engaged. Founded in 1903, what was once Western Michigan College became Michigan's fourth public university in 1957. Since then, WMU has undergone dramatic growth in size and stature. Today, the University offers more than 240 academic programs to students pursuing degrees through the doctoral level. More than 20 percent of its 25,000 students are enrolled in graduate course work, studying in disciplines ranging from atomic physics and graph theory to medieval literature and blind rehabilitation. Of 101 graduate offerings available, 30 lead to a doctoral degree.

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